Here are a couple videos I’ve captured over the last month or so. Pretty nice sound considering both were shot with an iPhone. Turn up the speakers and enjoy!!
July 22nd. Grafton & Upton (Massachusetts short line RR) shifting cars around in their Upton, MA yard. Power this day includes Precision Leasing #9619 GP40-2LW that arrived on the G&U earlier this year…and two G&U MP15AC’s (originally CSX)…
August 12th. CSX local freight departs the Grafton & Upton’s North Grafton, MA yard after dropping off loads and picking up empties. The conductor has just lined the switch for the train to re-enter the MBTA (CSX) eastbound main. The pair GP40-2’s (#6241 & #6216) wait for the gates to go down at Westboro Road, then accelerate through the crossing…
And here are a few still photos, all taken by me in my travels over the last month or so…
August 4th. PNLX #9619 shoves a cut of cars into the south end of the G&U North Grafton, MA yard...
August 12th. CSX local freight led by a pair of GP 40-2’s getting ready to depart the G&U North Grafton Yard. The engineer in the lead unit (barely visible behind the two tank cars in the first photo) is waiting for the conductor to radio confirmation that the switch has been lined for the train to re-enter the eastbound main…
August 17th. Pan Am Railways B40-8 #5972 idles in the South Fitchburg, MA yard. This is one of many locomotives that Pan Am has acquired from CSX and has obviously not made it through the paint shop yet to receive its blue and white Pan Am livery. It's stenciled "MEC" (for Maine Central) in white on the cab just below the road #...with black lines painted through the CSX markings on the nose and sides...
July 26th. A center cab switcher sits on a flatcar inside the Port of Davisville automobile unloading facility in North Kingstown, RI. Unfortunately I don’t know this little switcher’s origin…or whether it’s coming or going! There’s a short line RR named Seaview that serves the Port facility and the nearby Quonset Business Park. Maybe it belongs to them?
