Apr 1988 - Near Selkirk Yard - CR 6565 GE C30-7 Serial # 44554 Built 5/1984
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SEBO rolls over the top of the Berkshires headed for Beacon Park. Among the 66 cars of freight for the hub is a new/rebuilt Red Line car, seen behind the power.
This MBTA Red Line car is en route to Boston on BOSE, and will soon be taking the worlds smartest college kids to Harvard.
SESB rolls 67 cars past the Amtrak bus shelter at Pittsfield.
SESB rolls through Becket Mass on a day following a 12" snowfall. Didnt stop me!!
CR 6588-6552-6565
Conrail 6565 is on the point of SEFR at CP SK in Selkirk, NY 8/1997
More stuff at the west end of the yard. Hiding in the back is a straight SD40 with its days certainly numbered.
TV-9 continues around the horseshoe between MP 128 and MP 129.
TV-9 continues his uphill charge past the creeping TV-8B.
As we swing around to follow TV-8B, here comes westbound TV-9, blasting upgrade on track 1
ENG-712 crossing Depot Brook at Ballou's.
Fifteen minutes after SPSE, TV-9 charges up track 2 at Bancroft. Looks like the DS will be stabbing SPSE at CP 140 in Hinsdale to let TV-9 overtake him.
6565's reflective nose lettering lights up as it leads SESP through Bancroft in the late afternoon.
The engineer on MCSE-2 gives a thumbs up as the train passes a flanger sign near Fort Plain, NY
SENH splits the block signals on the ramp at the bottom of the west slope of Washington hill.