In early February, I was running a few last minute errands before my Trans-Atlantic journey.
Crossing the Boston & Albany on South Main Street in Palmer, Massachusetts, I saw a New England Central local approaching with an impressive cut of interchange.
In the lead was clean New England Central GP38-2 2048 in Genesee & Wyoming corporate paint. Although I’ve made countless hundreds of photographs from this location over the years, I won’t look a gift-horse in the mouth.
So for the sake of a couple of minutes detour, I made these images at CP83 using my Lumix LX7.
Tracking the Light posts every day.
Good Shot!! The former UP locomotive also looks pretty clean. A LOT cleaner than its brother and sister units that are still in the Uncle Pete’s fleet. Looks the P&W have been collecting those empties for a while unless business has really picked up in the the area. I assume they’re empties with only 2 units and what looks like at least 40-50 cars.
This photo brings back a lot of memories as I used to be in this area a lot having been a resident of the Springfield area until I moved West. Many trips to the “Triple Creek” (Three Rivers) area and up towards Beaver Lake and Ware. During my yearly pilgrimage I was just down the street East of this location off of Route 20 just past the B&A/NY Central/Penn Central/Conrail/CSX RR (did I miss any?) over pass to attend a car show.