On a rainy December afternoon, Kris and I met my old friend Dan and his wife Mary at Palmer’s Steaming Tender for lunch.

We were seated by a window facing the Boston & Albany—today’s CSX’s Boston Line.

The rails were alive and freight trains were on the roll.

Some time after a very long westward manifest freight cleared the diamond (where CSX crossed New England Central at grade), a local freight arrived to work the yard with a set of three GP40-2s.

For more than 25 years these vintage EMD’s have be stalwarts on the Palmer local. I complimented the crew on their ‘antiques’, but they seemed unimpressed with the old diesels.

I made these images from our seat as the engines arrived.

More soon!

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