Working at Conway Scenic Railroad, I see former Maine Central GP38 252 almost every day.

My familiarity with 252, makes this image of sister locomotive 262 interesting to me today.

I exposed this on February 17, 1985 with with my father’s Leica M3 loaded Kodak Plus X. My friends and I had been following an eastward Boston & Maine freight symbol EDAY that was led by a GP18-GP9- GP18 combination.

Along the way, we found this eastward freight tied down without a crew. It was led by MEC 262. I don’t really remember that part of the day, and I can’t place this location. Somewhere I took notes, but most of my notes from January to October of 1985 are missing.

My guess is that this west of the passenger station in Ayer, Massachusetts, as I made a variety of photos in Ayer that day.

Back in 1985, a backlit Maine Central GP38 with its headlight off wasn’t worth a lot of my attention, but at least I made this image.

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