Another Take

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Another Take
Another Take

After the photo stop and runbys were wrapped up at West Thornton the Mass Bay RRE's Lincoln Limited special was back on the move south to Meredith. This was the fifth spot I shot them headed back near MP 12.8 as measured from Plymouth. The train is approaching the Robins Nest Road crossing on the rare mileage middle section of track with old concrete B&M era posts and modern yellow signage (for winter time snowmobile use on the corridor when the railroad is shut down) littering the right of way. In the background can be seen the telltales and the the thru truss bridge over Hubbard Brook that they guard.

This head on view is nice in that it places the distracting pole line out of the way at left. However, this angle does not afford a view of the dramatic mountain backdrop like that prior shot....pick your poison I suppose!

PLLR 1590 in the lead is an EMD SW1001 blt. Nov. 1973 for the Reading as number 2618 it passed to Conrail and Norfolk Southern before being sold. It was repainted in 2021 from the bright CIT blue paint with white stripes its worn since coming to the Granite State in 2016. Immediately behind 1590 is first class parlor car 103, 'Determination' (built 1954 by Pullman for the Canadian National) which looks sharp in fresh new matching paint after wearing blue and yellow Bangor and Aroostook colors for over three decades dating from the days when Iron Road Railways owned the BAR.

Thornton, New Hampshire
Saturday May 18, 2024

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Taken on: May 18, 2024
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