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BM 1500 RS-2 westbound on Peterboro Branch Local.

Photographed by Bruce Nelson, May 2, 1973.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Nelson, October 8, 2025.
Railroad: Boston & Maine.

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Wow.-engines that replaced steam and the small customer wayfreight. All gone now. Thanks for the "wayback" scene.

Posted by Ron DeFilippo on 2025-10-09 07:47:06


More outstanding stuff!

Posted by Alan Marshall on 2025-10-09 08:33:51


I second Brother DeFillippo's motion...a classic scene, timeless in the simplicity of an earlier time. Twenty years after the end of steam, these stalwarts continued to burble along.

Imagine....a clean-fired RS-2!

Posted by Brian Gilleran on 2025-10-09 09:25:18


This train is the Peterboro local on its RETURN trip passing eastbound by Fitchburg Tower. Fourth Iron on right with coinnection to the New Haven shown.

Posted by Bruce Nelson on 2025-10-10 09:22:27


Just awesome.

Posted by Arthur Dietrich on 2025-10-12 17:07:25


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