It is snowing on this December day - only 17 shopping days before Christmas. The Readville Shuttle, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train No. 763 drawn by F-40PH engine 1036, left track 11 at South Station at 2:30 p.m. The train stopped briefly near South Bay five minutes later for an employee stop. That trailer on the right is South Bay "Tower," and the diamonds crossing the loop track are just ahead of 763. A minute later it continued on, making station stops at Upham's Corner, Morton Street, and Fairmount. It arrived in Readville at 2:50 p.m. on the T's shortest commuter rail line.

Photographed by Leo King, December 8, 2000.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 2, 2004.
Railroad: MBTA.

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