Conrail's WAMI-3, a weeknight local peddler, will leave Middleboro, Mass., after making up its train and go to places like Myricks, Fall River and New Bedford. Eventually it will wind up here at Amtrak's Attleboro Tower, where it will get a restricting signal from this high board. The train will come out on track 4 going west, clear the home board on 4 while the 3rd trick op (often me, off the spare board) and shove east on 4 to Holden interlocking, about a mile away. The GE B-25 engines will then drop off, come west into the interlocking, and if there's no passenger traffic, head east on 2 to Holden, wait for the restricting signal that will allow him to enter 4 again, and, when he's ready, go east to Readville Yard. Sometimes, though, they made a left turn at Mansfield and went to Framingham Yard. The longest MI-3 I ever saw was about 80 cars, about six months before this photo was taken.

Photographed by Leo King, January 18, 1993.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 29, 2004.
Railroad: Amtrak/Northeast Corridor.

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