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PB-100 and companion PB-99 were fast piggyback trains running between Chicago and Boston via the Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and Boston & Maine, using pooled diesels from all three roads. On its last leg into the B&M's East Cambridge piggyback terminal, eastbound PB-100 rolled past Gardner tower behind EL SD45s.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, November 15, 1969.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, February 18, 2017.
Railroad: Boston & Maine.

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Awesome photo of a pre-cursor to today's 22K intermodal train. Current 22K cutoff to availability schedule is around 68 hours. PB-100 was scheduled to run the EL from Chicago to Binghamton in 22 hours. I'm guessing the D&H / B&M portion of the trip to Boston would have been 12-16 hours? Add a few hours for loading and unloading pigs and Chicago cutoff to Boston availability would have been 42+/- hours, or more than a whole day less of transit time than today's 22K!

Posted by John Barlow on 2017-02-20 11:06:01

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