During the summer and fall of 1968, the Boston & Maine ran a conveyor belt of dedicated gravel trains between Bow, NH, and Revere, MA, bringing fill for what would have been the I-95 embankment across the Revere marshes that was then under construction. (The highway was never completed due to political opposition.) GP7 1561 and F7 4265 led a train of empties as they departed Somerville en route to Bow for another load.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, September 21, 1968.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, July 9, 2017.
Railroad: Boston & Maine.

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