Snapshot - January 2020

Although it was warmer than most days and sunny I am not sure I would be venturing out in shorts. NECR SB is seen waiting at the diamond on Jan 24, 2020 with a large railfan contingent.

This months snapshot is a visit to Palmer, Mass. on Friday before the Springfield train show by Peter and I. We might have timed it right as the NECR SB was waiting at the diamond, the Mass Central is pulling a cut of car into the CSXT transfer yard with about 15-20 railfans hanging around. We missed the Mass Central heading to the transfer as we pulled into the parking lot but would see them again shortly. We realized quickly the NECR was waiting for a train to pass with railfans pointing in different directions. A headlight appeared within moments. It was a WB Amtrak that we saw. A not bad visit seeing three trains, two more than once in about 30 minutes sometime after 3pm...George Dutka

The WB Amtrak arrives only minutes after we got out of our car. It was impossible to take a picture without getting a railfan in the photo.

NECR heads past the home signal.

As NECR began to head over the diamond Mass Central came into the picture shoving a boxcar back by the station.

NECR on the diamond. I took this photo using my telephoto lens and had to quickly change it to record the view below. Glad it worked out.

The NECR train had a large group of rust bucks included that I would think are salt cars.