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Title: |
The end is near |
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F-40 1016, stripped of anything useful, is the first of her class to go to the torch at Boston Engine Terminal. |
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3/29/2014 Upload Date: 2/20/2015 7:48:22 PM |
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Somerville, MA |
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David Hutchinson |
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MBTA 1016(F40PH) |
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868 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First to go |
Description: |
1016, having been out of service for several years, has become the first of her class to go to the torch. |
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4/21/2014 Upload Date: 5/20/2014 7:00:23 PM |
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Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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MBTA 1016(F40PH) |
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1402 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Not much left |
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Dawn at Boston Engine Terminal, F-40 1016 is reduced to a frame, some trucks, and a prime mover, there will be nothing left by this afternoon. |
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4/22/2014 Upload Date: 2/20/2015 7:48:57 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1016(F40PH) |
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1120 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Air Brake Test |
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The 1008 is hooked up to three former MARC GP-40's to provide air for required tests before they are set for interchange and sent back to their owner. |
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4/29/2014 Upload Date: 6/14/2014 8:24:19 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1008(F40PH) |
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475 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing the torch |
Description: |
HSP-46 2001 stands in stark contrast to war-weary F-40 1009. Inevitably, 1009 and her sisters will be disposed of as more HSP-46's arrive from the builder. |
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5/5/2014 Upload Date: 5/5/2014 8:33:07 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 2001(MP40PH-3C) MBTA 1009(F40PH) |
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834 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ready for the rush |
Description: |
1011 brings up the rear of a draft headed to Boston's North Station. |
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5/20/2014 Upload Date: 5/20/2014 7:06:25 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1011(F40PH) |
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406 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Out on the deadline |
Description: |
1014 occupies the deadline out in back at Boston Engine Terminal. With a blown piston and a large hole in her block, she'll never run again. |
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5/21/2014 Upload Date: 5/21/2014 6:26:07 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1014(F40PH) |
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562 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Resurrected |
Description: |
Down for two months with main generator problems, the 1003 should be patched up and back on the road next week. |
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5/31/2014 Upload Date: 6/1/2014 5:50:28 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1003(F40PH) |
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402 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Headin' East |
Description: |
Train #1109 passes through Prison Point Charlestown,Mass. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/2014 Upload Date: 6/1/2014 5:51:12 PM |
Location: |
Boston, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1005(F40PH) |
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293 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sunrise at B.E.T. |
Description: |
Sunrise finds the 1001 idling outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal. |
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6/3/2014 Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:24:18 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1001(F40PH) |
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301 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sunrise at B.E.T. |
Description: |
Sunrise finds the 1002 idling outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal. |
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6/3/2014 Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:24:46 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1002(F40PH) |
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367 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sunrise at B.E.T. |
Description: |
F-40's lined up outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal, reminiscent of a 1940's publicity pose. |
Photo Date: |
6/3/2014 Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:25:25 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1007(F40PH) MBTA 1002(F40PH) MBTA 1001(F40PH) |
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337 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Waiting her turn |
Description: |
1015 waits her turn for repairs at Boston Engine Terminal, hoping the mechanics can squeeze a few more miles out of her. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/2014 Upload Date: 6/8/2014 8:03:41 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1015(F40PH) |
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300 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
An old girl and her replacement |
Description: |
The old and the new share space out in front of the Diesel House at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/2014 Upload Date: 6/11/2014 7:47:40 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 2002(MP40PH-3C) MBTA 1015(F40PH) |
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422 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Headin' out on the road |
Description: |
Train #2309 is being readied for service in the S&I building at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/2014 Upload Date: 6/8/2014 8:05:04 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1007(F40PH) |
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215 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ready for the road |
Description: |
1007 is positioned in the layover yard at Boston Engine Terminal for a mid afternoon local. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/2014 Upload Date: 6/16/2014 7:29:56 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1007(F40PH) |
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233 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Inbound Arrival |
Description: |
Train #326 from Lowell rolls across the Charles River drawbridge and into North Station. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/2014 Upload Date: 6/16/2014 7:33:28 PM |
Location: |
Boston, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1013(F40PH) |
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351 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Move Over! |
Description: |
Brand new HSP-46 2005 almost seems to be setting her sights on disabled F-40 1009 at Boston Engine Terminal. The 1009, laid up with excessive lateral motion problems, will probably never run again. |
Photo Date: |
6/22/2014 Upload Date: 6/23/2014 7:29:04 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1009(F40PH) |
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602 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Afternoon Rush |
Description: |
The afternoon rush is in full swing at Boston Engine Terminal, as trainsets are serviced and set to the yard for movement over to North Station. |
Photo Date: |
6/23/2014 Upload Date: 6/23/2014 7:41:09 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1001(F40PH) MBTA 1010(F40PH) |
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439 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Another one bites the dust |
Description: |
MBTA 1000, the class leader, has been shoved out in the deadline at Boston Engine Terminal, in an ever growing collection of worn out F-40's. |
Photo Date: |
6/28/2014 Upload Date: 6/28/2014 6:23:01 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1000(F40PH) |
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516 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Waiting for repairs |
Description: |
Because of their age, the F-40's need almost daily repairs and constant attention, 1001-1012-1007 wait their turn in the repair shop at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
8/5/2014 Upload Date: 8/5/2014 6:44:29 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1001(F40PH) |
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353 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Off the deadline |
Description: |
With the onset of major problems with the new HSP-46 fleet, many F-40's once written off, have come back inside from the deadline. |
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12/27/2014 Upload Date: 12/27/2014 6:10:08 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1004(F40PH) |
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349 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Dead Line Grows Longer |
Description: |
An appropriately dreary winter day, finds sidelined F-40's beginning to pile up like the snow that surrounds them out in the back yard at Boston engine terminal. |
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1/28/2015 Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:04 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1009(F40PH) MBTA 1010(F40PH) |
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569 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Winter has not been kind |
Description: |
Time is running out for the aging F-40 fleet, some of them 36 years old, graduates of the EMD class of 1978, wait out an uncertain fate in the back yard at Boston Engine Terminal. |
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1/28/2015 Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:30 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1004(F40PH) |
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306 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Dead Storage |
Description: |
Even the recent rebuilds are beginning fall by the wayside and now join their sisters in the dead line in the back yard at Boston Engine terminal. |
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1/28/2015 Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:52 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1005(F40PH) |
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498 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
F-40 Graveyard |
Description: |
This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
3/2/2015 Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:54:43 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1004(F40PH) MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1017(F40PH) |
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372 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
F-40 Graveyard |
Description: |
This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
3/2/2015 Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:55:13 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1004(F40PH) |
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298 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
F-40 Graveyard |
Description: |
This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
3/2/2015 Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:55:41 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1010(F40PH) |
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251 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
F-40 Graveyard |
Description: |
This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
3/2/2015 Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:57:20 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1010(F40PH) MBTA 1017(F40PH) MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1004(F40PH) |
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440 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Going Away |
Description: |
Derelict F-40's 1017-1015-1008-1005 and 1011 are being air tested and readied to be shipped out to an un-disclosed destination. |
Photo Date: |
5/19/2015 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 6:20:23 AM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1017(F40PH) |
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630 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The deadline grows longer |
Description: |
Derelict F-40's 1006-1002-1001-1012, from MBTA's original order of 1978, await their fate at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 6/16/2015 9:32:10 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1006(F40PH) |
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442 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
The Dead Line Grows Longer |
Description: |
Derelict F-40's 1011-1008-1015-1005, from MBTA's original order of 1978, await their fate at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/2015 Upload Date: 6/16/2015 9:32:45 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1011(F40PH) |
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366 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Lucky 13 |
Description: |
F-40 1013 has the dubious distinction of being the last one standing, 330, her temporary replacement, is six years older. With the failure of the new HSP's to step up to the plate, these EMD veterens will have to soldier on. |
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7/1/2015 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 6:54:45 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1013(F40PH) SLC 330(F40PH) |
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853 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Parts Source |
Description: |
Out of service since late February, the 1004 is living out her last days as a parts souce out behind the Diesel Shop at Boston Engine Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/2015 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 6:56:32 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1004(F40PH) |
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571 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Movin' Out |
Description: |
MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future. |
Photo Date: |
7/6/2015 Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:12:25 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1009(F40PH) |
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751 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Class Unit |
Description: |
MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future. |
Photo Date: |
7/6/2015 Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:01 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1000(F40PH) |
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849 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Movin' Out |
Description: |
MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future. |
Photo Date: |
7/6/2015 Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:25 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1014(F40PH) |
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479 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Movin' Out |
Description: |
MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future. |
Photo Date: |
7/6/2015 Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:54 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1010(F40PH) |
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317 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BURP! |
Description: |
Now the later model F-40,s are starting to show their age, sometime in the early morning hours, 1051's turbo decided to spit up. |
Photo Date: |
9/27/2015 Upload Date: 10/3/2015 6:52:57 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1051(F40PH-2C) |
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364 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Here we go again |
Description: |
The second tragic meltdown of a later model F-40 in 2 weeks, this time, the 1069 blew oil all over the place at the height of rush hour at Boston's North Station. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/2015 Upload Date: 10/3/2015 6:53:32 PM |
Location: |
Somerville, MA |
Author: |
David Hutchinson |
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Locomotives: |
MBTA 1069(F40PH-2C) |
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404 Comments: 0 |
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