Ex-ADBF 4043 caboose now PNLX 4043 in action:
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I shared a photo of these a few months ago when these first showed up on the property, and now I finally got out to see them working. This is a special work train operated by Keolis for lesee McCourt Construction which is the general contractor for the MBTA engaged in burying the PTC wires that were initially installed above ground on a temporary pole line. This initial project is taking place along the Fitchburg Route mainline with the little train based out of Littleton at the Quarantine Track. On this day they were working between West Concord and Concord and are seen here paused on Main 2 at MP 20.1 in the curve just west of the depot and the Belknap St. crossing. The little four car train is led by a pair of leased locomotives dressed in pseudo Rio Grande paint and trailed by a former Central Vermont caboose as a bit of early fall color hints at what's to come behind them.
PNLX 2107 is a Wabtec/MPI MP20GP acquired from the Union Pacific where it was their UPY 2107. Rebuilt in August 2006 as a low emissions unit for service in Texas it was originally an EMD GP50 blt. Nov. 1980 as Missouri Pacific 3504. Coupled behind is PNLX 9619 is a GMDD GP40-2LW originally blt. Aug. 1975 for the CN with the same number.
The pretty little caboose (PNLX 4043) is lettered for Central Vermont Railway but I'm unsure if it was an original CV car or if it was former GTW 79056 as per online sources. It is a late model wide vision style built by International Car in Kenton, OH. Sold into private ownership decades ago it spent years in Indiana and then on Michigan's Adrian and Blissfield Railroad until being sold to Precision Locomotive Leasing.
Concord, Massachusetts
Friday September 29, 2023
Dave Blaze
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