Carl Weber - This shot is eastbound TV-10B-X (SD-80MAC CR 4111) at the former site of the depot in Washington, MA. on January 18, 1997.

Carl Weber - Another series of three photos, all SD-80MAC's, taken the same cold day, January 28, 1997. First is BOEL (CR 4117) exiting the big cut at Washington depot in Washington, MA. at 07:44. Note the "art work" on the relay cabinet at right. Some CR "wag" named the private crossing at this location the "Cat Lady crossing" in memory of an old lady who once lived across the road from here, and had a LOT 'o CATS! I know, because I remember her and the cats, too.

Carl Weber - Next in the series is eastbound autorack train ML482 (CR 4106) blowing through CP 140 in the Hinsdale flats with a wet, soggy snow falling.

Carl Weber - Last in this three-photo-series is SEFR (CR 4120) nearing the summit of Washington Hill just east of MP 139 in Hinsdale. That's the Hinsdale flats the train is strung out on behind.

Carl Weber - The next pair of photos are actually the SAME photo, I just did a cropped version for a closer look at the headend, and a nearly full-frame version. This is a late-running TV-6 (CR 6786) just past MP139 in Hinsdale, approaching the "Top 'o the B&A", around 2:00 in the afternoon of January 28, 1997. The pair of SD-50's was a little unusual for the B&A at this time.

Carl Weber - This is the actual photo from the lens.

Carl Weber - This next pair, like the previous two, are a cropped version and a nearly full-frame view. The train is once-a-week TV-99 (CR 6759) running along Muddy Pond in Washington, MA, just west of MP 138 on January 29, 1997. The "interesting" thing about this photo(s) is the "interest" shown by the engineer, as he checks out the photographer--ME!, with a pair of binoculars. MYOB, and pay attention to your train handling, Bub!

Carl Weber - The is the nearly full-frame view of the photo above.

Carl Weber - This shot is NHSE (CR 6612) working upgrade at MP 129 in Becket, MA. on May 10, 1985. The 6612 was less than a year old at the time, and, for some esoteric reason, I had "adopted" it as a favorite of mine. Maybe it was something to do with the number 6612 (6+6=12?!). When it was rebuilt after a collision near Philly in 1987, and got a "facelift" with the flat-topped roof and slightly differant nose from the C40-8's, I definitely was on the lookout for it.

Carl Weber - Here is SEBO (CR 4125 & CR 4113) crossing the east branch of the Westfield river at MP 119 in Huntington on May 8, 1997. This is the confluence of the east and west branches, with the west branch coming in right at the left side of the photo, and it is the west branch that the railroad follows up into the Berkshire hills.

Carl Weber - This is TV-6 (CR 6612) nearing MP 81 in Palmer, MA. on October 13, 1989. Included this one, since it's a fairly decent shot of the 6612 with it's "facelift" from the repair after the Philly collision. Note also, the two differant font number boards.

Carl Weber - "Strangers in a strange land"? Well, "Gillfud" may be considered "strange" by some, but ConRail power going for jaunts on the B&M was fairly common. This set, led by the first unit of CR's last order of GP-40-2's, the 3389, is at East Deerfield, MA, on January 26, 1985. They may have come east on a Bow coal train, but are getting ready to take an EDME-X back west.

Carl Weber - Our first encounter with the fairly new, at the time, GE B36-7's occured on February 10, 1984 in Hinsdale, MA. Eastbound TV-14X, led by the 5045, was stabbed at the Hinsdale crossovers for an opposing train, as one track on the east slope of Washington Hill was out of service. As the railroad was still ABS signal rules and a TBO was controlling the hand-throw switches and handing up orders to trains running against the flow, it didn't matter that the train stopped "in advance" of the block signal seen in the photo.

Carl Weber - SD-80MAC 4116 and mate do their best imitation of.......No, NOT Alco's, but WWII destroyers laying down a smoke screen as they dash across the Hinsdale flats atop Washington Hill with SEBO in the early morning of February 7, 1998.

Carl Weber - The 4103 and companion have SEBO in control as they roll down the east slope of Washington Hill approaching Ballou's on March 25, 1998.