Arriving at Baltimore Penn Station I found GP40WH-2 #69 along with an elusive pair of AEM-7's with #4900 (nice) and AEM-7 replacement HHP-8 #4910. Despite both Amtrak's and SEPTA's AEM-7 fleets soldiering on for another decade, the MARC units generally vanished from public view before winding up at the Locust Point shoppes.
If I recall correctly my traveling companion joined me in New Haven to continue on to Boston via train. Once in Boston our local host treated us to a tour of the MBTA's Cabot Car Shoppes where the Red Line fleet is maintained. The 01500 and 01600 cars were already over 30 years old and have subsequently turned 50.
A new cam controller had just been delivered from the Everett shoppes for the purely DC-drive 01500/01600/01700 cars. Everett had been the Orange Line shoppes until the line was rerouted up to MBTA Reading Line to Oak Park, but still would perform component refurbishment.
The Seashore Trolley Museum can be considered the "Boston" streetcar museum in the same way that Shore Line is the "New York" museum. It also has quite a few bits of preserved infrastructure such as this copper clad Orange Line tower, a former New Haven RR dwarf semaphore signal and motor generator set for converting AC power to DC.
It also has an extensive collection of rapid transit vehicles from all over the country. Their literal party piece is a State of the Art Car, which can in fact be rented for parties.
