06-01-15 PHOTOS: Boston Line - Lake Shore Limited

First part of my recent Salute to Unemployment Northeast Tour. Here are photos from the trip on the Lake Shore Limited . We departed ALB on time and arrives BOS 5 min early. We met the opposing Lake Shore at Springfield and did a "shuffle" at CP-109.

Photos at: http://acm.jhu.edu/~sthurmovik/Railpics/06-01-15_BOSTON_LINE_LSL/-Thumbnails.html


At Albany, the 448 shuttle meets train 48 accross the platform for the convienance of passengers. However track 1 does not connect to the old B&A Post Road branch so 448 must pull forward through CP-142, then reverse onto the main track then pull out again onto the post road. Here are train gets a MEDIUM APPROACH signal to reverse.

Here the Lake Shore's power has been replaced with Dual-Mode engine 711 for the run to Pig station. Interesting how the intruduction of Dual Modes have only moved the power change from Croton to Albany.

4 inches of snow the night before makes things pretty.