RailPictures.Net Photo: 9529 Conrail EMD SW1500 at Boston, Massachusetts by Tom Nelligan

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» Conrail (more..)
» EMD SW1500 (more..)

» Beacon Park Yard
» Boston, Massachusetts, USA (more..)
» September, 1984

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A Conrail SW1500 pulls a string of loaded piggyback flats off the trailer loading tracks and past the yard office at Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The yard closed in 2013 as CSX moved intermodal operations out to Worcester, and the land is now being redeveloped.

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