RailPictures.Net Photo: CR 2972 Conrail GE U36B at Ayer, Massachusetts by Tom Nelligan

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» October, 1979

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A rare Conrail U36B, one of just four on the roster, heads up a U33B and a GP40 on an empty coal train passing the Boston & Maine's Ayer, MA, tower. Coal trains serving a power plant at Bow, NH, on the B&M began running in the late 1960s with P&LE/NYC/B&M runthrough power.

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