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CR 1931
Title:  CR 1931
Description:  Eastbound has just passed the summit of the Berkshires late in the afternoon of New Year's Eve.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 5/31/2005 6:04:38 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 1931(B23-7)
Views:  615   Comments: 0
CR 1934
Title:  CR 1934
Description:  Extra 1934 east nearing the Rt. 8 overhead just east of MP 141.
Photo Date:  1/31/1980  Upload Date: 2/27/2007 1:01:30 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1934(B23-7)
Views:  519   Comments: 0
CR 6217
Title:  CR 6217
Description:  Pusher on the rear of the extra 1934 east.
Photo Date:  1/31/1980  Upload Date: 2/27/2007 1:05:20 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6217(SD45)
Views:  675   Comments: 0
CR 3399
Title:  CR 3399
Description:  Extra 3399 east nearing the Rt. 8 overhead just east of MP 141 with one of CR's "bug-eye" GP40-2's leading.
Photo Date:  1/31/1980  Upload Date: 2/27/2007 1:10:29 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 3399(GP40-2) CR 3349(GP40-2)
Views:  773   Comments: 0
CR 6432
Title:  CR 6432
Description:  Rear of the extra 6415 west passing the summit of Washungton Hill. Don't know HOW I ever managed to get down out of the "Twin Ledges" and get up here to catch him again!
Photo Date:  2/22/1980  Upload Date: 2/28/2007 4:00:22 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6432(SD40-2)
Views:  674   Comments: 2
CR W/X2849
Title:  CR W/X2849
Description:  Work extra 2849 rounds the curve east of the summit.
Photo Date:  3/11/1980  Upload Date: 5/31/2005 5:50:13 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2849(U30B)
Views:  689   Comments: 0
CR 3219
Title:  CR 3219
Description:  Eastbound pigs swing around the curve east of the summit and cross the town line from Hinsdale into Washington.
Photo Date:  3/11/1980  Upload Date: 5/31/2005 5:54:40 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3219(GP40)
Views:  620   Comments: 0
Lake Shore Ltd.
Title:  Lake Shore Ltd.
Description:  AMTK tr. 448 passing the summit of the Berkshires in Hinsdale at an elevation of 1,459 ft.
Photo Date:  3/7/1981  Upload Date: 4/25/2005 6:37:57 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 346(F40PH)
Views:  719   Comments: 1
CR 3328
Title:  CR 3328
Description:  Extra 3328 east tops the grade and meets the extra 6083 wesw.
Photo Date:  3/14/1981  Upload Date: 4/25/2005 6:45:53 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3328(GP40-2)
Views:  730   Comments: 0
CR 6083
Title:  CR 6083
Description:  Westbound tonnage will be rolling down 6 miles of 1.45% grade in just a few hundred more feet.
Photo Date:  3/14/1981  Upload Date: 4/25/2005 6:46:13 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6083(SD45)
Views:  834   Comments: 0
"Rara Avis" on the B&A
Title:  "Rara Avis" on the B&A
Description:  GP30's were rare enough on the B&A, but to catch one in the lead....THIS IS IT! BOEL passes the summit with GP15-1 1688 as second unit.
Photo Date:  10/17/1981  Upload Date: 6/2/2005 11:31:59 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2182(GP30)
Views:  761   Comments: 0
CR 8072
Title:  CR 8072
Description:  Eastbound SEBO approaches the Rt. 8 overhead bridge.
Photo Date:  2/19/1983  Upload Date: 4/27/2005 11:35:44 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8072(GP38-2)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
(1) TV-8
Title:  (1) TV-8
Description:  Eastbound TV-8's climb is nearly finished, nearing the top of the grade at MP 142.
Photo Date:  2/26/1983  Upload Date: 4/27/2005 11:42:59 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3185(GP40)
Views:  588   Comments: 0
(2) TV-8
Title:  (2) TV-8
Description:  TV-8 near the end of his climb up from North Adams Jct.
Photo Date:  2/26/1983  Upload Date: 4/27/2005 11:43:21 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3185(GP40)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
(3) TV-8
Title:  (3) TV-8
Description:  TV-8 at the end of his climb at MP 142 in Hinsdale center.
Photo Date:  2/26/1983  Upload Date: 4/27/2005 11:43:39 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 3185(GP40)
Views:  577   Comments: 0
CR 8129
Title:  CR 8129
Description:  Eastbound SEBO is stretched out on the Hinsdale Flats tangent as he nears the summit.
Photo Date:  4/27/1983  Upload Date: 4/27/2005 11:54:25 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8129(GP38-2)
Views:  675   Comments: 0
CR 8215
Title:  CR 8215
Description:  Westbound ballast train BKI-177 nears the Rt. 8 overpass in Hinsdale.
Photo Date:  7/23/1983  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 1:46:27 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8215(GP38-2)
Views:  550   Comments: 0
CR 3262
Title:  CR 3262
Description:  Westbound NHSE-X at the Hinsdale crossovers, now a remotely operated "Controlled Point"--CP 140.
Photo Date:  7/23/1983  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 1:57:41 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Roster,Signal
Locomotives:  CR 3262(GP40)
Views:  585   Comments: 0
CR 2792
Title:  CR 2792
Description:  Eastbound SENH passes GP15-1 1697 at the Hinsdale crossovers. 1697 had just pushed a westbound.
Photo Date:  7/23/1983  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 1:50:14 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2792(U23B)
Views:  771   Comments: 0
CR 2016
Title:  CR 2016
Description:  Eastbound TV-6 charges over the summit of Washington Hill in Hinsdale.
Photo Date:  7/23/1983  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 1:42:16 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2016(B23-7)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
SBSE
Title:  SBSE
Description:  SBSE westbound at Hinsdale center. The cinder block building, which sat at roughly the same spot as the old Hinsdale Tower 53, was razed a couple of years after this point in time.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 11/22/2006 5:12:20 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6301(SD40)
Views:  557   Comments: 0
SBSE
Title:  SBSE
Description:  SBSE sports a "surprise" in the form of rare GP-20R 2103. Fortunately, this set of power would return later in the day as a light engine movement, and the 2103 would be leading.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 11/22/2006 5:13:26 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2103(GP20)
Views:  1401   Comments: 1
SBSE
Title:  SBSE
Description:  Caboose on SBSE follows it's train over the crest of the Grade at MP 142, Hinsdale center.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 11/22/2006 5:14:42 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  282   Comments: 0
TV-14X
Title:  TV-14X
Description:  TV-14X rolls beneath the Rt. 8 Overhead in Hinsdale. B36-7's were fairly new at this point in time, these were the first ones I had seen on the old B&A.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 4/7/2006 9:37:52 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 5045(B36-7)
Views:  893   Comments: 1
TV-14X
Title:  TV-14X
Description:  DS has TV-14X held at the Hinsdale crossovers for opposing traffic. This is still ABS, before the conversion to rule261/CSS, so the crossovers are still hand throws.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 4/7/2006 9:38:50 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 5045(B36-7)
Views:  962   Comments: 1
BOEL
Title:  BOEL
Description:  Opposing traffic arrives in the form of Westbound BOEL, led by another B36-7.
Photo Date:  2/10/1984  Upload Date: 4/7/2006 9:39:45 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 5047(B36-7) CR 8041(GP38-2)
Views:  939   Comments: 0
BAL-775
Title:  BAL-775
Description:  The same set of power that took BAL-174 east earlier, returns westward later in the day with loaded BAL-775.
Photo Date:  5/27/1984  Upload Date: 11/28/2006 3:27:32 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6601(C30-7) CR 6660(SD45-2) CR 6662(SD45-2) CR 6661(SD45-2)
Views:  1056   Comments: 1
BAL-775
Title:  BAL-775
Description:  BAL-775 nearing the summit of Washington hill. The dirt road in the foreground is actually the roadbed of the old track 4, a "freight running track", which extended from North Adams Junction in Pittsfield to Washington depot.
Photo Date:  5/27/1984  Upload Date: 11/28/2006 3:30:22 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6601(C30-7) CR 6660(SD45-2) CR 6662(SD45-2) CR 6661(SD45-2)
Views:  1104   Comments: 0
BAL-775
Title:  BAL-775
Description:  BAL-775 powers "over the hump", the "Top o' the B&A".
Photo Date:  5/27/1984  Upload Date: 11/28/2006 3:33:16 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6661(SD45-2)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
"Razow Blades"
Title:  "Razow Blades"
Description:  Amtrak 448 tops the grade in Hinsdale behind, now extinct, F40 201, scrapped several years ago.
Photo Date:  2/16/1985  Upload Date: 5/2/2005 10:05:32 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 201(F40PH)
Views:  974   Comments: 0
CR 6619
Title:  CR 6619
Description:  NHSE in Hinsdale center.
Photo Date:  2/16/1985  Upload Date: 9/2/2006 5:16:29 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6619(C32-8) CR 6617(C32-8)
Views:  1006   Comments: 0
CR 1935
Title:  CR 1935
Description:  NHSE at Hinsdale center, nearing MP 142.
Photo Date:  2/16/1985  Upload Date: 9/2/2006 5:16:59 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1935(B23-7) CR 9375(SW1200) CR 6610(C32-8)
Views:  1002   Comments: 0
CR 6567
Title:  CR 6567
Description:  Eastbound empty ballast train stretched out across the Hinsdale flats, passing MP 139, just west of the summit. The tangent is just a little more than a mile and a half long, not something you'd expect to see on a "mountain railroad".
Photo Date:  5/10/1985  Upload Date: 7/6/2006 5:46:18 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6567(C30-7A)
Views:  838   Comments: 0
CR 6614
Title:  CR 6614
Description:  Eastbound empty ballast train past the summit of Washington Hill.
Photo Date:  5/10/1985  Upload Date: 7/6/2006 5:47:51 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6614(C32-8) CR 6616(C32-8)
Views:  899   Comments: 0
M/T ballast train
Title:  M/T ballast train
Description:  Ballast train snaking through the curves at the summit. The dirt road to the right of the tracks is actually the roadbed of the old track 4, a freight running track, which extended from MP 149 in Pittsfield to Washington Depot, about one more mile east of the summit.
Photo Date:  5/10/1985  Upload Date: 7/6/2006 5:49:57 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  133   Comments: 0
SEBO-B
Title:  SEBO-B
Description:  SEBO-B has just passed the summit of Washington Hill, and we get a wave from the engineer.
Photo Date:  5/10/1985  Upload Date: 7/6/2006 8:40:44 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6556(C30-7A)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
SEBO-B
Title:  SEBO-B
Description:  Going away view of SEBO-B, with Muddy Pond just ahead. We'll take off and see him again in Bancroft.
Photo Date:  5/10/1985  Upload Date: 7/6/2006 8:41:53 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6555(C30-7A)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
SENH
Title:  SENH
Description:  SENH passing MP 139 in the Hinsdale flats, about to crest the summit.
Photo Date:  5/24/1985  Upload Date: 7/27/2006 10:33:44 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6566(C30-7A)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
SENH
Title:  SENH
Description:  B23-7 1980 in SENH.
Photo Date:  5/24/1985  Upload Date: 7/27/2006 10:35:31 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1980(B23-7)
Views:  968   Comments: 0
CR 5447
Title:  CR 5447
Description:  Work extra 5447 rolls downgrade past MP 143 at the Hinsdale/Dalton town line.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/10/2006 3:21:08 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5447(GP8)
Views:  616   Comments: 0
AMTK 448
Title:  AMTK 448
Description:  The "Lake Shore" nearing MP 142 in Hinsdale center.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/10/2006 3:24:05 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 205(F40PH)
Views:  749   Comments: 0
CR 2020
Title:  CR 2020
Description:  The set of power that took SBSE to Selkirk earlier, returns eastbound as a light engine move. The quartet is nearing MP 142 and the top of the grade in Hinsdale center.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/10/2006 3:26:08 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2020(B23-7)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
CR 6550
Title:  CR 6550
Description:  NHSE at Hinsdale center, near MP 142.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/10/2006 3:27:50 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6550(C30-7A)
Views:  539   Comments: 0
CR 6550
Title:  CR 6550
Description:  NHSE at Hinsdale center, near MP 142.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/12/2006 10:37:42 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6550(C30-7A)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
CR 6550
Title:  CR 6550
Description:  NHSE tips over the edge at MP 142, visible at right leaning against the concrete wall opposite the lead unit, and begils it's downward plunge to North Adams Junction, 6 miles away and about 400 ft. lower in elevation.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/12/2006 10:39:27 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6550(C30-7A)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
NHSE
Title:  NHSE
Description:  NHSE starts down the grade to Pittsfield.
Photo Date:  6/21/1985  Upload Date: 8/12/2006 10:40:43 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  108   Comments: 0
CR 6613
Title:  CR 6613
Description:  Typical hazy early morning with low clouds as TV-6 rolls past the Hinsdale team track. Signal 141.31 no longer exists since conversion to cab signals in the late '80's.
Photo Date:  7/13/1985  Upload Date: 8/14/2006 10:33:15 AM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6613(C32-8) CR 6404(SD40-2)
Views:  799   Comments: 0
TV-6
Title:  TV-6
Description:  TV-6 labors heavily over the crest of the grade at MP 142 in Hinsdale center. The 6557 was somewhat of an "oddball", with the headlight mounting plate on the nose, and it always had those small digit number boards.
Photo Date:  12/20/1986  Upload Date: 2/10/2006 5:50:05 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6557(C30-7A)
Views:  609   Comments: 2
Helper on the rear of TV-6
Title:  Helper on the rear of TV-6
Description:  TV-6 has some added impetus, in the form of B23-7 2005, at it's rear end.
Photo Date:  12/20/1986  Upload Date: 2/10/2006 5:51:08 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2005(B23-7)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
SEPW-X
Title:  SEPW-X
Description:  An SEPW extra tops the grade in Hinsdale center at 11:50
Photo Date:  12/20/1986  Upload Date: 2/10/2006 5:52:08 PM
Location:  Hinsdale, MA
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 6567(C30-7A)
Views:  664   Comments: 0


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