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It was no small feat to get these two to cooperate and take a new school year pic on the front patio. Also with their sport kit - Ayla’s new school doesn’t actually have a uniform but they do require a specific sports kit to be worn for PE and such. Trite but true, time flies. Kaden and Ayla are both getting so big. I suspect by year-end Kaden will officially be taller than me. His feet are already 1-2 sizes bigger than mine!
Outbound Keolis/MBTA train 117 from North Station to Newburyport glides east over the low bridge crossing the Pines River at MP 8.4 on the former Boston and Maine Eastern Route mainline which has been in continuos service here since 1838. GP40MC 1776 is leading the six car trainset over the 250 ft long double track ballasted deck bridge as they leave the city of Revere and briefly enter the town of Saugus in this view taken from behind The Marina at the Wharf restaurant on Route 1A.
This unit, the former 1131, was the sixth of the MBTA's now eight unit fleet of 'heritage' locomotives dressed in one of a kind colors. While the first five were painted to pay homage to the system's early years and its historic predecessors, this one wears red, white and blue in honor of the 250th Anniversary of American independence. This gorgeous contribution to an ever growing list of patriotic locomotives done up by railroads from coast to coast could also be considered a true 'heritage unit' since this design very faithfully mirrors that worn by Boston and Maine Railroad 200, a GP38-2 specially painted for the Bicentennial a half century ago.
Saugus, Massachusetts
Friday July 10, 2026