Home Depot Balboa
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Date: 2026-07-17
Registration: N643JB
As a small contribution to the Independence Day festivities Keolis/MBTA parked this stunning locomotive on Main 1 in the pocket between the front and back ladders of the Tower A interlocking just outside North Station in plain view for the passengers on every passing train. GP40MC 1776 (former 1131) is the newest 'heritage unit', the sixth of the MBTA's planned 8 (or maybe 10) 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' as the scheme very faithfully mirrors that worn by Boston and Maine Railroad 200, a GP38-2 specially painted for the Bicentennial a half century ago.
Passing on Main 6 headed outbound to Lowell on the point of train 5371 is MBTA 1130 another one of a kind painted GP40MC in the 'heritage fleet' . This look is colloquially known to fans as the 'easter egg' scheme and mimics the paint job worn by the original F40PHs in the 1970s and early 1980s and some of the FP10s.
Rising above the train can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it. The structures at left are part of the Boston Sand and Gravel complex, the last major freight customer in the terminal, which continues to be served two or three nights a week by CSXT train L065 from Dover, NH (former Pan Am Railways DOBO) which runs thru with New Hampshire Northcoast power.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Saturday July 4, 2026
