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Portland Lewiston Interurban car “Narcissus”
Maine Narrow Gauge #1, a narrow gauge diesel electric locomotive
An 8 year-old watches trains go by…
A Canadian Pacific train heads right while another heads left at a lower level
Hugo toy for wooden train tracks
Open 10-5 Thu, Fri, Sat
An O scale train going around a loop in the window of North East Trains in Peabody, MA
are you the orange line? because babe ur smokin :)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Experiments & Testing interurban car as seen in Worcester, MA in 1907
South Shore Model Railroad Club layout
A double width T-Trak module has a white plaster mountain that’s more than a foot tall. Sticking out of the mountain on the right is the rear end of The Ark from 1984’s The Transformers TV show.
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A high school gym filled with a model railroad show
Scale diagram of PLI Arbutus (I don’t know if this was ever produced at O scale as the diagram implies)
Google Streetview of Star Market in Newton, MA over I-90
O gauge diagram of the PLI Arbutus
A man in a supermarket picks up the phone and farts into it for the entire store to hear
2003 Nissan 350Z (“brickyard” color only available that model year) in Maynard, MA
A Guilford box car is pushed by a Guilford locomotive pulling a B&M gondola and then somehow a Sonoma County Wines car with a Napa Wine Train caboose. (A 7 year-old picked these freight cars.)
A look down a dirt road as a train passes by. A red semi cab which looks like Optimus Prime is in the distance and a DeLorean time machine is in the foreground.
A loop of N scale Atlas track with two tracks on the left side of the loop. The right side has sidings that lead into a train shed in the far right corner. There are also two short sidings that extend to the very edge on the right. The center of the loop has a dirt road and four buildings. Some small trees with green foliage are sparsely sprinkled across the layout.
Rear half of the Autobot spaceship known as The Ark as seen in the first episode of The Transformers in 1984. There is a sticker with the logo for TWiT.tv under it…because I took this photo to show people in the Club TWiT 3D printing Discord channel.
Insulation foam cut to help shape a mountain and the pieces form a T. The rear of The Ark from The Transformers (G1) is inside the right area of the mountain. They sit on a double-wide T-Trak module box. No N scale track has been attached yet.
Star Market over the Mass Pike. It's an ugly cement structure on pillars with 6 lanes of highway passing underneath. Two MBTA railroad tracks pass by on the side closest to the camera, but do not go under the supermarket.
Not a great photo, but Rapido was showing off the EMD F40PH-2D.
Fruit of the Loop tightie whities with “Central Georgia” embroidered on the front. Apparently priced at $2. I did not touch them.
Various wooden Amtrak trains at the Whittle Shortline Railroad booth
View of one of the four buildings at the Amherst show
Neighborhood Trolley from Mister Rogers Neighborhood
A crowd gathers to see Teddy Roosevelt arriving on the Narcissus
West Springfield, MA weather next weekend is way below freezing…with snow on Sunday
The rear half of The Ark from G1 Transformers.
910035 Logging Railway
G1 Astrotrain from Transformers
Grand Trunk 713, a 2-6-0 mogul
“Valley Central Railway” Alco S6 #9 destroys the DeLorean time machine. A matching Alco S6 with an unknown number follows behind.
An MBTA train passes by as the camera pans out to a view of Boston
O scale train layout on display
Northwestern Pacific patch
Photo from a book. Caption reads: This August 1907 postcard captures Santa Rosa in rebuilding mode following the disastrous earthquake of April 1906. This shot, looking east on Fourth Street, reveals that every building is new or being extensively rebuilt. Note the tracks and overhead wires of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway. The arch, possibly built for a fraternal group or convention, welcomes Marin County. (Authors' collection.)
Pan Am Railways locomotive
Photo of a T-shirt with a steam engine illustration. It says “Getting All Steamed Up”. The engine, potentially AI generated, has two wheels outside one side of the cab and no other wheels visible at all.
Sign which says: “He saw the train and tried to duck it Kicked first the gas and then the bucket”
Boston & Maine Railroad poster which says “New England has everything” and has illustrations of a B&M locomotive pulling passenger cars, Portland Head Light, The Old Man in the Mountain (RIP), a village, and green mountains.
What seems to be an MBTA PCC trolley rusting away under a gray tarp. It’s still on the back of a flatbed trailer for some reason…and that trailer has been there for quite some time since it’s on a bed of gravel and framed by railroad ties. Trimmed grass surrounds the railroad tie border. Photo taken in May 2025 at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
This tank engine looks like it might be from Britain, but it’s painted as if it’s Maine Central.
Sign which says: “Approached a crossing without looking Who will eat his widow's cooking”
Housatonic 3604 in front of two ex-CSX Grafton & Upton Railroad MP15ACs. Image taken from a video by @dcrailmedia8054 on YouTube shot in September or October 2025.
Grand Trunk 713, a mogul
Amtrak Phase VII with red on the coaches instead of sea foam green.
A former CSX EMD MP15AC numbered 1191 in which all the CSX logos have been covered with gray paint and then hastily stenciled over with “GU”. It looks SO BAD!
Lots of tracks and switches at South Station in Boston from Apple Maps
Portland Lewiston Interurban terminal building on Middle Street in Lewiston, Maine. (Yes, it says “77 Bates Street”, but this is Middle Street.) Photo taken November 10, 2025 by me. Hey look! Space for lease!
BER PCC trolley and MBTA LRV in HO scale on an office shelf
Tracks on a hill in the background as tracks round the bed in the foreground too.
Sierra Railway caboose No. 7
Kevin Gallagher’s Hopedale Shops was at the show. They specialize in custom paint jobs for New England short lines. I was surprised to see this Grafton & Upton box car! (I have a fondness for G&U.) I took their card and will be checking out their Facebook page… Photo taken by my son. He took A LOT of photos. I still need to look through them to see if there’s any keepers.
MBTA 1057 in the Worcester yard