From the roof of Hotel Charles in Springfield, we look down upon the B & A main line just west of the Springfield station, Train 28, the eastbound 'New England States', is coming off the Connecticut River bridge across the diamonds at New Haven tower…
The pair of EMD E-8 units above, brand new when this was taken, have wriggled through the profusion of curves, crossovers, diamonds, and diverging routes which separate the six tracks east of tower 50 from the double-tracked straightaway to Cleveland…