What at the time was a record-setting snowstorm coupled with gale force winds shut down transportation in the Boston area on February 6-7, 1978. As the storm began, a pair of RDCs running inbound from Lowell passed the former North Somerville (Ball Square) station. The storm greatly hastened the end of self-propelled Budds in Boston due to many cars suffering ice damage to their underfloor engines.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, February 6, 1978.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, October 22, 2017.
Railroad: MBTA.

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