Between 1979 and 1987, during the eight-year construction of the current rail/transit Southwest Corridor line, Amtrak and MBTA trains were rerouted to Readville over the former New Haven Dorchester branch, once the NH's freight line into South Boston and now the MBTA Fairmount line. On the first morning of rerouted service, a Washington-bound corridor train departs South Station over the now-vanished Fort Point Channel drawbridge rather than taking the former path via Back Bay.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, November 3, 1979.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, April 7, 2017.
Railroad: Amtrak.

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