I just so happened to catch what I believe was the last train on the Hollis Branch, itself a remnant of the old Worcester, Nashua and Portland through route. The B&M used the branch to store a very long line of unused box cars. On this day B&M GP-9 #1722 and another GP-9 out of the frame was about to cross Main Street in Ayer, MA. I recall twigs and branches stuck on the engines and cars from all the overgrowth. Twenty years later a paved bike trail was completed by DCR.

Photographed by Ron DeFilippo, 1982.
Added to the photo archive by Ron DeFilippo, March 29, 2019.
Railroad: Boston & Maine.

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