Passenger Trains > Boston North Station Friday Afternoon

So the clever commentary for photo #1 was to be something like "There are no Budds for you anymore" at North Station since the last MBTA RDCs and Boise Budds are long gone. But then sitting on track 10 is Portland/Brunswick-bound Downeaster train 685 and its string of 5 Budd-built Amfleets. So "This Budd's for you" will be relevant when boarding for the 5pm departure is announced. In photo #3, an in-bound T train arrives crossing the Charles River with a bit of Tower A visible through the drawbridge truss.

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So what is on the coupler of #1035? Drouge chute, air bag, FOD ?

Maybe a cover to keep snow off the coupler?

Sharon Evans
Glen Allen, VA

Front coupler: snow cover or bonnet. Metra and others use similar.

Enjoyable series JPB, the affiliation between the Garden & Budweiser go back as far as I can remember. When everything was being torn down in the late 90's I clearly remember two names as I passed through along the still elevated Green Line on Causeway St...Budweiser & Testa (the construction company involved in the demolishing).

Like the lighting in Picture 3.

Marty Bernard

elu34ch Wrote:
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> So what is on the coupler of #1035? Drouge chute,
> air bag, FOD ?


Looks like a pumpkin

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival