Nostalgia & History > SB commuter F40 at Mansfield, MA in July of 1997

On July 5, 1997, I visited my home town of Mansfield, Mass, and got this nice sunny shot of a morning southbound MBTA commuter train as it approached the station.  Things have certainly changed here since I started riding the Penn Central trains (vintage NYNH&H passenger cars) into Boston during my Northeastern days.

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Nice photo.  What was the destination for this soutthbound train?
jb

I believe that rush hour trains ran south to Providence, RI - Off-peak trains ran to Attleborough, and then to a new South Attleborough station around this time.

Foxboro and Middleboro have the "ugh" neither Attleboro or South Attleboro do.

HRGXguy Wrote:
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> On July 5, 1997, I visited my home town of
> Mansfield, Mass, and got this nice sunny shot of a
> morning southbound MBTA commuter train as it
> approached the station.  Things have certainly
> changed here since I started riding the Penn
> Central trains (vintage NYNH&H passenger cars)
> into Boston during my Northeastern days.
During our family's annual vacation at our maternal grandparent's home in Foxborough, the laundry demands of a family of 5 required at least one trip to a laundromat in Mansfield directly across Chauncy St. from the RR station. This was usually my only chance to see mainline trains, and I only managed one bad pic when I was 16 in 1976.
It was a lot different back then without all the catenary, and even the branch through Foxborough was busier then.
Besides the RR station, the old Main St. fire house, and the Western Auto store were also favorite stops while the laundry did its thing. There was also extended family members in Mansfield to visit.
I also remember a bar behind the station that had exceptional fish n' chips, and where I was introduced to Narragansett beer...

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