Logo
David Hutchinson's Collection
 
4/6/2025
View Photos
Members
 
 
 
 
Home > Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority > Locomotives > Rebuilt EMD GP40-3 > MBTA 3247
Pictures of MBTA 3247
 
Owner: Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP40-3Built As:CO 4092 (GP40)
Serial Number:39238Order No:5811
Frame Number:5811-2Built:12/*
Notes:GP40-2 Former OHCR 3247
Other locos with this serial:  CO 4092(GP40) CSX 6847(GP40) OHCR 3247(GP40) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
  Page Controls   View:  Pics Per Page:
Recent purchase
Title:  Recent purchase
Description:  Ohio Central 3247 sits out in front of the backshop at Boston Engine Terminal waiting for shipment to Guilford's Waterville Shops to get her new MBTA paint job.
Photo Date:  3/7/2004  Upload Date: 6/4/2010 8:51:11 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  2136   Comments: 2
Weekend Layover
Title:  Weekend Layover
Description:  The work train power is tied down for the weekend at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  12/20/2008  Upload Date: 3/11/2012 8:15:24 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  689   Comments: 0
Late Afternoon
Title:  Late Afternoon
Description:  MBTA switchers share adjacent tracks at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  7/19/2009  Upload Date: 7/19/2009 8:19:51 PM
Location:  Boston, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) MBTA 3249(3GS21B)
Views:  1289   Comments: 0
Just before dawn
Title:  Just before dawn
Description:  The second trick switcher from last night, sits out the early morning at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  10/30/2010  Upload Date: 10/30/2010 9:24:23 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
Lull in the storm
Title:  Lull in the storm
Description:  There's a lull in the first real storm of the winter here at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  12/27/2010  Upload Date: 1/1/2011 9:01:02 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  772   Comments: 1
Plow Extra
Title:  Plow Extra
Description:  Snow wlow extra cruises along the old Fitchburg Division mainline adjacent to Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  1/31/2011  Upload Date: 1/31/2011 8:37:57 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  1075   Comments: 2
Early Saturday Morning
Title:  Early Saturday Morning
Description:  Last night's switcher idles out in front of PM-2 at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  9/5/2011  Upload Date: 9/11/2011 9:32:09 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
In the wee hours
Title:  In the wee hours
Description:  Light towers cast an eerie glow on a rainy Sunday at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  10/2/2011  Upload Date: 10/2/2011 8:30:06 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
Thick Fog
Title:  Thick Fog
Description:  Yard floodlights at Boston Engine Terminal pierce the foggy darkness creating an almost dreamlike scene.
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 8:07:05 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  447   Comments: 1
Tied down for the night
Title:  Tied down for the night
Description:  MBCR welded rail train is tied down for the night at the new "Macaulay Interlocking".
Photo Date:  11/5/2011  Upload Date: 11/5/2011 8:43:36 PM
Location:  Andover, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
In the wee hours
Title:  In the wee hours
Description:  MBCR welded rail train idles in the early morning hours at the new "Macaulay Interlocking".
Photo Date:  11/6/2011  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 7:17:27 PM
Location:  Andover, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
Separate entities
Title:  Separate entities
Description:  At one time we were one railroad, now they're differant as night and day. Pan Am local LA-1 idles at Third Avenue as the MBCR work train passes by.
Photo Date:  11/9/2011  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 5:48:29 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) MEC 382(GP40)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
To the rescue
Title:  To the rescue
Description:  MBTA light engine 3247 passes disabled Amtrak train #693.
Photo Date:  12/3/2011  Upload Date: 12/9/2011 6:39:22 PM
Location:  West Medford (subdiv, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 90220(NPCU) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  702   Comments: 0
To the rescue
Title:  To the rescue
Description:  MBTA 3247 has tied-onto disabled Amtrak train #693 whose locomotive suffered a seized-up axle gear.
Photo Date:  12/3/2011  Upload Date: 12/9/2011 6:39:48 PM
Location:  West Medford (subdiv, MA
Author:  David Hutbhinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) AMTK 16(P42DC)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
The edge of night
Title:  The edge of night
Description:  We're 3 hours into the second trick at Boston Engine Terminal as darkness begins to descend.
Photo Date:  11/13/2013  Upload Date: 11/18/2013 8:55:54 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 2001(MP40PH-3C) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  669   Comments: 0
Third Avenue
Title:  Third Avenue
Description:  MBCR work train rumbles down the "B&A Westbound", passing alongside Pan Am LA-4, waiting for its on duty time.
Photo Date:  1/15/2014  Upload Date: 1/15/2014 6:39:34 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 502(GP40-2LW) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  325   Comments: 1
MBTA 3247
Title:  MBTA 3247
Description:  MBCR work train rumbles down the 4th Iron, passing alongside GATX lease engines that are set out for interchange.
Photo Date:  5/7/2014  Upload Date: 5/8/2014 5:44:07 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) GMTX 2217(GP38-2)
Views:  921   Comments: 1
MARC 66
Title:  MARC 66
Description:  The work train holds the eastbound, while ex MARC GP-40's occupy the westbound out in front of Boston Engine Terminal, still waiting to be shipped back to their owner.
Photo Date:  7/11/2014  Upload Date: 7/11/2014 9:04:47 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MARC 66(GP40WH-2) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
Sunrise at B.E.T.
Title:  Sunrise at B.E.T.
Description:  GP-40 3247 idles in the cool morning air at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  8/20/2014  Upload Date: 8/20/2014 7:25:53 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
End of the day
Title:  End of the day
Description:  The Keolis work train has put up on the old B&A Eastbound while SLC lease units, not yet in service,occupy the B&A Westbound out by Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  5/18/2015  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 5:18:41 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) SLC 302(F40PH)
Views:  807   Comments: 0
Work Train
Title:  Work Train
Description:  MBTA work train is in the clear for a pair of Amtrak extras at the former Beacon Park yard.
Photo Date:  9/20/2016  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 2:57:36 PM
Location:  Allston, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Busy Morning
Title:  Busy Morning
Description:  Pan Am LOSA makes up his train on the #1 track, while an MBTA work train holds the #2 track and stored motive power occupies the #1 and 2 Turnout.
Photo Date:  9/22/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 3:20:43 PM
Location:  Lowell, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 310(GP40) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  430   Comments: 2
Meet at Third Avenue
Title:  Meet at Third Avenue
Description:  The MBTA work train pulls up alongside Pan Am BO-1 at Third Ave. in Somerville.
Photo Date:  10/25/2016  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 3:16:05 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 371(GP40) MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  342   Comments: 2
To the rescue
Title:  To the rescue
Description:  The work train having been called out to rescue a disabled train at the new Wauchusett facility, waits in the clear for a scheduled train to put up before leaving for Boston.
Photo Date:  12/12/2016  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 3:39:06 PM
Location:  Westminster, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) MBTA 1053(F40PH-2C)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Unloading Salt
Title:  Unloading Salt
Description:  The MBTA work train unloading rock salt at the new Wauchusett station.
Photo Date:  12/27/2016  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 3:40:11 PM
Location:  Westminster, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  324   Comments: 1
Work Train
Title:  Work Train
Description:  The MBTA work train is paused at Silver Lake to load scrap ties.
Photo Date:  12/28/2016  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 3:41:14 PM
Location:  Wilmington, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3)
Views:  377   Comments: 2
Interchange
Title:  Interchange
Description:  The MBTA work train has arrived at Lawrence yard to interchange coaches headed west for rebuilding with Pan Am LA-1.
Photo Date:  1/6/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 3:42:06 PM
Location:  Lawrence, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 3247(GP40-3) MEC 608(SD40-2)
Views:  701   Comments: 1

Page 1 of 1

Site Design ©2001-2020 Tim Huemmer
Photos © respective authors		   Contact: info@rrpicturearchives.net