Better dynamic brakes and roller bearing trucks (little, if any, oil leaks) make scenes like this a thing of the past as SENH rolls downgrade through Bancroft "wreathed in brake smoke".
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SENH and BTO731 at Bancroft, MA. on 7/1/82. (3)
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