This is a labor of love, an attempt to history.

The “unlikely” part of this site’s domain name derives from the fact that your very amateur archivist resides in Northern California, 3083 miles and at this writing 34 years from a spot East of the Wellesley, MA station where he and a friend sat with cameras, two beach chairs, and the hope of another train before Mom came to bring us home. As an example, your archivist (then age 14) took this pic of “better than some” U30C 6536 on July 30, 1975 westbound at this favorite spot. Beach chairs evident on the right in the distance.