Showing posts with label watertown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watertown. Show all posts

Saturday, August 5, 2017

Monday, April 29, 2013

Fund Set Up For Injured MBTA Police Officer

(via the Trains.com News Wire)

BOSTON – Donations are being collected online and via mail to help Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police officer Richard Donohue Jr., who was shot and critically injured during an exchange of gunfire with the two men suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon.

The MBTA Police Association Benevolent Fund has launched a website, www.officerricharddonohue.com, to collect money to aid the 33-year-old officer and his family as he recovers. Donohue is married with a 7-month-old son. He remains in critical but stable condition at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.

The donation website for Donohue launched on Monday afternoon. MBTA is helping to spread awareness about the fund, including prominently displaying a link to the donation website and a photo of Donohue on the homepage of the MBTA.com website.

Money will go to help pay for Donohue’s medical expenses and his family’s daily bills. The donation website says Donohue joined the transit police department three years ago. A graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he served as U.S. Navy officer before joining the MBTA police.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The B&M Watertown Branch in HO Scale

I recently saw this photo posted on the Model Railroader forum.  I just had to share it, as anyone who has seen the Boston & Maine/Guilford Watertown (MA) Branch will appreciate just how accurate this scene is!  The work was done by Michael "mikelhh".

Atlas Alco C424 on the neglected line to the Bakery, speed limit 3mph.
Modelled after the prototype in Watertown, MA [now closed]

Guilford #354 stuck just beyond the bridge that Michael modeled. 
I took this photo in 2004.  I only wish I had become a railfan years earlier,
as I live only a couple of miles away and could have taken come
interesting photos of the branch!