Captain Boomerang locomotive makes guest appearance on the Fairmount Line

You never know what you'll see at the Readville train station, a.k.a. the world's largest model train set.

With it still being too hot to cook tonight, I drove down to Olympic Pizza in Wolcott Square, put in an order, then walked over to the station, where I spotted an unusual locomotive on a Fairmount Line train: The old diesel MassDOT bought, rehabbed and painted to look like Captain Boomerang's personal train for use on the Cape Flyer train to and from the Cape. Since that train only runs on the weekends, makes sense they'd use it for regular T service during the week.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Northeast Corridor, you can see the new bridge that looks like it'll be installed soon - complete with festive patio umbrella: