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Sweeping the platform, 2016.

Color digital image showing a conductor and assistant conductor glancing down the platform before their Downeaster (Boston-Brunswick) train departs; image dates to December 16, 2016.

Sweeping the platform, 2016.

Conductor Rory O'Connor (right) and Assistant Conductor Dean Rybolt wait at the door to the cafe car to help customers boarding and deboarding a Downeaster train. The inauguration of the Downeaster on December 15, 2001 was the result of two decades of work by passenger rail advocates; the service was the first to operate between Maine and Boston since 1965.

The Downeaster is financed primarily through funds made available by the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, which was created in 1995 by the Maine legislature to develop and provide passenger rail service between Maine and Boston and points within Maine.

The conductor and assistant conductor are responsible for the safe movement and operation of the train, the collection and protection of Amtrak ticket revenue, the conduct of the operating and on-board service crews, the boarding and detraining of passengers and the assignment of passenger accommodations.

Photographer: Chuck Gomez for Amtrak. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.