Boston Police rationing site

Boston Police rationing site is a location in the Commonwealth.

Background
A pair of community basketball courts and a railway unloading depot were combined by the pre-War Boston Police Department to set up a rationing station that would provide the destitute with food and other necessary goods. With such an ample supply of goods, many of which were in short supply on the market, theft and abuse was a natural concern. So the United States Army Reserve was to provide security and the loading and unloading of the goods from the train (the last shipment of which was on October 17th. ) while the 3rd Precinct of the BPD was in charge of the actual distribution (Checking receiving ledgers and distributing rations to civilians). The shifts were scheduled jointly by Detective Francis Perry and Sergeant John Reise.

This concerted effort however was not enough to stem the tide of corruption and incompetence. Complaints about shortages and missing items were dismissed by Sergeant S. Randall (BPD) as "just some civies trying to weasel a bit more out of the system," and to continue to keep the lines in order. However the officers couldn't or wouldn't do so, as there were several news stories about pickpockets stealing medical supplies from old ladies right under their noses. Meanwhile those on duty were trying to cozy up to the soldiers on guard. This was strictly forbidden by the senior staff, whom informed their troops that there was an ongoing investigation into the ration shortages in the unit. Believing it to be only a corrupt police issue, this however was not true.

It was the collusion of Detective Francis Perry and Sergeant John Reise who were the cause of the missing supplies. Hiding them within the utility tunnels between the warehouse and the Massachusetts Turnpike tunnel. They were in reality old friends and had no compunction about stealing the supplies for resale on the black market. Perry however was having a hard time trying to sell the goods and Reise was having none of it. Especially with Perry's partner Detective McDonnell onto their scheme. Whom the Sergeant ordered arrested if the Detective even came near the property.

In reality however Detective Perry was planning to pin the whole scheme on the Sergeant and skip town after his cousin Jack moved the goods to a safer location. Jack however dragged his feet and less than half was moved. This prompted Perry to record a message to Jack for him to hurry up, and to remind him of their plan. Including their alibi, to leave for a week or so and say that their grandmother was having health problems in New York. The plan to have Jack come by and gather the rest of the goods that night (October 23rd) was interrupted by the Sergeant overhearing Perry's recording of the coming betrayal. The two would kill each other, their skeletons would lie in the tunnels undisturbed for over two hundred years.

Exterior
The warehouse (east) and basketball courts (west) are located on the hill between the railway line and the once busy one way street. Directly in front of the entrance to the site is a bus stop. The retaining wall of the basketball court was reinforced with sandbags facing the street. The entrance to the rationing line began here, passing in front of the Boston Police Department trailer checkpoint and winding around both this and ending at the second court behind it.

This court was used to move the shipping containers into position — via a mega loader — for the officers of the BPD to distribute the rations for those on line. Past this court was the yard entrance to the warehouse. At the street, directly in front of it is, oddly, a van with three skeletons removing cash from a broken safe in its rear. This van and the tractor trailer behind it may have been parked their deliberately, while one coupe sits past the entrance. It apparently smashing through the fence from the yard entrance to the yard. The entrance to the warehouse yard was purposely narrowed with concrete dividers.

The yard of the warehouse is mostly empty, one container sits out front, one stands upright on the platform, two more were offloaded and stacked behind it, and one final container was to be placed behind the warehouse. However it is still on the mega loader's arm behind the ware house. The cargo train still mostly sits at the platform, some cars appear to have broken free and slid down the tracks. One coming to rest on the nearby rail bridge.

Warehouse
The warehouse's main doors can only be unlocked from the inside, via a wall button. The door on the platform is barred from the inside and the windows are boarded up from the inside.

The interior of the warehouse is packed with crates; the northern wall with crates on shelving, the center with two shipping containers, the southern platform has the access to the Mass Pike tunnel's utility tunnels to the west and a Protectron pod in the east corner past the terminal on the desk, the wooden crate next to it, and the ammo box next to that. The stairway to the balcony storage is located on the northern side of the warehouse. The balcony storage is separated into two parts, the first has a smaller shipping container, this is where the hole to the commonwealth is, this balcony is attached to the other balcony by a rickety wooden pathway where a former pathway once was. The second balcony contains and steamer trunk (locked Expert) and a larger shipping container.

The warehouse can only be accessed by jumping onto the roof and entering via a hole in the wall, or via the the stairs inside that connect to the Mass Pike tunnel's utility tunnels.

Notable loot

 * Det. McDonnell's holotape, within the Police Terminal inside the trailer.

Appearances
Boston Police rationing site appears only in Fallout 4.