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When I worked for the B & M Accounting Dept. maintaining property records, the B & M converted at least one open top hopper to covered hopper for company sand. Got at Build date on the car?

The Union Freight RR used the Northern Avenue Bridge.

I think a Signal Station would be a Signal Box in Britain. There was reverse running on the #1 track from Croton-on-Hudson to Signal Station #43, about 13.5 miles. Looking towards New York, Grand Central from the left tracks were numbered 3-1-2-4.

Hudson Division Timetable #55, June 7, 1942 Croton on Hudson to Signal Station 37 (MP 40.10 East of Peekskill) - four tracks Signal Station 37 to Signal Station 43 (MP 47.43 East of Garrison) - two tracks Signal Station 43 to Signal Station 71 Barrytown - four tracks Signal Station 71 to Signal Stat...

My Sept. 1951 Equipment Assignment and Consist book has the fleet stored at Boston, "used on major holidays in Boston suburban service."

Maine Central Transportation Co., Boston & Maine Transportation Company, New England Transportation Co. (New Haven RR), Burlington Trailways (CB&Q), Gulf Transport (GM&O), Missouri Pacific Transportation Co., SMT - Scotia Motor Transport (Canadian National in the Maritimes) and probably ...

B & M built a brand new icing plant at Mechanicville about 1956-57 and it lasted about 25 years.

Most of the Eastern Mass. operations were conducted outside the BE or MTA zone and the most of the ones in the zone were bought out. For a capsule history of bus operations which has most of the rail conversion dates, find a Motor Coach Age, August-September 1982. Also earlier the Connecticut Valley...

I looked up Sleepy Hollow Lake, Town of Akron, NY. Akron was at one time a big gypsum producer. Maybe it had something to do with the gypsum industry.

The Lakes Michigan, Erie and Ontario car ferry routes normally carried only freight cars. Passengers were usually carried but not in railroad cars. The LV participated in a second tier NY-Chicago routing using the Grand Trunk west of Buffalo (or N Falls). The GT ferried entire passenger trains with ...

It is not a ferry, but a regular steamboat. Railroad cars would not have been run onto this steamer.

Keuka, Cayuga and Oneida all had steamboats, usually in the 100 - 160 ft range. They were day boats but probably had a few parlor staterooms for people who did not wish to rub shoulders with plebes. The landing is probably set up to land passengers on the upper deck. The lower would have engineroom,...

I think the structure is a lake boat, not on the Great Lakes but maybe one of the Finger Lakes in LV territory, Upstate New York.

The bridge was removed about 1942 and filled. CM Junction was at the bottom on the Marlboro Branch and Gleason Junction was at the top at the Boston end of the bridge. The connecting track was steep and was probably only used for passenger trains from Marlboro to Boston. This route was about 5 miles...

The passenger station was on Lincoln St. and was sold (don't know the date) to Brigham Auto Sales and was torn down about 20 years ago. It still had stained glass windows with FRR initials. The owner of the station resisted all efforts to preserve it. There was also an engine house in Marlboro. One ...