Surviving equipment

MEC 407:

Those are all GP 7/9(?) units correct?

The MEC 557 is an RS-3 and is stored at the Rail Museum of New England (RMNE) in the Waterville Section of Waterbury CT. See thread below.
http://tinyurl.com/3g8tb6

Dick

gokeefe wrote:MEC 407:

Those are all GP 7/9(?) units correct?

Yes, all GP7s except for the 557.

Glad to see that the 557 is in good hands at RMNE.

Here's a pic of the 557 from last year..

http://tinyurl.com/3levw4

and a pic in Tilton NH in 1995

http://tinyurl.com/3gefl4

Thanks to the RMNE for keeping it from the scrapper.

Dick

So am I to understand that after all the glory and great railroading of the MEC it's come down to 2 or maybe 3 units left that are operational or potentially going to be restored to operations in the near future? The GP7 at CSRR, the RS3 at the RMNE and I think there's a GE -boat at CSRR??!? Wow...Hard to believe that so much has been lost. I just remembered that Mr. Clark has some Alco (?) units that were on the branch lines, including the Rockland Branch and the Lower Road, can't remember what they are.

The U-boat at CSRR is not ex-MEC, unfortunately. CSRR did have the opportunity to purchase one or two "genuine" ex-MEC U18Bs, both in fully operable condition, but chose not to. I'll leave it at that, since I've been scolded in the past for bringing it up.

There are quite a few other ex-MEC diesels still in existence, but in terms of diesels that were used in passenger service, the number of survivors is indeed quite small... and unless someone can tell me otherwise, I'm going to say that all of the "covered wagons" are indeed gone forever. The E7s definitely; and most likely the F3s as well.

I guess in some ways that's what makes the 470 so special. Maybe to some people that ride in '54 was really the end of passenger service. As MEC passenger service barely lasted into the diesel age in '60.

What about the Flying Yankee, twin sister to the Pioneer Zephyr?
Cheers,
Nick

shadyjay wrote:NY/CT/MA/VT/NH/ME:
* Whatever Pan-Am/Guilford has that still is B&M... some engines perhaps? Boxcars and M of W equipment for sure.

Their GP9s are all B&M... that's it for engines.

ngotwalt wrote:What about the Flying Yankee, twin sister to the Pioneer Zephyr?
Cheers,
Nick

Up at the hobo railroad. Under wraps though.

H.F.Malone wrote:No one mentions RMNE?

B&M stuff:

Two SW1s (1109 and 1110, both 1939)
One Alco RS-3 (1508, blt 1954)
One GP9 (1732, blt 1957)
One steel caboose (472, blt 1959)
One wood caboose (104406, blt 1907)
Two milk cars (1910, 1920, both blt 1957)
One 40-ft PS1 boxcar (76079, blt 1957)
One 50-ft PS1 boxcar (77843, blt 1957)
Two 40-ft drop-bottom gons (W610 and 92788, both blt 1942)
Three 40-ft wood outside braced boxcars (71870, 72249, 72480, all blt 1930)
One 60-foot open platform wood passenger car/combine (was the "Movie Car" at Steamtown)

That's 16 B&M pieces at RMNE. Any place else have more?

Details and some photos. If there's more photos out there, please let me know.

http://naugy.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

-=otto-

I just updated my list of preserved B&M passenger equipment:

http://www.faracresfarm.com/jbvb/rr/bmrr/pass_pre.html

It's too bad that many US museums don't see it as important to publish equipment lists on the web. If anyone can fill in missing details, reply here or PM me.

I recall, and have (somewhere here in the rubble) a photo of a B&M coach in the Conway Scenic yard. I think the number was 214. Anyone know what became of it?

have not been done there for years since I use to sell at the fathers day show at Edaville RR. What happened to the B&M equipement down there? Wasn't there a steam loco(maybe a Pacific) and two or three coachs in the maroon paint scheme?
I know where the Yankee went to.