Surviving equipment

[BostonUrbEx]

I find it amazing how many cabeese are scattered throughout New England. Did people buy them? Were they being given away for the cost of shipping? There's individual cabeese from B&M and MEC all over the place.

[Engineer Spike]

There way a PS car at Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum. Several buggies around Canaan, CT. I think it's a diner at Illinois Railway Museum.

Once I was driving around Middlebury Watertown area of Connecticut. On a back road someone had a steel boxcar, and maybe a buggy in a yard. I tried to find it again, but was unable.

VTR has some of the 300 class, and CP does too, but has been selling them with the big order of new geeps. KCS got the 200 class, but I don't know how many are there still.

[jbvb]

This needs a thorough update, particularly regarding the Boise Budds now at the Grand Canyon Ry., but it does give details of the diner and cafe at IRM:

http://www.faracresfarm.com/jbvb/rr/bmrr/pass_pre.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[CSRR573]

Is any of the pan am wreck train old b&m stuff?

[arthur d.]

Wrecked and decaying wooden snowplow down over the embankment on the old WN&P in Springvale Maine.

[arthur d.]

Cruising NH Craig's list the other day, I came across one of the transfer buggies. For sale somewhere in the Epsom NH area.

[jbvb]

Should have said this earlier, but I believe the 'American Flyer' style lightweight car at Shelburne Falls is ex-BAR.

[johnpbarlow]

Looks like B&M 3713 restoration is moving to Steamtown's front burner per this Wilkes-Barre newspaper article of Monday 6/20/16:

http://citizensvoice.com/news/boston-ma ... -1.2057258

3713 could be running at Steamtown by 2019...

[arthur d.]

Thanks for posting that JPB. Informative, I didn't know Coffin was still in business.

[NashuaActon&Boston]

On Fawcett St. in Cambridge there are two landlocked, decaying Bluebird-liveried boxcars in the IggY's Bakery parking lot. They sit parallel to the Fitchburg, which is just over the fence. There was an active spur serving Fawcett St. in Cambridge until at least 2001. Around this time I was astonished one afternoon to pull down the road and find a Guilford Geep idling away in the middle of the street w/ boxcar attached. As with most Guilford marginal operations in the Fresh Pond Cambridge area (e.g. Watertown Branch) the tracks were in such a deplorable state that I naturally assumed the Fawcett St. industrial spur to have be long abandoned..

[johnpbarlow]

Here's the end of 2017 update on Steamtown's restoration activity on B&M Pacific 3713:

http://www.project3713.com/wp-content/u ... ct3713.pdf

Interestingly, given the original tender body was too rotted to be restored, a new all-welded tender body is to be constructed and "To preserve the visual integrity of the project, replica rivet heads will be welded on in exact locations"!

And there's good swag that can be purchased to help fund the restoration, too.

[toolmaker]

Pictures of B&M Transfer Caboose in Littleton, NH from 2009

[toolmaker]

A couple more from 2009

[Dogbert666]

Anyone know the history of these boxcars in Billerica? Three are labeled Gilford Signal Storage, and the other two appear to be ex MEC, painted all white.

[hillsboyro]

Hello all, while looking at a youtube video of the Amtrak Vermonter, there was a former New York Central car at the tail end. This made me curious about Boston and Maine railcars that may still exist in various states. There's an old BM pullman called "Salisbury Beach" that used to go up to Concord, there's several still on tourist railroads and museums, but does anyone have a list? I'm most interested in ones like "Salisbury Beach" that are privately owned and in good shape.