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Discussion relating to the pre-1983 B&M and MEC railroads. For current operations, please see the Pan Am Railways Forum.

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 #932324  by bumthum
 
I see that B&M owned 16 ton and 30 ton Plymouth switchers. Does anyone know what models these two critters might have been? I have been looking online but Plymouth offered several models in each weight and I am trying to track down information specific to the locomotives owned by B&M.
 #932759  by bmcdr
 
B&M 100 Plymouth JLB-2 built 6/1930

B&M 10 1 Plymouth ML-8 built 3/1938

One or both of them at one time were used as switchers at the company shops in Concord,N.H., both were sold off in 1941.
 #933112  by GP40MC1118
 
To add to Dave's reply:

100 - BN 3605 BD: 6/30 Sold 1941 to Draper Corporation (N.H.). Sold to Beebe River RR (Campton, N.H.). Further disposition unknown.

101 - BN 3963 BD: 3/38 Sold 1941 to Draper Corportation (N.H.) Sold to Beebe River RR (Campton, N.H.). Sold 1941 to Narragansett Pier 33.
Sold 1956 to Warwick Railway 103. Sold circa 1960 to Armstrong Cork 4 (Millville, NJ) after being rebuilt by Plymouth in 1960.
Further disposition unknown.

The B&M also rostered a Brookville critter that carried no roadnumber:
BN: 1163 BD: 3/11/1927 Retired in 1938. Further disposition unknown.

Dave
 #933113  by GP40MC1118
 
Forgot to mention the Brookville was an 8-Ton, 4-wheel gas locomotive equipped with a hoist. Model FIR (Fordson chassis). Was used by the MW Department.

100 - 16T, 4-wheel gas locomotive
101 - 30T, ML-8 Type 3, 8 cylinder gas engine.

Dave
 #940702  by bumthum
 
Here is 100 today. Parking lot in Lincoln.
Lincoln New Hampshire? I normally get home to NH about once a year and am through Lincoln almost everytime, where is it located? I would love to get some photos and measurements.
 #940843  by atsf sp
 
Depot shopping center on the Kancamangus Hwy before Loon if you were headed out of town.
 #1056396  by bumthum
 
Finally got up to visit the B&M Plymouth at Lincoln... neat little loco and the engineer's door was open so I poked the camera in and took some photos:
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The controls are mostly intact, gauges are beat up though:
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View must have been limited while switching:
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Overall a very interesting little critter. Not sure why the door was open but except for a single bit of graffiti there didnt seem to be any vandalism.