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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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Origin of the name of the Wildcat Branch
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Former LIRR caboose #29 in Maine?
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"Modern" BnM Paint Scheme
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B&M Switcher Retirement
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Another B&M freight house bites the dust
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Historic MEC station in Bath to reopen
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B&M Caboose in Pelham, NH
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Mystery Maine ROW
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Hoosac Tunnel power
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Hillsboro Branch/Elmwood
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ICC Accident Reports
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Fitchburg Main single tracking
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B&M engines today?
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MEC Snowplow
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Genealogy search- RR retirement board
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Boston & Maine Bristol Branch
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Maplewood, NH Depot
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Retired Budd Cars at North Station?
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Two great B&M stories on the home page...
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Use of telegraphy
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Loco Retirement Question
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B&M Operations in the 1950's.
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Hoosac Tunnel Route Ruling Grade
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Orange stairwells on B&M units?
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B&M railroad system maps
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Merrimack NH
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What Does It Say?
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A B&M Quiz
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Hoosac Tunnel Lining Towers
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Maine Central plow drawing wanted
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B&M builders plates on ebay
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Passenger service on the Lower Road
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Whoopee Trains?!?
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Need HELP with B&M engine types...
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Stoneham MA turntable?
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Portland Terminal Company questions...
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detours via Ashuelot/Cheshire branches?
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Talgo in Maine
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South Ashburnham Switchback
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MEC through Wiscasset
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B&M 2-8-2's???/
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B&M Snow Train to North Conway
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470 news
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EX. Maine Central #259
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50th Anniversary of Swampscott train wreck coming up!!
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For Someone rich
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B&M F-3A&B #4228
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Renovations for the Former MEC station in Bath, Maine
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Car struck at grade crossing in Brunswick, Maine
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Need Hoosac EAST PORTAL photo...
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Calais Branch in the news
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B&M pax station closings in 60s/70s
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Intervale Photos/Drawings
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B&M Railroad in Malden
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Quick Mt. Division Questions.
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Bartlette
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Derailment in Bangor
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See the REAL Boston & Maine
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New unit coming to the Maine Eastern
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Looking for photos of the Carlton Bridge in Bath, Maine
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Save Danvers, Mass. depot... meeting scheduled!
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B&M Greenville, NH branch photos
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New Ties(some!) for Brunswick Wye.
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1956 Swampscott B&MRR wreck
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Last steam engine in Danvers, Mass.
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Correct B&M cream/maroon paint shades?
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Awesome Maine Eastern photo
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Maine Central/B&M station sign
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Two old wooden box cars in Charlestown
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Cheshire Branch cutoff
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B&M caboose, Wolcott, CT
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b&m 1455 pics?
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B&M 1455
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1913 timetable
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Looking for info on the "eastern line" aka Hampton
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Modelling question: Maine Central GP7's
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Belfast turntable headed south
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Films of John Boardman
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Gardiner, maine exempt branch question
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Whitefield - Gilman route
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Things are going well for the Maine Eastern
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Question about Maine Central lanterns...
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Johnsonville turntable pit
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Montvale Yard?
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Maine Eastern (Rockland Branch) in the news
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Grand Trunk to Lewiston
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