by wicked
I’m planning to dig a bit more into this, because I’m fascinated by the line. One question: Was service suspended because of poor track conditions, financial issues or both? Did one factor outweigh the other?
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MACTRAXX wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:01 pm TN: Good pictures from the early 1980s...I am surprised to read that the B&M had Budds from other railroads. Purportedly, it had the largest number of them of any railroad in the world.
Two show the B&M RDC fleet being hauled by locomotives as they once ran.
For anyone unaware the MBTA had quite a "collection" of RDC cars from various railroads hauled by diesels with their engines used as generators only back primarily during the 1980s.
The third picture shows three of the leased Hawker-Siddeley single level GO Transit (Toronto) cars from that period.
They were displaced by the then-new GO bilevel cars in service.
I did not know that the GO cars were used in North Side Service
with the F10s...MACTRAXX
MickD wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 7:39 pm Anyone know what was about the top speed on the branch at the end..??Just 25 mph.
Rockingham Racer wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:19 am I am surprised to read that the B&M had Budds from other railroads. Purportedly, it had the largest number of them of any railroad in the world.In the 1950s the B&M did have the largest fleet of RDCs anywhere (109), but by the early 1980s many of them were out of service and the MBTA needed working equipment. So the T acquired secondhand cars that were surplus elsewhere, from Canadian Pacific, SEPTA,and New Jersey Transit.