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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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 #328023  by caboose9
 
Guilford Guy wrote, "There's a caboose in Winchester."


Railroad? Number? State?

 #328125  by Guilford Guy
 
L&NE sold to B&M in 60's
no number
massachusetts
 #544638  by Lincoln78
 
There is a B&M boxcar on a siding in Montpelier, VT. It is near Sarducci's restaurant and the river.

The CT Trolley Museum in East Windsor also has a B&M boxcar. Not sure how it would have gotten there.
 #544655  by Mattydred
 
Things that I know of, off the beaten path in Eastern New Hampshire:

-MEC 40' boxcar. Rochester, NH left behind for Blue Seal in the 80s.
-B&M 50' possible milk car/plug door (former McGinnis black & blue) Rochester, NH behind Blue Seal.
-B&M steel modern C-type buggy. Alton, NH
-Unknown 40' steel boxcar hulks Dover, NH PAR division grounds.
-40' wood boxcar frame near turntable in Sanbornville (rapidly disappearing)
-Pre-heavyweight wood coach/combine frame, (altered to building) old Portsmouth, NH roundhouse
-BAR 40' steel boxcar, Loudon Rd. Concord, NH
 #545602  by bmcdr
 
The MBTA Commuter Rail Division has a wide variety of former B&M and MEC freight cars that were left behind when the T and B&M parted company. out between BET and former yard 14 you will find an old MEC ACF covered hopper and a former B&M PS-2 covered hopper, both formerly in BET sand service. At the car shops at BET is a former B&M 50 ft PS-1 boxcar now painted white and off its trucks, used as a tool shed. Up on the "Paint Shop Lead" adjacent to the Fitchburg mainline are a 50 ft B&M milk car and a very old 36 ft B&M hopper car that is rumored to be formerly Pennsylvania RR before that. Then there are the two ex B&M PS-1 40 ft boxcars that used to be at the Boston Navy Yard that the T acquired recently. Also, not to be forgotten, are the two Budd RDC-2's over in old Yard-2 (everybody keeps calling them "Boise Budds", which they are not!) these are left over from the aborted crew quarters scheme of a few years ago.

Its sad really, that we are searching for relics from a railroad that was once a dynamic part of the New England economy and one of the biggest employers in the city of Boston, now just a memory.
 #545782  by Guilford Guy
 
Rumor on the Guilford forum is that a B&M pullman is heading to New England this July...
 #551312  by H.F.Malone
 
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?
 #552167  by H.F.Malone
 
The steel caboose, #472, are you sure about that number?

Yes I am; why do you doubt it?
 #552382  by snowskier
 
Don't forget the refurbished Salisbury Beach Pullman coming to Boston 7/4 and hopefully making several round trips to Portland.
Anyone know if any other B&M coor sided passenger cars are still around?
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