Surviving B&M equipment

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

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

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

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...

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

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..

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.

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

A couple more from 2009

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.