Rigby Yard Pics

Hi,

My name is Rob and I live in Portland, Maine. We bought my two year old son a Brio set this past year and he's become a big fan of "choo choos". We had an HO layout as a kid, so his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me and I've become a budding railfan myself. Until I can start that HO layout in the basement, my son and I have been visting the narrow gauge museum in town weekly and driving over to Rigby Yards in South Portland to see what we can see.

Today, we took our camera with us and took some digital pictures. I've toss them up at the following site:
http://homepage.mac.com/rcarignan/PhotoAlbum25.html

Could anyone tell me what locomotives we're looking at?

The last image was taken nearby Rigby at Calvary Cemetery. My great-grandfather was a railroad man. He was a fireman, then an engineer on the Grand Trunk in the 1910's. His grave is 10' from the mainline out of Portland.

Rob Carignan
Portland, Maine

Those are Guilford engines. The sites below have a roster of engine types. Take a peek:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/gfrd1986.html
http://www.ole.net/~rcraig/GRS.HTML
http://berkshiretrain.50megs.com/html/index_roster.html
http://members.fortunecity.com/oldlapto ... oster.html

Hi Rob,

Springfield Terminal 215 and 216 are EMD GP35s.
The two Boston & Maine units in the third photo (with the sand tower in the foreground) are EMD GP40s.
Maine Central 350 is an EMD GP40.
The Maine Central snow plows were built by Russell in the 1930s.

A complete, up-to-date Guilford locomotive roster can be found here:

http://www.rrnne.net/GRSLoco.htm

Photos of many Guilford locomotives can be found here:

http://naphotos.nerail.org/show/?byrail:1:Guilford

and here:

http://www.railpictures.net
(search for Guilford)