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Other than a MTH BL2 has anyone else produced motive power in the handsome Bangor & Aroostook scheme?  In looking at images online there seems to be a small variety of various colorful engines, the Blue Parrot business car, and the popular 'BAR' reefer.  I'd like to have some F units like these HO models...

 

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If you lived next door to the Bangor & Aroostook roundhouse like I did then you would have loved them.  Unfortunately they are long gone here as is that railroad. One still exists here on display at a transportation museum here in Bangor and there is one running on the Saratoga and North Springs RR in NY which was a former B&A unit. I understand they have bought a second one as well.

 

Neil

Originally Posted by Keys6700:
I would LOVE to live next to a roundhouse. The rest of my family would have hated the noise at night, but I'm sure it would make me fall asleep!!!

You're so right.  My father lived near a Lehigh Valley switching yard back in the Thirties, when he was a kid.  He told me that many was the night he fell asleep listening to the crash of hoppers being switched, and the screams of steam whistles.

 

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Originally Posted by Keys6700:
I would LOVE to live next to a roundhouse. The rest of my family would have hated the noise at night, but I'm sure it would make me fall asleep!!!

You're so right.  My father lived near a Lehigh Valley switching yard back in the Thirties, when he was a kid.  He told me that many was the night he fell asleep listening to the crash of hoppers being switched, and the screams of steam whistles.

 


       


Cool story! I love the sound of steam whistles!

My grandparents live right next to a yard. At night, they say that you can hear the bang of the cars being switched, and the occasional horn.

Gee, I don't think I ever saw a B&A unit that weathered. Most of them were immaculate until the later years when times started getting hard for them and the potato business fell off. Brother Love, that buggy (B&A for caboose) is absolutely beautiful. I bought a Weaver troop sleeper but at my age I never found the will power to convert it. Maybe some day.

 

Neil

What I find appeals to me are the silver trucks which set off the colorful paint of the B&A as well as many others.

Here are some of the nice images online...

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I never saw a ratty looking B&A locomotive in the 1960 while living up in "the county".  The old B&A was a real classy small railroad.  I would venture to say they had few equals for their size.  Can any small regional railroad top their State of Maine cars in popularity in all modeling scales?  I can't think of any.

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