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I grew up abouut 250 feet from the B&M mainline between Mechanicville, N Y and I think the Greenfield part of the B & M line.  I have an RS3 and 2 G P 9'in Boston and Maine.

they serviced Troy, NY, where I now live , and came down 8 th street, there is still part of the roundhouse at 8th and Middleburg even now. My uncle was an engineer , but perished in 1963 from a DUI accedent in Greenfield. A lot of my history with the B&M.

Fred

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I'm from the Portland area originally and have nice memories of B&M blue and Maine Central gold. Here's a few items from my little collection.

 

The F3 is a Williams cab on an old Lionel chassis, the caboose is from Weaver, and the GP9 is the one Santa brought me when I was five. It rides on an LTI chassis with a better motor/reverse unit than it originally had. The crane, gondola, and RDC are from MTH.

 

I'm kind of surprised MTH hasn't re-released these Budd cars, as B&M is known for having bought the largest fleet of any road. They were very common in metro Boston into the '80s.

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I've been looking into picking up some B&M boxcars.  I'm from the Boston area, so I feel like I really should have them on my layout.  I do remember there use to be three old B&M boxcars on a siding I think by the old Boston/Charleston Navy Yard.  My dad would take me when I was younger to see the USS constitution, but I was equally interested in seeing those boxcars and following the rails sunk in the pavement for the cranes and I assume supply cars

AG:

I love that ball signal!

About 8-10 years ago I had to be at one of our plants east of Montreal.  I had read an article in TRAINS magazine about ball signals and learned the last one supposedly in existence was at Whitefield, NH.  Rather than fly into Montreal like any normal person would do, I flew instead into Manchester, NH and drove up through the White Mountains with a detour to Whitefield so I could see that ball signal.

Curt
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AG:

I love that ball signal!

About 8-10 years ago I had to be at one of our plants east of Montreal.  I had read an article in TRAINS magazine about ball signals and learned the last one supposedly in existence was at Whitefield, NH.  Rather than fly into Montreal like any normal person would do, I flew instead into Manchester, NH and drove up through the White Mountains with a detour to Whitefield so I could see that ball signal.

Curt

That's the spirit!

In NH you can see this one in North Conway.

here is another one.

I have four Lionel 6-17235 Boston & Maine Std. O Boxcars. I would part with any number of them if you're interested. E-mail is in my profile.
 
Originally Posted by AXP889:

I've been looking into picking up some B&M boxcars.  I'm from the Boston area, so I feel like I really should have them on my layout.  I do remember there use to be three old B&M boxcars on a siding I think by the old Boston/Charleston Navy Yard.  My dad would take me when I was younger to see the USS constitution, but I was equally interested in seeing those boxcars and following the rails sunk in the pavement for the cranes and I assume supply cars

 

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Why are there so many diverse Boston & Maine diesel locomotives, but there are so few O Scale Boston and Maine freight cars?

 

Atlas, Lionel, and MTH have to produce more Boston and Maine freight cars such as Three-Bay Open-Top Hoppers, ACF Center Flow 3560 Cu Ft. 3-bay Covered Hoppers, Evans Products modern gondolas, modern single-door exterior-braced 50' box cars, and Evans Products rib-sided two-bay covered hoppers.

 

Boston and Maine Evans Products covered hopper

 

Andrew

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