I hope I can get some help here identifying what is in this picture
This picture is taken looking generally southward. The Reading depot is down the tracks to the left. This area is now only single tracked, but is active on the commuter rail line to Haverhill.
Note the roundhouse with engines in the distance.
I don't have a date for this image. I don't even know when the B&M ceased steam service here. Mid-to-late 1950s perhaps?
--Joe
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Nobody?
Was the "streamliner" a regular on the B&M, or was it just visiting?
--Joe
The Flying Yankee is pointed northward if the depot is off to the left, and it looks like it's already been renamed The Mountaineer or The Minuteman. That train was retired in 1957. B&M ceased steam service in 1956. I think this photo predates that era.
The coaches and combine in the photo are open vestibule wooden cars with truss rods. According to "The Unofficial Boston and Maine Railroad Page", "Most of the open-platform wood cars were replaced by several large purchases of second-hand steel commuter coaches between 1940 and 1952." This likely dates the photo as prior to 1950. The name plate on the front of the streamliner is not square as it would be for the original Flying Yankee, it looks to be rectangular like the Mountaineer as postulated above. The name change was a WWII change, narrowing the photo to the mid-late 1940's. That's all I've got! 
Thanks, Jumijo & Bob.
I never paid attention to the model Flying Yankee (or subsequent incarnations). Now that I know it went thru town on the line I had used to commute on, it is much more interesting.
And identifying the passenger cars is good. I've not seen models of 20th Century passenger cars with truss bars.
With the storage of all those cars, and several engines in the round house, I guess lots of runs originated in Reading going to Boston. Looks like they accumulated here in the afternoon, and sent them to Boston on the morning commute.
There still are trains that originate here to Boston, but they are just "turnarounds" from Boston rather than continuing up to Haverhill.
The turntable's location is a parking lot now for apartment buildings, one of which sits where the roundhouse foundation was.
--Joe
MTH made a run of 64ft Woodsided coaches in B&M that feature truss rods and are somewhat close to these. If your into building your own. Labelle offers some nice kits. As far as motive power for the B&M. Models of both Pacifics and Moguls are available.
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