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14919
An estate has a copy of Phil's B&M book that is for sale. The estate is asking $75 plus shipping for same. If interested, contact me off line and put book in...
Bob Warren
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Feb 1, 2005
1:58 pm
14920
... Where does one order these things? Same question applies for the new new A&R B&M DVD, too. ;-) -Dave "out here in kal-E-fornia" Falkenburg...
Dave Falkenburg
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Feb 2, 2005
12:41 am
14921
The A&R video is well done. Someone asked about the web site: http://www.a-and-rproductions.com Volume 3 of the Friends of Bedford Depot Park, Films of John...
Sean McInerney
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Feb 2, 2005
2:26 am
14922
Dear Brian, Thanks for all the interesting details which I've saved for future reference. The DSS's are curious enuf, but why did the B&M pull the block ...
Alden Dreyer
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Feb 2, 2005
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14923
does a prototype really exist of the USA Trains (G Scale) 50' AAR Double Door Boxcar - blue with black doors and the 'intertwined B-on- M' logo? here's the...
murlhaggard
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Feb 2, 2005
11:39 pm
14924
... They could go to Barnett, VT, and ask Dr. Kendall to photograph and measure the last remaining example of these. One of the Car Builders Cyclopedias also...
Earl Tuson
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Feb 3, 2005
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14925
B&M Employee Timetables refer to North Walpole Yard at mp 84.58 (from SPG) on the Conn River Main, just above Bellows Falls. Was this a few tracks and a...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:39 am
14926
... No. The only B&M 50' DD Boxes were the circa 1970's #70000 series, and that had the Boston & Maine spelled out. Tim Gilbert...
Tim Gilbert
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Feb 3, 2005
1:15 am
14927
On page 12 of R. Nimke's Conn. River Lines, et. al., Vol. II, there is a track diagram of the yard at North Walpole, N.H.. It shows all tracks and when they...
Norman+Laraine Larkin
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Feb 3, 2005
3:29 am
14928
... 36-foot wood ... measure the last remaining example of these. One of the Car Builders Cyclopedias also has the underframe drawing for these cars. ... I...
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Feb 3, 2005
9:55 am
14929
... IMO this was a result of the decision to concentrate capital investment (heavy rail, bridge strengthening) on the Northern to WRJ. It could handle S-1s and...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:21 pm
14930
... I bought this, but strictly from hunger. Instead of printing a number of photos, Roseman made sketches from them. I don't know if this was unwillingness...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:22 pm
14931
... The GP-7s were allowed 65 MPH in the ETT, like other roadswitchers and the F-units (I think this means 65:12 gears). Only the E's could go 70+. ... The...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:23 pm
14932
At its greatest extent, the Conn River, North Walpole yard consisted of a middle track between the mains and five sidings on the west side of what was ...
Scott J. Whitney
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Feb 3, 2005
12:40 pm
14933
How much foreign power ran on the Cheshire Branch?...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:54 pm
14934
This question was asked a while back, so I thought I'd respond. During the summer of 1959 and again during the spring of 1961 the NH leased B&M engines for...
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Feb 3, 2005
12:55 pm
14935
That's a very interesting question. I have not heard of any at all except the daily delivery of Rutland trains to the B&M in the yard at N. Walpole. Were...
Scott J. Whitney
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Feb 3, 2005
1:14 pm
14936
Did Rutland power appear in Boston? Norm Larkin ... From: Scott J. Whitney To: BM_RR@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:14 AM Subject: Re:...
Norman+Laraine Larkin
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Feb 3, 2005
2:33 pm
14937
... Dating from the mid-1930's thru at least the 1947-era, B&M Employee's Timetables contain the reference that CV Railway engines Class 600, (4-8-2), or Maine...
Bill Keay
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Feb 3, 2005
4:50 pm
14938
I have never seen a photograph of Rutland power on the Cheshire Branch, the Fitchburg Main, or in Boston. Rutland passenger equipment (including milk cars) is...
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Feb 3, 2005
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14939
Anyone know anything about a Sunrise Express operated by the B&M back in the early days of the 20th century. According to a newspaper item from the Biddeford...
Bob Warren
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Feb 3, 2005
7:39 pm
14940
I have never seen a photograph of Rutland power on the Cheshire Branch, the Fitchburg Main Jim: The cover of the B&M Bulletin 14 No. 4 (I think--the "West End...
John Alan Roderick
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Feb 3, 2005
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14941
About what year ? I can check in my 1901 and 1922 Official Guides for that name. But I suspect that it was most likely a local usage rather than an official...
Malcolm Laughlin
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Feb 3, 2005
8:10 pm
14942
I believe Rutland/Green Mountain did. ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com...
Alan Clark
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Feb 3, 2005
8:45 pm
14943
Well, yes that is true that Blount's Monadnock Steamtown & Northern did operate non-B&M power on the Cheshire branch for a while. Green Mountain did operate...
Scott J. Whitney
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Feb 3, 2005
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14944
I was asked if I knew anything about such a named train. The query came from someone in Sanford, ME who included a copy of items that happened a number of...
Bob Warren
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Feb 3, 2005
9:05 pm
14945
I have only to assume that Rutland engines ran through on occasion on the Mt. Royal and possibly an occasional Milk Train. All of this was before my time of...
John Alan Roderick
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Feb 3, 2005
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14946
The Rutland and B&M power ran through to Troy most likely because there was no bona fide(steam) engine terminal to make the power swap between North Bennington...
Dave Wright
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Feb 4, 2005
1:34 am
14947
OK, my mind is a blank right now and I have not time to research it... The E-7's allowed on the Cheshire, yes? If so, I would imagine that the MEC E-7's...
Scott J. Whitney
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Feb 4, 2005
11:12 am
14948
Norm Larkin wrote: "Did Rutland power appear in Boston?" The consensus seems to be "no" -- would the need to have ATS or cab signals or whatever on the Rutland...
Doug Drew
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Feb 4, 2005
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