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15302
Actually, one of my partners in crime does and if we can get him off his arse he might get it copied to a manageable size. SJW ... From: "bluenosedviking"...
Scott J. Whitney
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Apr 1, 2005
10:59 am
15303
Regarding the "PanAm" boxcars, the blue resembles the blue which first started being used in the mid-1950's by McGinnis. That 1950's blue seemed to bleach as...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 1, 2005
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15304
The connection was close to Mechanicville. The 1901 Official Guide shows a couple of daily MV trains each way. I'll check this out after I get home...
Malcolm Laughlin
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Apr 1, 2005
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15305
"rangerjim94us01" <rangerjim94us01@y...> wrote: Does anyone know where the Boston and Maine's Saratoga Springs branch ran between that town and the connection...
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Apr 1, 2005
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15306
Interesting timetables. Two first class and two second class each way between MV and Saratoga, but no date. Anyone know the date ? john148ny...
Malcolm Laughlin
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Apr 1, 2005
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15307
Am looking for views of B&M gas-mechanical car #101 (Brill model 55) other than those which appeared in the March 1974 BMRRHS Bulletin. Contact off line if you...
Bruce C Bowden
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Apr 2, 2005
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15308
Hi Group: Guilford had some cabooses painted up in orange with gray stripe...No. 644 was one...I believe this was ex-MEC. Did Guilford paint up any other...
George Dutka
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Apr 3, 2005
1:22 am
15309
I have just purchased 3 Roundhouse kits on eBay, they are: (1) 68400 B&M Diner, (2) 68200 B&M Observation, and (3) 68300 B&M Combine. They are all Pullman...
Jim
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Apr 3, 2005
1:23 am
15310
Hello everyone, This question started out with a photo of a Penn Central locomotive on RailPicutres.net. The photo is at the following URL: ...
Mark Heiden
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Apr 3, 2005
1:24 am
15311
... On the B&M, the cubic capacity of all the single sheathed 1923 Design cars 3,064; the 25 steel cars of that design were 3,056 cubic feet. Between 1/1967...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 3, 2005
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15312
... I doubt that these three Roundhouse kits replicate anything on the B&M, but the color which you would like to continue the fiction would depend upon the...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 3, 2005
2:35 am
15313
... Best photo archive may be http://photos.nerail.org/search/ and use advance search for "caboose" at both B&M or MEC. That, at least, restricts the number of...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 3, 2005
2:04 pm
15314
Hi George, The back of the Caboose book by Solomon and Gruber has a Guilford orange buggy of D&H heritage. No gray stripe. Guilford ran two transfer style...
Sean McInerney
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Apr 3, 2005
6:51 pm
15315
Hi Tim, Thanks for the reply. I wonder if these were one-off rebuilding projects by the WAG shops to increase the cubic capacity a bit. Mark Heiden ... ...
Mark Heiden
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Apr 4, 2005
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15316
... I have no idea of why the cubic capacity was raised. Tim Gilbert...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 4, 2005
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15317
... I have the diner, a sleeper, and the combine kit. All of mine are factory painted (maroon). The cars are a wood prototype with handsomely arched windows...
David J. Starr
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Apr 6, 2005
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15318
As reported on the front page of the 4/6 issue of "The Suncook Valley Sun": The Pittsfield Historical Society will conduct a program on the Suncook Valley...
Jon Miner
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Apr 7, 2005
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15319
... one is ... Hello Scott: Thanks for sharing these. I seem to recall that in the 1980's, when I recovered the Main Street signal case for Seashore Trolley...
brian
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Apr 7, 2005
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15320
Hi Guys - Did the R1a's have the B&M Speed lettering ? Someone said it was only applied to the R1d's. Anyone have any knowledge about this ? Thanks. - Jimi - ...
Jimi Smith
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Apr 8, 2005
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15321
There was a busy passenger service on that line in 1901 - two trains each way on the Mechanicville end and four on the Saratoga end. rangerjim94us01...
Malcolm Laughlin
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Apr 8, 2005
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15322
Hello All, Here's one to consider: Let's say you (OK its me) are modeling the Cheshire Branch in 1956 from Winchendon to Keene. Fitchburg/Points East and...
monadnockrr
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Apr 9, 2005
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15323
To all of those in this group who sent information regarding B&M interlocking towers, our thanks. We came up with a spreadsheet locating everything we were...
Don Shultz
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Apr 9, 2005
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15324
Hi: I recall that Passenger Service ended on the Stoneham Branch in 1958. I recall seeing Budd Cars being used in the last days. Don't remember the month or...
Kevin T. Farrell
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Apr 9, 2005
3:21 am
15325
Somerville Jct. once had an armstrong interlocking tower. This would have been prior to about 1927. It was located at the dogleg of what was once the eastern...
John Alan Roderick
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Apr 9, 2005
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15326
... Tim _?, According to Ken Akerboom's 1955 Industry List in the Groups files, Fitzwilliam had no industries while Troy NH had the Troy Blanket Mills. In...
Tim Gilbert
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Apr 9, 2005
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15327
Should West Concord be on the list, with the diamond crossings of the New Haven's Framingham and Lowell on the Fitchburg Main? At Concord Mass. itself, I think...
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Apr 9, 2005
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15328
I know it's well before the era you wish to portray, but at one time there were a LOT of granite quarries in the Fitzwilliam area. Scott Whitney and I learned...
John Alan Roderick
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Apr 9, 2005
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15329
That's a pretty tough question. Both Fitzwilliam and Troy had nearly identical passing and freight house track arangements but a mirror image to one another....
Scott J. Whitney
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Apr 9, 2005
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15330
didnt a spur branch off near the station in fitzwilliam. ... test'; "> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
DAVID DEMERITT
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Apr 9, 2005
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15331
I am looking for a ICC valuation map, or any other scaled map of the concord NH yard in or around 1955, If anyone can help that would be appreciated. thanks ...
Joe Linquata
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