A word to the wise... I received my long-awaited Rutland Car Shops "4x8" B&M SUF baggage- express car kits today. As with the earlier 8x8 cars they are being ...
... When I rode B-21/22 in 1969 or so, we ran into the lower end of the westerly hump (easterly was gone by then), pulled up to Mystic Jct., cut off, backed...
John, Your bad experience sent me running to the train room to check my 4x8 baggage car kit. I purchased mine at the West Springfield Show back in January....
... "Paula Zahn" show on CNN this Wednesday 3 August at 7 PM (CDT) local time, to discuss the incident of their detention/harassment by Morton Grove and METRA...
... Dan, Walthers does not list it yet. B&M Livery? No Way would the Pioneer Zephyr be correct a correct Flying Yankee - compare the first car of a Zephyr with...
Looks like some kitbashing is in order but not impossible. Accucalc used to have a passenger Multi-Pack that had decaling for the Yankee's various liveries....
Hi Dan, I saw the Zephyr sets at my local hobby shop a couple of weeks ago. They will need alot of rework to get the windows and bagage doors right. The...
The trick to using the truss supports supplied with the kit is to cut off the excess height on the top. This can be done fairly easily with an XACTO knife ...
Thanks for the info. Dick--At what shop did you see the models? It finally occured to me to go to http://www.flyingyankee.com where there is a nice ...
It has shipped, we got in the 2 we ordered at the store I work at. It's very well done, runs very smooth and quiet. Can't speak for doing it up B&M. There are...
... 4x8 baggage car kit. I purchased mine at the West Springfield Show back in January. Luckily, I found my kit nicely packaged in the traditional tissue...
From: James Van Bokkelen Subject: Re: 1962 Local Freight Schedule There were a number of B&M locals out of Boston which originated at BET/Mystic and ran to an...
Loosly associated with the B&M....... ... To: "D&H Group" <dandh@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 14:15 Subject: [dandh] Guilford air carrier...
Gee, Fink sounds just like he does when the railroad is called into question about most anything that it should be doing but isn't. The robber barons of the...
... Malcolm, B-15 & B-16 were not listed in the October 1962 Symbol Freight Schedules. Indeed, no local left Boston in the eighteen hours between Noon and 6 AM...
... Bob, By itself, I don't think your list is of any great help for analysis. A list of wrecks of a certain class of cars can be of some use, however. For...
When was the local D-6 added out of Dover My best friend's father was a brakeman on D-6 when I was growing up in Exeter. We would wait for hours for them to...
... Mike, There was no D-6 listed in the October 1962 Symbol Freight Train Book. Do you know where D-6 turned in order to return to Dover as D-5? In the 1962...
Mr. Fink may have been able to get away with forcing infractions of FRA Hours Of Service requirements, etc., but airline crew scheduling and HOS under the...
From: Tim Gilbert Subject: Re: Local freight schedules Was B-16 called in West Cambridge at 10:30 PM where it transferred the cars from B-4, B-10 and B-16 to...
... It looks like West Cambridge became a pick up point for BM-5 and a drop for MB-6. It is debatable whether this was the most efficient method to operate. If...
FWIW, I recall during the mid-late 70s BE-1 doing work in the North Yard at W. Cambridge. This would often involve a half-hour or more. I presume this was to...
... between ... arrangement ... B-15 and 16 not even in 1960 Symbol Book. I scanned the cover, inside symbol freight index and all Boston and Fitchburg local...
<<Thanks Don for sharing the photo of Groveton... When I was Engineer for the NHVT up there, ex B&M Engineer Rudy Hood rode with me quite a few times while...
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Don (or anyone): Can you tell me definitively what the typical routing of westbounds was from Mystic? I have been in discussion recently with Gerry Babyok...
John, I think the main was used for outbound locals and symbol freights. But some one who worked on freights or dispatching would have more knowledge than...
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