Remembering Boston & Maine and Maine Central passenger trains

North Station, Boston
Aerial view of North Station, Boston, circa 1946–47.
Classic Trains coll.

Mountaineer
Boston–Littleton/Bethlehem, N.H., Mountaineer departing Boston, June 1946.
Albert G. Hale

Eastern Route trains
Boston-bound (left) and northbound (to Portsmouth, N.H., or Rockport, Mass.) trains at Salem, Mass., March 1949.
C. Parker

Flying Yankee
Boston–Bangor Flying Yankee departing Portland, Maine, September 1939.
C. Parker

Maine Central 4-6-4
MEC class D 4-6-4 No. 702 at Waterville, Maine, 1946.
Peter Ascher

Train 3107
Boston–Lancaster, Mass., train 3107 at Clinton, January 1956.
Dan Foley

Train 57
Boston–Troy, N.Y., train 57 at Hoosac Tunnel, June 1949.
William D. Middleton

Trains to Portsmouth and Portland
Pacific 3664 on Boston–Portsmouth, N.H., train 241 and E7 3811 on Boston–Portland, Maine, train 147 at East Somerville, Mass., August 1946.
Albert G. Hale

Maine Central E7
MEC E7 No. 708 in early maroon-yellow-silver livery.
Electro-Motive

Train 57
Boston–Troy, N.Y., train 57 at Greenfield, Mass., June 1956.
John Buchanan

B&M gas-electric car
Electro-Motive gas-electric car 152, one of three built for B&M in 1926.
B&M

Kennebec Limited
B&M E7 with Boston–Bangor Kennebec Limited arriving Portland, Maine, July 1947.
C. Parker

Pine Tree
B&M 4-8-2 No. 4113 Invincible departing North Station with Boston–Portland Pine Tree, June 1946.
Albert G. Hale

Baggage-RPO-locomotive 1140
B&M Ingersoll-Rand/St. Louis Car baggage-RPO-locomotive No. 1140 at Lawrence, Mass., 1936.
C. A. Brown

Minute Man
B&M 4-6-2 No. 3713 with Boston–Albany train 59, Minute Man, at Fitchburg, Mass., 1939.
Robert A. Hadley

B&M train 57
RS3 with Boston–Troy train 57 at Concord, Mass., spring 1952.
Parker Hayden 

Mountaineer
B&M E7 with MEC’s Portland–St. Johnsbury Mountaineer in Crawford Notch, N.H., mid-1940s.
B&M

MEC Farmington–Lewiston train
MEC 4-6-0 No. 361 with Farmington–Lewiston train at Farmington beside Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes 2-6-2 No. 24, circa 1934.
J. P. Martin

MEC Beechers Falls mixed
MEC 4-6-0 No. 367 with Beechers Falls mixed nearing summit in Crawford Notch.
R. E. Tobey