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Railroads & Locomotives Fallen Flags Remembering Boston & Maine Railroad freight trains

Remembering Boston & Maine Railroad freight trains

By Angela Cotey | October 21, 2019

| Last updated on December 8, 2020

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Boston & Maine is Classic Trains' Railroad of the Month for October 2019

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Chesapeake and Ohio
Mountain-type steam power
An unidentified Boston & Maine Railroad 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotive pulls westbound freight train PM-3 through Ayer, Mass., in the early 1940s.
Wayne Brumbaugh
Chesapeake and Ohio
a steam engine passenger train
Mogul led freight train
Boston & Maine Railroad 2-6-0 Mogul-type locomotive No. 1455 heads a short freight on the Hillsboro, N.H., branch at Elmwood in 1949.
R.E. Tobey
a steam engine passenger train
a diesel freight train
FT freight run in New York State
Boston & Maine Railroad EMD FT locomotive No. 4222 passes JV Tower at Johnsonville, N.Y., with a westbound freight for Mechanicville, N.Y., in 1953.
Jim Shaughnessy
a diesel freight train
an electric freight train
Freight motors on duty
Boston & Maine Railroad electric freight motors Nos. 5002 and 5003 have tied onto a 2-8-4 Berkshire-type locomotive to drag it and its westbound train over the Hoosac Tunnel electric district in Massachusetts in 1940.
J.P. Ahrens
an electric freight train
a steam engine freight train
"Mass" freight train
Boston & Maine Railroad 2-8-0 Consolidation-type No. 2404 curves around the wye at Lowell Junction, Mass., with a local freight from Lawrence, Mass.
Donald G. Hills
a steam engine freight train
a diesel freight train
Dash 2 power
Boston & Maine Railroad EMD GP40-2 general purpose-type locomotive No. 308 and two sister locomotives head East Deerfield (Mass.) to Mechanicville, N.Y., freight EDME west near Charlemont, Mass., in 1980.
Jack Armstrong
a diesel freight train
a steam freight train
Heavy steam freight
Boston & Maine Railroad 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive No. 2662 departs St. Johnsbury, Vt., with a Newport, Vermont, to White River Junction, Vermont, freight train in 1946. At right are two Maine Central 2-8-2 Mikado-type locomotives, just in from Portland, Maine.
Philip R. Hastings
a steam freight train
a steam freight train
Merrimac River freight train
Boston & Maine Railroad 2-6-0 Mogul-type locomotive No. 1464 rolls south along the Merrimac River with a short freight at Tyngsboro, Mass.
Leo Litwin
a steam freight train
a freight train in the background approaching a diesel in the foreground
Vintage diesels meet
Boston & Maine Railroad’s first EMD FT locomotive, No. 4200, on an eastbound freight meets the road’s first EMD GP9 general purpose type locomotive, No. 1700, at Mechanicville, N.Y., in 1957.
Jim Shaughnessy
a freight train in the background approaching a diesel in the foreground
a freight train going off into the distance with a caboose in the foreground on a winter day
Beautiful B&M caboose shot!
Boston & Maine Railroad freight train JS-2 from — White River Junction, Vermont, and bound for Springfield, Vermont — is on Central Vermont tracks beside the Connecticut River 3 miles south of Brattleboro, Vt., in 1978.
Jim Shaughnessy
a freight train going off into the distance with a caboose in the foreground on a winter day

All this month — October 2019 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Boston & Maine Railroad.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include B&M steam-powered freight trains through time.

You might also enjoy this B&M history article from Classic Trains, a photo gallery of Boston & Maine passenger trains, or a photo gallery of locomotives!

Only from Classic Trains!

One thought on “Remembering Boston & Maine Railroad freight trains”

  1. Richard Potter says:
    October 21, 2019 at 1:46 am

    I think maybe that should be Newport Vermont

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