B&M BULLETIN,V30#4:STATE OF MAINE;YOUNG B&M FAN;HOOSAC TUNNEL WRECK;NAMED STEAM!

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Your bid is for a B&M BULLETIN, Volume 30, Number 4, published by the B&MRRHS, INC. in 2017 with Andrew M. Wilson as editor. This issue measures 21.5 by 27.8 cm and contains the usual 40 pages. The front cover photo by David G. Hutchinson was taken in East Deerfield on November 24, 1974. WHITE FLAGS starts off with: “A New Day for B&M Motive Power” and goes on to discuss what is new in MBTA territory; the proposed commuter service to Greenfield; summer weekend service to Rockland; and diesel VW’s stored in Ayer awaiting their fate. CONSISTS: FROM THE CAR BOOKS OF CONDUCTOR GEORGE W. COX, By COL (Ret.) Tom E. Thompson, details the makeup and operations on B&M Train No.81, State of Maine, from Worcester, Mass. To Portland, Me., Monday, Aug. 6, 1951, and Train No.88 going the other way later on the same date. This article fills a dozen pages that include as many photographs, as well as track layout drawings at Worcester and Portland Union Stations. Great reading! The B&M and the Younger Railfan- PIECING TOGETHER THE BOSTON & MAINE, by Andrew Riedl, with Photos by the author. This 6 page piece gives us a refreshing perspective knowing that someone still cared after the A.D. era. No, not me, I refer to Alan Dustin. This article was a good use of B&M BULLETIN space in my opinion. See if you agree. There are 7 photos, all in color. Fifty Years Ago- THE GREAT HOOSAC TUNNEL “BOXCAR MINE” WRECK by Andrew W. Wilson, with Carl R. Byron and Alden H. Dreyer is a 4 page spread about what I consider to have been the most expensive wreck in B&M history, without knowing what settlements may have been made in psgr train disasters. “Boxcar Mine” was not anything you ever heard on the railroad, but whatever…. It all happened around 0800 on February 23, 1967, as MR-2 exited East Portal at speed, and things went very, very wrong, for numerous reasons. You can make a pretty good case that the railroads in New England never recovered from that event. Shippers no longer trusted the B&M to handle perishable traffic for many, many years. There are 6 photos included. B&M PR on Display - BOSTON & MAINE NAMED STEAMERS OF THE DEPRESSION ERA by Dwyer Wedvick fill out the story that most of us are aware of: the B&M asked school children to name new P-4 and R-1 steam locomotives. Such names would then be displayed on the sides of each Eng. So here, on 6 pages are who named which ones, and why, and from what school with lots of details. Then we move on to where the author located photos and movie footage with “readable” name plates. This exhaustive listing goes on for 6 pages! There are 8 small photos and an ad included.
RAILROAD TRADITIONS on the inside front cover honors the retirement of David S. Hutchinson from MBTA service after 43 years. The rear cover, in color, shows a “new” B80-8 trundling down the Greenville Branch in Ayer on January 26, 2018. Which verifies that although the copyright date above says 2017, this is a 2018 publication. This magazine is in unread, as-published condition direct from the B&MRRHS.
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