Nostalgia & History > Boston & Maine Roundhouse, West Lebanon, NH, 1970

This visit took place on August 16, 1970. [EDIT, the town should be West Lebanon, NH.]

1. Overview

2. B&M 1576 and 1562. GP7 1576 was built in May 1953 and scrapped in June 1988. GP7 1562 was built in December 1950 and retired in December 1973.

3 and 4. B&M F7A 4265 was built in March 1949 and retired in 1981 after an electrical fire. Now on display at Gorham, NH.


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/18 17:54 by MartyBernard.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/16/18 13:39 by MartyBernard.

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Very nice set, surprised to see it was you. Thanks!!

Bob Jordan

Marty:

Thanks for sharing as I remember the B&M in the 1970s. I have a video on Y tube taken onboard 1576 at Ayer, Mass. in 1971 made from amateur super 8. (I was 13 when I took the movie.) Just one correction. 1944 is way too early for a GP7. Maybe that was a typo.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/16/18 14:59 by wabash2800.

Right Victor. It should read December 1950. Fixed it. Thanks. Marty

Those sand boxes are interesting. Did many other RRs have them like the GP7s? I don't recall seeing anyting like them before.

santafedan Wrote:
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> Those sand boxes are interesting. Did many other
> RRs have them like the GP7s? I don't recall
> seeing anyting like them before.


Those squared off boxes on the lower part of the long hood contained equipment for powering lights in trailing commuter coaches. Most of B&M’s GP7’s had this feature. CNJ and some CNW GP7’s also had this option.

Tom Coughlin,
Stow, MA

Tom, thanks for that info. I'll use it with the archive version . Marty

Brings back memories. Thanks for posting them.

Ken Goslett

what would pic#1 scene look like now?

Some beat-up locos there. B&M...."broken & malfunctioning"

It filed bankruptcy in December of that year. So who benefited from the valuable real estate sold (in Boston?), the B&M or Guilford? Never-the-less, I have some fond memories of the railroad in the early 70s. A very young teenager hoped to see the F units on the mainline at Ayer, but I guess they were all up North.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

ATSF3751 Wrote:
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> Some beat-up locos there. B&M...."broken &
> malfunctioning"



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/18 11:40 by wabash2800.