Nostalgia & History > Some Boston & Maine Geeps

1. B&M 1708 and 1750 in Mechanicville, NY on August 14, 1970. 1708 was a GP9 built in March 1957 and 1750 was a GP18 built May 1961.

2. B&M 1718 in Mechanicville, NY on August 14, 1970 was a GP9 built in November 1957.

3. B&M 1750 in Mechanicville, NY on August 14, 1970 was a GP18 built May 1961.


Enjoy,
Marty Bernard

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Kind of liked that scheme. Things getting a bit dirty by this 1970 date.

TJY

I remember seeing three or four of the "Bluebirds" (GP9s) powering the hot freights on the B&M through Ayer in 1971. I didn't see the GP18s very often, but that might have just been the luck-of-the-draw as I didn't get trackside that often and there were fewer of them. I have some amateur Y tube footage of his action including one GP7 that was almost yellow because the paint had faded so bad. One caboose in the movie footage is rusted badly. I remember the B&M guys calling their cabooses "Buggies".

Victor A. Baird
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