Nostalgia & History > Mike Ondecker Photo - B&M 1734

Today BNSF and UP can be seen coming through Akron, Ohio, but fifty years ago Boston and Maine could be seen.
In 1968, Mike Ondecker caught B&M 1734 heading east on the EL past the EL passenger station in Akron, Ohio.
Bob

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I thought just EL and D&H were in Dereco. Was B&M, also?

1710 WAS TOTALED in a run thew coal train wreck in asterbula Ohio on I think p c I was working for b and m and heard about it .I started in 71 and it head to be that year or 72. when it happened



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/18 20:50 by bobgfla.

Probably a power pool arrangement with the E-L

Excellent and rare photo of a little publicized run through operation.
ALLEN

krm152 Wrote:
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> Excellent and rare photo of a little publicized
> run through operation.
> ALLEN


Absolutely I hadn’t heard of it until I saw this thread!

There were several attempts to establish power pools between B&M, D&H, (plus or minus EL) through the late 1960s and 1970s.

Most of the pools that involved B&M were short-lived, only a few months as I recall. But the D&H/EL ones survived right up until Conrail in 1976.

The merger picture was kinda murky during that period. Prior to Dereco, Buck Dumaine tried to put together mergers that would have included at least B&M and D&H, and I think one of the attempts also included EL.

Even as late as 1978, after Conrail but prior to the Guilford takeover, the B&M/D&H pool was re-established.

march_hare Wrote:
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> There were several attempts to establish power
> pools between B&M, D&H, (plus or minus EL) through
> the late 1960s and 1970s.
>
> Most of the pools that involved B&M were
> short-lived, only a few months as I recall.

Possibly because the B&M’s most modern power at the time was six GP18s, while the EL and D&H continued to buy higher horsepower second generation units throughout the sixties. The B&M’s first second-gen units were the 200-series GP38-2s acquired in 1972.

Dave

pennsy3750 Wrote:
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> Probably a power pool arrangement with the E-L reciprocate?  I don't remember seeing any of their units.