Bangor & Aroostook in O gauge?

Pretty nice looking paint scheme. this is the first I've seen it.

Williams did a BL-2  and I think they did a GP-7?  RMT did a Beep in dark blue if memory serves.

I like Lionel's 6464-275 Bangor & Aroostook boxcar. The paint scheme is really cool with the red, white, and blue!

But for motive power I do like the paint scheme, but never came across one...

Lionel MPC made a B&A.

This is not my picture, but this is the Bangor & Aroostook 6464-275 box car...

Williams also did the EMD switcher and it's a beauty as is the BL2. The GP7 was a different shade than the other two which was to bad.

 

Neil

In my opinion, I don't like the way Bl-2's look. But like I said, the paint scheme is cool!

If you lived next door to the Bangor & Aroostook roundhouse like I did then you would have loved them.  Unfortunately they are long gone here as is that railroad. One still exists here on display at a transportation museum here in Bangor and there is one running on the Saratoga and North Springs RR in NY which was a former B&A unit. I understand they have bought a second one as well.

 

Neil

I would LOVE to live next to a roundhouse. The rest of my family would have hated the noise at night, but I'm sure it would make me fall asleep!!!

You're so right.  My father lived near a Lehigh Valley switching yard back in the Thirties, when he was a kid.  He told me that many was the night he fell asleep listening to the crash of hoppers being switched, and the screams of steam whistles.

 

Get an all time roster of the BAR locomotives.

 

Compare that list to the production of the O gauge model companies.

 

 

http://www.thedieselshop.us/BAR.HTML

       
       


Cool story! I love the sound of steam whistles!

My grandparents live right next to a yard. At night, they say that you can hear the bang of the cars being switched, and the occasional horn.

MTH did a pair of Railking Geeps in that scheme.  still waiting on the F3s, both in the original scheme and the blue dip livery. Really want to see the BAR E7s and the matching stainless passenger cars.

These are kitbashes of a Williams BL-2 & a Weaver troop sleeper.

Malcolm

MTH did an F3, SW9, GP38 and BL-2 in two fifferent paint schemes

 

 

WOW. I completley forgot all these were made by MTH. 

 

I really like this kit bashed version of the BL-2.  Nice detail added. 

Very nice kitbashed models Brother Love!  Here are a few photos of the B&A locos I have, all are Williams.  The solid blue units were custom painted by David Kenyon who lives in central Maine.

Did Williams ever do the solid blue version?  I never remember seeing one? 

I´ll have 4 BAR engines and 30 BAR State of Maine box car and some anothers BAR cars like a Weawer reefers and coal hoppers and Lionel reefers. O-scale BAR E7 would be a also really nice. Here is also couple our BAR -videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...8Q0WixJxKstHt-NpiBRg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?...8Q0WixJxKstHt-NpiBRg

Gee, I don't think I ever saw a B&A unit that weathered. Most of them were immaculate until the later years when times started getting hard for them and the potato business fell off. Brother Love, that buggy (B&A for caboose) is absolutely beautiful. I bought a Weaver troop sleeper but at my age I never found the will power to convert it. Maybe some day.

 

Neil

What I find appeals to me are the silver trucks which set off the colorful paint of the B&A as well as many others.

Here are some of the nice images online...

Can you imagine what a string of these would look like on our pike?

 

Look at the detail on this model

Can't get enough of those boxcars!

This would be a nice on O-scale. BAR E7 #10. Really beauty.

I never saw a ratty looking B&A locomotive in the 1960 while living up in "the county".  The old B&A was a real classy small railroad.  I would venture to say they had few equals for their size.  Can any small regional railroad top their State of Maine cars in popularity in all modeling scales?  I can't think of any.

I have two BL-2s Williams and MTH and the lionel 1976 GP-9 jeramia obrian with caboose.

Check out this site. There are many good BAR photos.

 

http://users.silcon.com/~lgoss/Homepage.htm

Very much coincidental seeing this BAR thread.  I was just in Bangor last week meeting with the CMQ folks.  Still a few BAR alumni left at 15 Iron Road but, they are definitely getting fewer.

Curt

Yes, the 8665 GP-9 and matching caboose, around 1976.

 

Is the GP-9 chassis  intechabable with a modern lionel GP-9 so I can upgrade?
Mike

All the time between 1990-2000 there were numerous bright red BAR 50' Plug-Door Box Cars on the Grand Trunk Western. I miss seeing them often in the trains. Now I only have my O Gauge and O Scale BAR box cars from MTH and Lionel.

 

 

Andrew

They sure did roster some interesting paint schemes...I like most of em to...

Yes.  I mounted mine to an SP with TMCC so I wouldn't have to paint the trucks.

 

You will need to line the ends on the inside with foil tape.  Otherwise the headlights will show right through the shell.

 

Fred

Lionel BAR 50' Boxcar and MTH RailKing BAR Modern Boxcar.

 

 

Weaver Models is currently selling the BAR 57' Mechanical Refrigerators