Boston and Maine car just purchased

While I don't own anything in that livery it is a nIce looking paint scheme.

-Greg

I have this from WBB.

Curt

Curt-  who makes that engine?  I've been looking for that engine in the paint scheme.

Williams by Bachmann.

Curt

That engine is very beautiful.  Do you know if lionel or MTH make this engine with this paint scheme?

If I collected freight cars, this is one I would have. Nice purchase.

Just did a few Wood chip cars for an OGR customer -

 

 

Bagelman:

I took a quick look at MTH using their product locator and it doesn't look like they have ever offered F units in this scheme.  Lionel has offered engines in the Bluebird scheme going back to the 1950's but, I don't recollect them offering it on an F unit either.

Curt

Thanks. I wish they would re make this engine with the paint scheme

Nice work juniata guy.  I also have the B&M F3.  I'm hoping WBB will offer a sound board to upgrade it.  

I grew up abouut 250 feet from the B&M mainline between Mechanicville, N Y and I think the Greenfield part of the B & M line.  I have an RS3 and 2 G P 9'in Boston and Maine.

they serviced Troy, NY, where I now live , and came down 8 th street, there is still part of the roundhouse at 8th and Middleburg even now. My uncle was an engineer , but perished in 1963 from a DUI accedent in Greenfield. A lot of my history with the B&M.

Fred

An old Marx boxcar, a Weaver caboose (one of my favorites) and a Williams BL-2 (I always want to write BLT, but that's just me and food.)   Some think of the BL-2 as ugly, but I like to think of it as ruggedly handsome.

Boston & Maine • Rail King, Yard Engine...........

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I have the 50 Atlas Boxcar in that Scheme, Nice colors

My B&M train.

Spence,

You have that, "B & M Feeling!" Definitely one of the best Livery colors. 

Very nice video spence

Who has built the B&M rib-sided, plug-door, dreadnought-end 50' box cars?

 

Andrew

The B&M running on my layout.

Bagelman:

 

I just received an order from Trainland and the flyer they placed in the box indicates they have the Williams B&M F3's in the Bluebird paint scheme with the new Bachmann engine sounds.  The pair of AA units is priced at $299.99 and the B unit (without sound) at $119.99.

 

Curt

I'm from the Portland area originally and have nice memories of B&M blue and Maine Central gold. Here's a few items from my little collection.

 

The F3 is a Williams cab on an old Lionel chassis, the caboose is from Weaver, and the GP9 is the one Santa brought me when I was five. It rides on an LTI chassis with a better motor/reverse unit than it originally had. The crane, gondola, and RDC are from MTH.

 

I'm kind of surprised MTH hasn't re-released these Budd cars, as B&M is known for having bought the largest fleet of any road. They were very common in metro Boston into the '80s.

I've been looking into picking up some B&M boxcars.  I'm from the Boston area, so I feel like I really should have them on my layout.  I do remember there use to be three old B&M boxcars on a siding I think by the old Boston/Charleston Navy Yard.  My dad would take me when I was younger to see the USS constitution, but I was equally interested in seeing those boxcars and following the rails sunk in the pavement for the cranes and I assume supply cars

Here's a few B&M I have.

Here i go!

 

AG:

I love that ball signal!

About 8-10 years ago I had to be at one of our plants east of Montreal.  I had read an article in TRAINS magazine about ball signals and learned the last one supposedly in existence was at Whitefield, NH.  Rather than fly into Montreal like any normal person would do, I flew instead into Manchester, NH and drove up through the White Mountains with a detour to Whitefield so I could see that ball signal.

Curt

That's the spirit!

In NH you can see this one in North Conway.

here is another one.

AG, I'd love to learn more about how you built the custom frame for your Lionel GP.

 

Ross, did you paint that Bicentennial? Looks great!

Nice looking car! Love the B&M.  Here is some of my equipment.

 

 

One of my favorite postwar engines made it a dummy since going to DCS.

Alan P, yes, I painted the Bicentennial. I don't remember whose paint I used, but the B&M decals were from Highball Graphics, the stripes leftover from a Microscale Amtrak kit. I picked that engine as I had a good picture of it I had taken in 1976.

 

 

There's lots of B&M stuff out there, largely thanks to MTH.  Here's some of my collection, enjoy.

Nice work! Do you take commissions?

http://www.laurellines.org/

All you B&M fans folks may be interested in the fundraiser by the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley RR Preservation Society. The grand prize is a B&M 3713 locomotive.

Don

 

I'LL BITE.

here's mine

Why are there so many diverse Boston & Maine diesel locomotives, but there are so few O Scale Boston and Maine freight cars?

 

Atlas, Lionel, and MTH have to produce more Boston and Maine freight cars such as Three-Bay Open-Top Hoppers, ACF Center Flow 3560 Cu Ft. 3-bay Covered Hoppers, Evans Products modern gondolas, modern single-door exterior-braced 50' box cars, and Evans Products rib-sided two-bay covered hoppers.

 

 

Andrew

I have a B&M Atlas Evans 53' double plug door box car #6501-2, I think it is brand new scale for $45