Most people, including me, don’t think of Canadian Pacific as a NE railroad, but CP operated on 234 miles of track under MEC rights between Mattawamkeag and Vanceboro, ME. It was part of the primary line between Montreal, Quebec and St John, New Brunswick. CP ALCO FA1 no. 4001 and FB1 no. 4403 are pictured at an unknown location.
Mel, thanks for the history lesson as well as the photos/videos of your fine layout!
John
Melgar,
I always look forward to your posts and missed you while you were gone.
Here are a couple pictures of NEW HAVEN items.
Wow Bill. 3 NH I5 Hudson’s. Boy I miss Weaver. They built both the I4 Pacific, I5 Hudson and also developed the Pullman Bradley cars. I can’t remember the year. My I5 graced the cover of CTT magazine. MTH in it’s heyday. Catalogued the I5 and I believe it was on the cover. I really wanted a diecast version. Got cancelled for lack of orders. I believe 3rd Rail listed the Comet at one time that was never built.
Mel, I own a DVD you'd like, "Whistler's Western - The Boston & Albany RR", from A&R Productions (www.classicrailroadvideos.com). It has scenes of B&A steam, NYC, PC and Conrail diesels and historical info. Maybe your 606 is on it; my B&A 4-6-6T 403 is shown. I think owning a model is more fun after you've seen a photo or video of the prototype. FYI.
John
@Steam Crazy posted:Mel, I own a DVD you'd like, "Whistler's Western - The Boston & Albany RR", from A&R Productions (www.classicrailroadvideos.com). It has scenes of B&A steam, NYC, PC and Conrail diesels and historical info. Maybe your 606 is on it; my B&A 4-6-6T 403 is shown. I think owning a model is more fun after you've seen a photo or video of the prototype. FYI.
John
John,
Thanks.
I enjoy a model more when I can compare it to pictures of the prototype and read about it. I will check out the video.
There seem to be fewer books and photographs of the Boston & Albany Railroad than the Boston & Maine and New Haven. The Boston & Albany should have its own historical society but I think that most of its information comes under the New York Central System Historical Society, whose publications have pictures and data. In my opinion, the best books on the B&A are "Boston and Albany - The New York Central in New England - Volumes 1 and 2" by Robert Willoughby Jones and Pine Tree Press - 1997. Another one is "Boston & Albany Steam Power" by Richard L. Stoving and Edward L. May from The Railroad Press - softcover 2010. The tracks of the B&A Grand Junction Branch passed through my college campus, and so began my interest...
MELGAR
Mel, I agree, there's much less B&A stuff out there. I bought my DVD at the NYCSHS convention when it was in Worcester, so you're right about them being the source of most B&A material.
My interest in B&A developed because I lived near the B&A line in North Grafton, MA, where it connected with the short line Grafton & Upton. Steam was gone, alas, by the time I could get out on my own, but I saw lots of first gen NYC diesel power.
John
@Dave_C posted:Mel, nice videos. I noticed your grade crossing sign in the second video. The B&A had similar signs. I made some using a copying machine at work. Can’t remember off hand which book I found it in. I think they came out close to scale just copying the image. Made the post from basswood and just cut and pasted the paper print on to it and just painted up to the edges. The sign came sort of pre weathered right out of the copier.
Dave,
Your railroad crossing scene and sign are so realistic! Looks like a place in Worcester…
My sign was made from a small kit by Banta Modelworks but I chose not to use the supplied lettering. Instead, I made a text document with the lettering, saved it as a photograph, had it printed on photographic paper, and then glued the pieces to the painted crossbuck. My favorite scene on my model railroad.
MELGAR
Johan, great scene! I don't know if you have any CP trains, but now you know it fits your ME theme. Telling you just in case you need an excuse to buy more trains!
John
Great photos and history.
More NH.
@Steam Crazy posted:Johan, great scene! I don't know if you have any CP trains, but now you know it fits your ME theme. Telling you just in case you need an excuse to buy more trains!
John
John,
Thanks. Yes, I have plans to get the some CP trains for my home layout soon as I can build more modules first. I guess no matter how hard I try, there are always new temptations that just cant be resisted. 
Johan
Great post Mel. I recently picked up the B&M Ten Wheeler I order but have yet to pick up the older style passenger cars Lionel ran with the Strasburg ones(former MTH tooling). I'm slowly branching out my railroads from the PRR & NYC. I have Mr.Muffins custom Berkshire on order for the B&A, and I have the Lionel New Haven Mohawk waiting for me as well. I just need to grab a New Haven caboose somewhere when I pop to the train store at some point in time.
My 1397 B&M Mogul headed through the elevated bridge and a few pics of NE railroads.
I also have the Lionel Legacy Maine Central 2-8-0 on order - supposed to be here in July.
My K-Line Jet:
One of two (or maybe three) Baldwin Model Locomotive Works EP-3s that I have:
I also have (but not photographed yet) seven NH passenger cars; three K-Line, a Walthers, two unknown, and one scratch or kit built.
Couple of quick pics from my not very scenic railroad. Many of you guys put me to shame but I’ll post more engines.
the Jet is an MTH PS3 that I recently found on EBAY. Mint and a bargain price
the Mountain is the new Lionel “Mohawk”. Cost an arm and a leg
Sorry everyone I didn’t mean to post 3 videos. I have to get better at this
BEER TRAIN
NH 0-6-0 no. 2334 has picked up a string of Narragansett Beer reefers from the brewery in Providence, RI. The reefers will be delivered to the Providence classification yard, where they will will be cut into a freight destined for Worcester, MA. The distributor will deliver them to thirsty Central MA residents.
No. 2334 is an Atlas model converted to MTH PS3.
John
Resuscitated a Lionel 400 (B&O, of course). Converted it into a B&M, which had one of the largest fleets of the Budd-built RDC's...
Fresh coat of paint, body and chassis. Re-awakened the horn. Thoroughly cleaned the drive train. E-unit worked perfectly.
Modified the interior a bit. Partitioned off the cab ends and the engineer's compartment. Added an engineer at both ends. Kept the 3-bulb lighting and silhouette window treatment. Those end decals were custom made for me by Bedlam Creations...
Turned out pretty well, methinks.
Fun project.
KD
KD, your project definitely “turned out pretty well”! I think B&M had more RDC’s than any other RR, maybe a B&M historian out there can confirm that.
John
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