One daily 5 PM amusement as a small child was going to pick up Dad off the B&M commuter train at Wayland MA. In those days the cars were all 60 foot wood, open platform, truss rod coaches. Power was always steam. Either a Mogul or a small Pacific. So I decided to model that train. The proper model for the 60 foot coaches was/is the Ambroid all wood craftsman kit. I actually have one of those, all built up and running, and three more in boxes waiting for me to gather the energy to build them. In the mean time I encountered the Model Power and Rivarossi 48 foot old timer coaches. They are 12 scale feet too short, but otherwise not bad. I had to repaint them and decal them for the B&M and add some weight, and covert to Kadee couplers, but all that is pretty easy. Proper color (B&M passenger maroon) is always a subject of discussion. I have photographs of B&M passenger equipment going from red as a fire engine to brown as a box car. And side trips to purple as a wine grape. I like the red as a fire engine look. I painted up a couple of cars and took then down to the club. In those days North Shore Model Railroad club had a few members who were B&M trainmen for their day job, and a couple of other very knowledgeable members. I showed my bright red cars around, and there was some hemming and hawing, but the grouple opinion was “A little too bright, but not bad”. Anyhow these two cars are painted rattle can bright red with a DullCote top coat which dulls the red nicely and blends in the decals.
The locomotive is an IHC Mogul. This is a photo from 2009. The coaches have duck bill roof ends rather than the bread board ends I remember from long ago. Over the years since 2009 I have acquired a few more 48 foot cars and so I got the locom
