To compliment the view of North Station from the North, here is something for transit fans from the south:
Thanks for the views Dave. And to update your information that B&M F3AB it’s actually a very rare F2AB delivered in 1946. All those diesels looked alike back then, right?
B&M’s F2ABs were delivered with drawbars like FTs, but quickly got couplers.
The excursion on the south wye appears to be on the CV connector track, since removed. Some of the buildings in view on the right are still standing along South Main Street in White River Jct.
I should have checked the numbers on the front of the F2-A. The side view isn’t clear enough in the photo, although there were differences.
If I remember correctly, the F2 still had only 1350HP per unit but did away with al the belt-drives for accessories and used auxiliary motors instead, like the F3.
Or was it the reverse? 1500HP while keeping the belt-drives?
F2 was 1350 HP. The main generator was the same as for an FT, hence the rating. The F3 in the same carbody introduced the later generator.
Here is the ex-DL&W Pacific after cut off from the fan-trip train:
About a year-and-half before the fan-trip. late Augusdt or early September, I arrived with other Camp Ironwood (Harrison, Maine) campers, returning homeward, on B&M train from Portlsand. We rode in B&M “American Flyer” Pellman lightweight coaches. (In the train to New York, standarrd six-wheel truck parlor with an I-5 of front to New Haven on the Yankee Clipper.) I took pictures of other campers detraining, thenb a steam-hasuled arrival on an adjascent trasck.
Are those photos in Boston North Station?
Yes.
I presume you had to transit to South Station. How would you have gotten there?
This was a transfer I made with canp groups many times both ways: NB 1945. NB & SB 1947, SB 1948, NB & SB 1949.
Most of the time these transfers were via Washington Street (now Orange Line) and Cambridge - Dorchester (now Red Line) trains, with transfer at Summer-Winter-Washington Street (now Downtown Crossing). On one or two occasions, taxis were used. Always South Statiion, not Back Bay.
1938 -1944 Concord Sleeper on the State-of-Maine
SB 1945: Via Clairmont Junction, not Boston
NB 1948 State-of Maine Sleeper to Portland
1946: Camp Locanda (Lokanda?) Catskills, Erie Ferry - Port Jervis (Stilwells!)
1950, Camp With-a-Wind, Honesdale. PA. DLK&W NY Ferry - Scranton, D&H Scranton - Carbondale. (18-year-old Photo Counselor)
!951: ROTC Summer Camp, Fort Monmouth, PRR and C&NJ - NY&LB.
!952: Summer employment at EMD, PRR - CB&Q
What RR did the State-of-Maine run on? What were the routes of the above 3 trains?
I googled “Concord New Hampshire railroad station” and the first thing to come up was
There were many pictures of the station. It must have been something!
PS - if you connect from above click on ‘railroad stations’ then ‘browse by state.’
G
Rather than answer the question, i’ll point out that any train passenger traveling directly between New York City and any point in Maine absolutely had to ride on two specifuic railroads. Beyond Portland Maine to Bangor a third railroad affiliated with the second for much of its history, was involved with a through sleeper, and at times through coaches. Now please look at any railroad map of the area say 1918 - 1965.
I know there are routes that bypass Boston, but I don’t know which ones had passenger trains.
THe STaye of Maine used the Shore Line (NEC) to Providence, then what is now rge Peovidence and Worcester, where the two railroads inyercanged passengers anf freight. It then used the current freight route through Ayer and Lowell to Lowell Junction, south of Andover, on the main line to Portland. The Concord sleeper was dropped either at Ayer or Lowell and attached to Bostton - Concord train.