This mainline way freight is running fast to get out of the way of varnish and symbol freights I like Sid's term, well worn dignity, so much I have applied it to this Alco..

Alco and EMDs team up on a manifest freight headed for White River Junction.

Run thru B&M power seemed to be common on NE-84 in the summer of 1978. 314 gets ready to depart Oneonta for Mechanicville an a July morning.

Run thru B&M power leads NE-84 up Richmondville Hill at the Route 7 overpass.

An Eastbound Guilford freight wraps around the big curve at Saunders Road with a pair of B&M and D&H engines.

With the worst grades behind them, the crew will relax a bit as their train runs through the small North Adams Tunnel.

A Guilford lashup heads to the shop tracks after dropping its Eastbound train in the yard. Early Guilford provided some colorful consists.

3 B&M units are in charge of D&H train NE-84 as it passes the Cobleskill Coal Company building. Note the D&H Coal sign. This train often had run thru B&M power between Oneonta & Mechanicville.

B&M transfer cut from the Central Vermont on the main thoroughfare beside the station. Black Alco Switchers were every where on the old B&M. This is a real grab shot. My dad stopped the car long e... (more)

Well-cared for by display engine standards, B&M 410 stands as a silent memorial to Lowell's industrial past, on trackage she likely knew decades ago when both Lowell and the Boston & Maine were in... (more)

Boston & Maine passenger-baggage RDC No 6211 rushes eastbound through Bedford Depot toward North Station in Boston, on an evening express run. Actually, it's 2009 and the B&M hasn't used an RD... (more)

Despite the best efforts of Timothy Mellon (and even latter B&M management) the Minuteman lives on in 2009.