Looks like a freshly painted F3 that just came off the turntable.

A broadside view of a BAR SW9.

Bangor and Aroostook, BAR GP38 82-Conrail SD45 6156 -GP38-2 8027, with train ABPB-1 on the ex-Reading line at CP Burn, Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 22, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

BAR's F3(A) 49 and BL2 50 rests at the roads Northern Maine Junction yard at Hermon, Maine on March 03, 1980.

A Pair of BAR EMD GP7s led by the 64 rests at the roads yard at Northern Maine junction on a nice fall day in October 1982

A hostler moves a leased Bangor and Aroostook GP7 and a CPR FP7A into the roundhouse at CPR's St. Luc Yard. The turntable still is used and eight of the thirty-seven stalls are intact. A number ... (more)

Keeping with the Penn Central tradition of leasing Bangor & Aroostook power after potato season was done, Conrail utilized a BAR GP9 on May 27, 1978 in Haworth NJ to pull a ballast train both nort... (more)

Back in the Eighties, In More Ways Than One… A number of Bangor & Aroostook GP38s have gathered in the BAR's small yard in Hermon, adjacent to one of the railroad’s namesakes: Bango... (more)

A fan trip behind Bangor & Aroostook BL-2 557, built in April 1949, crosses a bridge in Caribou, Maine, on June 1, 1980, to show off the diesel's new paint job. John W. Held photograph,... (more)

#502 was in storage at what was then MMA's shops in Derby. It was actually front coupled to other units, but permission to visit yielded the shop forces uncoupling it for photos. That was the ea... (more)

My one visit to Bangor and Aroostook, and the weather is grungy both days. Worse, the paper mills are on strike so BAR is almost completely shut-down. At least there are ancient Fs and BL2s at O... (more)

Bangor & Aroostook presented this nearly-original-condition EMD BL2, named the "American Railfan," to the Cole Land Transportation Museum in 1982. The only thing missing are the tractio... (more)

NX12 is seen approaching the HRRC shop on their way north to Pittsfield after picking up the train at Sand Road. 22 has finally returned to the north end for the past week, and I can finally say t... (more)

An interesting variety of locomotives, typical of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad in the 70s and 80s, was found at the railroad’s yard in Hermon, Maine. Several mid-60s-built 80-class GP38s are... (more)

On loan to Erie Lackawanna and then Conrail, a pair of Bangor & Aroostook GP7s, 75 and 68, lead a freight east out of Brier Hill yard in Youngstown, OH.