The Boston & Maine's road slug set -- GP40-2s 300 and 301 with homemade slug 100 -- departs the East Deerfield yard for Mechanicville, NY, on the point of a westbound freight.

Boston & Maine road slug 100 and parent GP40-2 300 team up with a pair of GP38-2s on train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME) at Lowell, MA. The home made slug was built at the B&M's Billeri... (more)

Binghamton was a hub of activity in the early days of stacktrains. NYS&W would bring them west from NJ and the D&H [Guilford] would run them west over the former EL mainline to Buffalo.

The power has cut off and will head for engine servicing under the famous 'railfan bridge' over the East Deerfield yard lead.