Vintage track vehicles

A few pictures I took at a narrow gauge railroad museum in Boothbay Maine.

 

Manchester Locomotive Works builder's photo of Fitchburg Railroad 4-4-0 28 in May 1899. She became B&M 962 with the takeover of the Fitchburg in 1900, renumbered 940 in 1911, and finally scrapped in December 1927.

 

Thank you. Interesting that it was scrapped in '27; a lot of railroads repurposed older mainline locos as branch engines, helpers, even a few were given new frames to incorporate six or eight smaller drivers to be used as switch engines. But who knows, maybe they were flush enough to buy engines rather than rebuilding them.

 

It still exists but needs a little TLC.

 

Yes it does, but just the fact that it still exists is great to see.

 

wow!!! that happeed more than folks relized

 

There's a photo in one of my RR books, of a steam loco pulling a string of cars in flooded Portland, OR. You'll never see a diesel-electric doing that; the original DC-DC locos had to disengage the traction motor circuits when going over road crossings, because they'd suffer motor 'flashover,' essentially a short circuit. So water is definitely "No bueno."

 

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