Remembering Boston & Maine Railroad freight trains

Mountain-type steam power

An unidentified Boston & Maine Railroad 4-8-2 Mountain-type locomotive pulls westbound freight train PM-3 through Ayer, Mass., in the early 1940s.
Wayne Brumbaugh

Mogul led freight train

Boston & Maine Railroad 2-6-0 Mogul-type locomotive No. 1455 heads a short freight on the Hillsboro, N.H., branch at Elmwood in 1949.
R.E. Tobey

FT freight run in New York State

Boston & Maine Railroad EMD FT locomotive No. 4222 passes JV Tower at Johnsonville, N.Y., with a westbound freight for Mechanicville, N.Y., in 1953.
Jim Shaughnessy

Freight motors on duty

Boston & Maine Railroad electric freight motors Nos. 5002 and 5003 have tied onto a 2-8-4 Berkshire-type locomotive to drag it and its westbound train over the Hoosac Tunnel electric district in Massachusetts in 1940.
J.P. Ahrens

"Mass" freight train

Boston & Maine Railroad 2-8-0 Consolidation-type No. 2404 curves around the wye at Lowell Junction, Mass., with a local freight from Lawrence, Mass.
Donald G. Hills

Dash 2 power

Boston & Maine Railroad EMD GP40-2 general purpose-type locomotive No. 308 and two sister locomotives head East Deerfield (Mass.) to Mechanicville, N.Y., freight EDME west near Charlemont, Mass., in 1980.
Jack Armstrong

Heavy steam freight

Boston & Maine Railroad 2-8-0 Consolidation-type locomotive No. 2662 departs St. Johnsbury, Vt., with a Newport, Vermont, to White River Junction, Vermont, freight train in 1946. At right are two Maine Central 2-8-2 Mikado-type locomotives, just in from Portland, Maine.
Philip R. Hastings

Merrimac River freight train

Boston & Maine Railroad 2-6-0 Mogul-type locomotive No. 1464 rolls south along the Merrimac River with a short freight at Tyngsboro, Mass.
Leo Litwin

Vintage diesels meet

Boston & Maine Railroad’s first EMD FT locomotive, No. 4200, on an eastbound freight meets the road’s first EMD GP9 general purpose type locomotive, No. 1700, at Mechanicville, N.Y., in 1957.
Jim Shaughnessy

Beautiful B&M caboose shot!

Boston & Maine Railroad freight train JS-2 from — White River Junction, Vermont, and bound for Springfield, Vermont — is on Central Vermont tracks beside the Connecticut River 3 miles south of Brattleboro, Vt., in 1978.
Jim Shaughnessy

All this month — October 2019 — Classic Trains editors are celebrating the heritage, history, and images of the Boston & Maine Railroad.

Please enjoy this photo gallery of images from the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include B&M steam-powered freight trains through time.

You might also enjoy this B&M history article from Classic Trains, a photo gallery of Boston & Maine passenger trains, or a photo gallery of locomotives!

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