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B&M Memories Videos - Volume III

The Films of Don "Robby" Robinson

If there are any errors on these pages, please contact me (Ken Akerboom).

Branches

• Scenes 1 - 42 - Central Massachusetts
• Scenes 43 - 53 - Lexington
• Scenes 54 - Stoneham [added - KGA - not in original listing]
• Scenes 55 - 62 - Claremont
• Scene 63 - Saugus

Scene Index

NOTES:

• the original paper list had 2 items labelled "3" - I renumbered them "correctly".
• The "Branches" list has been edited to reflect this renumbering
• Original numbers 45 and 46 were reversed. The descriptions have been re-ordered to reflect the original numerical order.

1. Central Mass local freight westbound at Waltham Highlands (Prospect Hill St.).
2. Train 3111 at Waltham Highlands. This wigwag was the only one of its type on the B&M; at times the arm seemed to stand still and the pole wave!
3. CM local meets train 3109 at Weston. When the freight departed it had exactly 14 minutes to run to Waltham North and be in the clear for train 3111.
4. Train 3117 at Weston taken from under the highway overpass
5. Train 3117 at Weston
6. Train 3109 approaching the east end of the Clinton tunnel showing semaphore protecting tunnel, bridge and cut which goes to STOP as the train passes.
7. Train 3111 on Clinton trestle.
8. Train 3109 at Weston. Note steam crane on siding. Yes, it was operable and was being used in the construction of a power line along the track.
9. Train 3104 exiting Clinton tunnel.
10. Train 3106 at Clinton enginehouse
11. Train 3106 on Clinton trestle.
12. Train 3104 at Weston. Note Ford "woodie" station wagon.
13. CM local holds on Marlboro branch at Gleason Junction for train 3117 and heads east after it passes. The smoke in the distance was from a major forest fire.
14. Train 3100 passes Poor Farm Crossing between Gleasondale and Ordway in the dark of an early winter morning.
15. Train 3104 approaches the westernmost crossing in Hudson in a snowstorm.
16. Train 3106 leaving Hudson on the same morning.
17. Train 3106 starts out of yard at Clinton enginehouse; train disappears in steam from the cylinder cocks.
18. Train 3106 heads out on former WN&P main at Clinton enginehouse.
19. Train 3106 on curve east of Berlin in snow.
20. Train 3106 at the same location as #18 on another day.
21. Train 3104 at Wayland
22. Train 3109 crosses Lyman Pond between Clematis Brook and Waltham North.
23. Train 3104 leaving Wayland; smoke by prearrangement.
24. Train 3106 passing East Sudbury.
25. Train 3104 entering North Station at Boston.
26. Cab ride on train 3104 from Clinton to Ordway.
27. Train 3104 stops to line switches at East Switch and momentarily disappears in the steam as it restarts.
28. Train 3109 crosses Clinton trestle.
29. Engine 1455 backs out of Clinton enginehouse and is turned on the hand operated turntable.
30. Train 3104 at Clinton Union Station (also used by NYNH&H).
31. Train 3104 on Clinton trestle.
32. Train 3109 races through South Bolton as engineer waves.
33. Train 3104 takes the ups and downs through Wayside Inn on the long straightaway between South Sudbury and Ordway. Looking back from a westbound train one would see the South Sudbury station disappear and reappear five times.
34. Train 3106 passes the passenger shelter at Ordway.
35. Train 3104 stops to line the corssover at East Switch.
36. Train 3106 between Clinton tunnel and West Berlin. A house now stands on the old roadbed at this point.
37. Train 3104 passes Poor Farm near Ordway running late as only eastbound that day because there was only one set of equipment at Clinton. Train 3107 the previous day was the last one out of North Station - on any route - before the railroad was shut down by the blizzard of March 20, 1954.
38. Engineer Genepra oils around engine 1498 at Clinton enginehouse.
39. Train 3104 exits Clinton tunnel.
40. Train 3106 passes East Sudbury.
41. Train 3100 exits Clinton Tunnel and plows the snow left by an overnight storm. This sequence took a long time to get and is one of the photographer's favorites.
42. Train 3106 passing Mirror Lake.
43. The B&B (Bedford & Billerica) local passes Woburn St. (then Route 128) in Lexington. This was a one-way operation as the train returned to Boston on the New Hampshire Division main line through Wilmington. Note "Ike and Mike", the B&M's two Barber-Greene snow loaders on the rear headed for Billerica Shop.
44. B&B local passes Lexington depot.
45. B&B local stops at North Lexington to flag crossing.
46. B&B local departs Bedford. Trainman walked ahead to flag crossing so that train would not have to stop on hill. Count the autos that pass his flag.
47. B&B local - engine only - arrives at Concord on the Reformatory Branch to pick up an outgoing car.
48. B&B local in Bedford.
49. Train 3209 approaching Mass. Ave. in Arlington. That parked truck was very close but the train got by.
50. Order board clears and train 3211 "The Paul Revere" enters Arlington station.
51. Watchman swings up his STOP sign and train 3211 departs Arlington.
52. Train 3206 departs Lexington with a P-2 Pacific for power.
53. Train 3217 passes Revere St. crossing at North Lexington.
54. Train 3409 at Grape St. (Montvale) on the Stoneham Branch.
55. Train 3802 leaves Sunapee Depot and order board goes to STOP for manual block.
56. Train 3802 passes former location of Lake Sunapee station.
57. Train 3802 arrives at Newbury.
58. Train 3802 drops down the hill approaching Todd Pond on the north side of Bradford.
59. Train 3802 enters Contoocook station through the covered bridge as agent sweeps snow off the mail cart.
60. Train 3803 passes the old enginehouse at Claremont Junction.
61. Train 3808 with a gas-electric car departs Claremont Junction.
62. A head-end ride on the gas car of train 3808 from Claremont to Concord.
63. Ride in the cab of a P-2 on train 2109 from Malden to Saugus.

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