Thought this might be an interesting thread to share with the passenger
operations types on this list!
Lots of fascinating stuff on consists takes place on the passconsist list...

Jim Duncan

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From: passconsist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:passconsist@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of O Fenton Wells
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:25 AM
To: passconsist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [passconsist] B&M M&E extras - Christmas 1950

Thanks for sharing John. Really neat consists from my era. I love the
fact that each of the trains had a foreign car of "southern" heritage. I
would bet most modelers wouldn't put together a consist such as the real
thing, and I know at least I would never think to add a wood body caboose
just behind the locomotives.
Any idea why the southern foreign road cars were there? And why the
caboose went first, crew purposes?
I'm constantly learning new stuff!
Thanks,
Fenton Wells
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, jshorvath10583
<jshorvath10583@...>wrote:

> **
>
>
> The B&M was not known for its M&E trains but 60+ years ago when postal
> mail was pretty much the only way to send things for the holidays it meant
> that the railroads had to use pretty much anything with wheels to
transport
> drastically increased mail plus express shipments. With the recent
> publication of the Rice conductor log books (see my earlier post) some
very
> interesting passenger-extra M&E consists on the B&M's Connecticut River
> line between Springfield, MA and White River Junction, VT have come to
> light. I'm posting a few of the more interesting ones below together with
> my explanation of the equipment that appeared. Very interesting (to me)
> combinations of freight and passenger cars appeared. And note that the
> caboose used as a rider car for the train crew was placed on the headpin,
> presumably to facilitate setouts and pickups of some of these cars at
> intermediate stations such as Greenfield, MA and Bellows Falls, VT.
>
> Comments and corrections welcome.
>
> John S. Horvath
>
> ======================================================================
> 11 December 1950
> Passenger Extra - Springfield to WRJ (operated as 2nd 79)
> -
> B&M #4226A+B - EMD F2A+B (passenger units, steam generator in B-unit only)
> B&M #104022 - wood-body, SUF caboose
> L&N #90591 (storage mail) - 40' steel boxcar
> NYC #169909 (storage mail) - 40' steel boxcar
> B&M #71500 (storage mail) - 40' single-sheathed box car
> B&M #72345 (storage mail) - 40' single-sheathed box car
> PRR #9090 (storage mail) - 60' steel baggage-express, Class B60b
> ======================================================================
> 18 December 1950
> Passenger Extra - WRJ to Springfield (operated as Advance 728)
> -
> B&M #3804 - EMD E7A
> B&M #104022 - wood-body, SUF caboose
> B&M #2877 (storage mail) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-express
> PRR #6038 (storage mail) - 70' steel baggage-express, Class B70
> B&M #2825 (storage mail) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-express
> NYC #8104 (storage mail) - 60' steel baggage-express
> B&M #2859 (express) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-express
> B&M #2374 (storage mail) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-mail (15' mail apt,
> double doors in baggage compartment)
> PRR #55246 (storage mail) - 40' steel boxcar, Class X29 (passenger-service
> equipped)
> REX #1786 (storage mail) - 50' wood-body, SUF express reefer (GACC design)
> PRR #91585 (express) - 40' steel boxcar, Class X29
> L&A #16267 (storage mail) - 50' steel boxcar
> ======================================================================21
> December 1950
> Passenger Extra - Springfield to WRJ (operated as 2nd 79)
> -
> B&M #3813 - EMD E7A
> B&M #104022 - wood-body, SUF caboose
> NYC #9324 (storage mail) - 50' steel express boxcar (ex-troop sleeper,
> exterior sliding doors)
> BAR #61193 (storage mail) - 40' single-sheathed boxcar
> SLSF #150093 (storage mail) - 40' single-sheathed(?) boxcar
> PRR #2612 (storage mail) - 50' steel express reefer, Class R50b
> NH #3835 (storage mail) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-express
> B&M #2893 (storage mail) - 60' wood-body, SUF baggage-express
> PRR #6296 (storage mail) - 60' steel baggage-express, Class B60
> B&M #3203 (storage mail) - 60' steel baggage-express
> NYC #7911 (storage mail) - 60' steel baggage-express
>
>
>



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