Railfan for Life
Enjoy a rich journey across the American railroading landscape through the lens of our founder Hal Carstens!
In 1929 and 1930, the Boston and
In this new book from Carstens, you’ll enjoy more than 100 pages of color photos selected by our editors spanning Hal’s trackside adventures from the last sixty years. From coast to coast, from steam to diesel (and trolleys, too), from main lines to short lines and everything in between!
Maine Railroad purchased 1,975 box- cars of the 4C-XM-1 design from the Standard Steel Car Company of Butler, Pennsylvania. The first 975 B&M cars were built to the ARA design and had flat lap seam roofs with internal car- lines, riveted plate ends and metal- sheathed wood doors with three in- dented sections. These doors were possibly unique to these B&M cars and were not “reverse-Creco” doors as sometimes stated. Of these cars, 954 were assigned numbers B&M 71000- 71953 and 21 cars were assigned MTC reporting marks, MTC 71975-71995, for B&M’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Mystic Terminal Company. The 25 cars in the intermediate series B&M 71954- 71974 and MTC 71996-71999 were all- steel cars, not single-sheathed cars. The second 1,000 B&M cars built to
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the ARA single-sheathed design, B&M 72000-72999, also had riveted plate ends and metal-sheathed wood doors but had Murphy solid steel ribbed roofs with external carlines. All cars were delivered with K brakes, Ajax power handbrakes and ARA type Y trucks. The metal-sheathed wood doors were later replaced by Youngstown corrugat- ed doors. After 1947, the cars were up- graded with AB brakes when the K brake was banned from interchange by the ICC. The cars were painted freight car red overall with black trucks and white let-
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of the B&M boxcar roster from 1930 until 1942 when an order of all-steel cars arrived. The cars served for many years with the following numbers in revenue service by month and year: June 1932 (1,975), April 1951 (1,917), July 1960 (1,270), February 1965 (526), July 1965 (192) and January 1972 (0). After 1953, B&M sold some of these
cars to the Wellsville, Addison & Gale- ton Railroad (WAG) where they served until the demise of that line in 1979. In late 1954, B&M began renumbering the remaining cars into series 69700- 70987. Several color photos of B&M XM-1 boxcars are published in the book, Northern New England Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equip- ment, published by Morning Sun books. This resin kit from Funaro & Camer- lengo consists of a one-piece body cast-
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