She was stored on a siding in Middleboro for a couple years along with some other equipment from the Cape Cod Railroad. Here's a photo of her while she was there...
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| Author: | daylight4449 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Boston and Maine 1455 |
While doing some research, I came across this photo of the 1455 at Danbury. http://www.flickr.com/photos/34639903@N03/4250740866/ Just to take a stroll down memory lane here, but when I was about 2 or 3, I remember seeing this steam train being moved on the other side of the Cape Cod Canal from the bike trail. We stayed at a campground near the Bourne Bridge, and this was while some major digging was going on along the trail. Man... It seems like it was so long ago! I'm more over surprised I can even remember that far back... |
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| Author: | Pat Fahey [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
HI Dylan She when to Hyannis , out of Wareham, Mass on Nov 14th , 1993 , here is the shot at the canal , Pat Attachment: B&M # 1455 to Hyannis.jpg # 2.jpg
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| Author: | MEC_557 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
Danbury is slowly doing a cosmetic restoration on it. Last fall they rebuilt the window frames and welded in fresh metal in the cab. I do know the tender is in rough shape and needs work too. |
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| Author: | daylight4449 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
So the 1455 came to the cape in November of 1993, and left the around 1998... I now know that i mustn't have seen it arriving... The time frames just don't add up... I wasn't born until two years after she arrived. What was the date she left? I must be missing something here... I guess this has turned into a bit of me trying to place a date on an old memory. DRM bought it in 1999... Where was she before the move took place? |
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| Author: | rjenkins [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
She was stored on a siding in Middleboro for a couple years along with some other equipment from the Cape Cod Railroad. Here's a photo of her while she was there...
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| Author: | Richard Glueck [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
I'm surprised nobody has pumped money into restoring her for operation. What's teh story there? |
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| Author: | omar [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
Everyone is playing Power Ball in hopes of getting enough $$$ to restore it. It was rode hard & put away wet. |
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| Author: | daylight4449 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
omar wrote: Everyone is playing Power Ball in hopes of getting enough $$$ to restore it. It was rode hard & put away wet. Can I wager that the cost would include a replacement boiler? Isn't the current one original to 1455? Edit: One further question, but when was 1455 moved off of Cape Cod? My searches really haven't turned up much... |
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| Author: | Pat Fahey [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
Hi All According to my slides , she left the Cape on March 18Th , 2000 , she came up to Framingham , Mass on the Cape train the night before . This shot was taken Sunday morning in Framingham, Mass at Nevins yard, I got their early that morning and got my shots . Because the Conrail police was not letting any rail fans close to her . I forget what freight she when westbound on to Worcester, Mass , that morning but she was turned over too the P&W at that point , March 19th, 2000 . Attachment: B&M # 1455 in Framingham, Mass.jpg
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| Author: | daylight4449 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
Pat Fahey wrote: Hi All According to my slides , she left the Cape on March 18Th , 2000 , she came up to Framingham , Mass on the Cape train the night before . This shot was taken Sunday morning in Framingham, Mass at Nevins yard, I got their early that morning and got my shots . Because the Conrail police was not letting any rail fans close to her . I forget what freight she when westbound on to Worcester, Mass , that morning but she was turned over too the P&W at that point , March 19th, 2000 . Attachment: B&M # 1455 in Framingham, Mass.jpg Thanks for the slide Pat. The dates add up now. I can't believe it was only 12 years ago that I saw my first real train (Thomas is good in all, but I had to grow up eventually). That means that my ride into South Station on the MBTA was a full two years after that! So between when I saw it to June 23, 2002 (the date of my first ride. I guess the fear of standing next to MBTA 1029 for the first time made it's mark, eh?)... I'll just call it at two years. And the fact 1455 came within what I consider my back yard, and on CSX for that matter... Times have changed so much! |
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| Author: | MEC_557 [ Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Boston and Maine 1455 |
Richard Glueck wrote: I'm surprised nobody has pumped money into restoring her for operation. What's teh story there? The museum where she currently resides has a yard only but no mainline trackage rights, so she has no place to run for now even if she was operable. I know DRM has been trying for years to secure mainline rights and last I know they were still working on it. |
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