B&M CLASS R, S and T

CLASS R 4-8-2 TYPE

THE B&M's "MOUNTAIN" TYPE INCLUDED FIVE BUILT IN 1935, FIVE IN 1937,

THREE IN 1939 AND FIVE IN 1941.

R-1-b 4108 "Lily Pons" was built by Baldwin in 1937 and sold to the B&O in 1947.

"Lilly Pons" at East Deerfield February 26, 1938.

R-1-d 4113 "Black Arrow" was built by Baldwin in 1941 and scrapped 1956.

4113 on the first run of "The East Wind".

CLASS S 2-10-2 TYPE

THE B&M's "SANTA FE" TYPE INCLUDED TWENTY BUILT IN 1920 AND TEN BUILT IN 1923.

S-1-a 3001 was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works and was scrapped 1949.

It became S-1-c 2902. Shown at Westboro, N.H., November 1939.

S-1-a 3002 was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1920, became S-1-c 2909 and scrapped 1948.

Photographed at East Deerfield, Mass. February 26, 1938.

S-1-b 3023 was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1923 and was scrapped 1947.

S-1-a 3016 at the Mechanicville ash pit October 22, 1926.

2903 Eastbound at Zoar, Massachusetts on August 1, 1940

3015 at Brunswick, Maine in October 1936.

S-1-b 3020 was built by Schenectady in 1923 and sold to the Maine Central in 1944 renumbered 655.

S-1-b 3028 was built by Schenectady in 1923 and scrapped in 1940. Shown with pumps on smokebox.


3025 at East Deerfield July 16, 1939

S-1-a 3013 was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1920, became S-1-c 2901 and was scrapped 1948.

Photographed at North Berwick, Maine January in1925

S-1-a 3018 was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1920, became S-1-c 2906 and was scrapped 1947.

Photographed at East Somerville, Mass. August 1932.

S-1-a 3004 was built by Schenectady in 1920 and scrapped in 1946. Photo by Robert F. Collins.

CLASS T 2-8-4 TYPE

THE B&M PURCHASED TWENTY "BERKSHIRES" IN 1928 and FIVE IN 1929.

T-1-b 4020 was built by Lima in 1929 and scrapped 1947.

T-1-a 4010 was built by Lima in 1928 and sold to the Southern Pacific in 1945. Photographed at Lawrence, Mass. October 1937



4021 by A. O. Wilkins



3013 leads another 2-8-4 and a 2-10-2



4007 with New Haven I-4 Pacific 1381 at Springfield May 29, 1940 by Donald T. Hayward, Sr.



T-1-a at East Deerfield. Number 4004 was sold in 1947.






Copy of painting by Howard Fogg.