Boston & Maine Steam Heavy Haulers and Crack Limiteds
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Mid-1930s action on the busiest lines of the B&M. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
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| Producer | Sunday River Productions |
|---|---|
| Narration | Yes |
| Run Time | 32 minutes |
| Technical Details | Region Code 1, USA and Canada |
Travel back to the mid-1930s to see action on the busiest divisions of the Boston & Maine. Steam locomotives work The Portland, New Hampshire and Fitchburg Divisions and the Connecticut Valley Line in both summer and winter. Huge hulking Berkshires battle the Ashburnham grade. High stepping passenger varnish: “The Flying Yankee”, “The Alouette” and “The Red Wing” go screaming by, as do similar name trains with brass railed observation cars. The third streamlined train built in the world: “The Flying Yankee” flashes by at lightning speed.
Other unusual features include the Union Pacific’s streamlined M-10001 “City of Salina” on tour and the Rexall Special with its streamlined New York Central Hudson and even Republican Alf Landon campaigning for President in 1936 against Franklin D. Roosevelt!
rickyfreni –
In this installment of the New England Steam series, which was originally released in 1990, there are films of these engines from the films of Mr. L. Peter Cornwall, with John Tolley & Charlie Brown (Not the Peanuts Character). The Sounds were recorded by Preston Johnson.
One 0-6-0 number 425 is referenced to a Gulf Mobile & Northern 4-6-2 on the Reading & Northern in Pennsylvania as well as a reference to a Rio Grande 2-8-0 which was later renumbered to 315.
The clips of Union Pacific M10001 at Boston’s South Station in 1934 were later used in Burlington Zephyrs-Everywhere West from 1994.
There are comparisons of the Flying Yankee: A Steam powered passenger train, & a diesel powered streamliner which at one time was once on display at Edaville Park in South Carver, & nowadays, it resides at the Hobo Railroad in Lincoln New Hampshire. Aside from the trackside scenes, there is onboard footage from the rear of the train leaving North Station.
Some locations include Wedgemere, Saugus Massachusetts (where the branch through that town is now part of a Bicycle path), North Station (these films were shot way before the debut of the MBTA Commuter Rail & Amtrak’s Downeaster), South Station, Portland Maine, St. Johnsbury Vermont with the late presidential candidate Alfred M. Landon, Greenfield with Canadian Pacific 2597, somewhere on the NH division with the New York Central’s Streamlined Commodore Vanderbilt, & the Fitchburg line which one B&M Berkshire has the same number as the operating Union Pacific Big Boy in present days: 4014.