Boston and Maine Railroad - 1930s
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- This video is a compilation of several 8mm films that were assembled together to show some passenger train operations of the Boston & Maine RR in the 1930s. The first train featured in a few shots is the famous "Flying Yankee" which is currently under restoration in New Hampshire and is expected to return to service soon. Later scenes in the video show steam trains of the B&M RR pulling wooden pasenger cars. The scenes were shot near Ipswich, Beverly and Salem, Mass.
For more information about the "Flying Yankee" and the restoration of the train please visit www.flyingyanke...
This footage is absolutely golden ⭐️
Remarkable quality given the age of the 8mm films.
I love that song!
I loved the steam engine attached backwards; I bet the engineer was relying on the fireman to watch the track! The Flying Yankee is still slowly being restored. I believe they plan to remove the Winton engine as it would be too expensive to maintain (hopefully replace with a newer EMD unit). As a streamline diesel-electric, stainless-steel DMU from the 30s, the Flying Yankee was state of the art and is equal to any deisel passenger train currently running in the US except Accela.
I would love to see the old flame thrower machine they used in Lawrence MA to melt the snow off the switches years ago was an awesome thing to watch
What they use on the Mattapan trolley line these days is a jet engine on wheels, pointing at the snow.
Yes that’s what they replaced that flame thrower with …but it wasn’t as cool to watch
The first film of the steam engine going over the railway bridge was taken on the Salem Side of the railway bridge, I recognized the swing span.
Love to see old videos.
Can't wait to see the Flying Yankee back in service!! I hope. :)
As you probably know the restoration of the Flying Yankee stalled out some time ago unfortunately. However......The Mark Twain Zephyr is being restored as we speak by the Great Wisconsin Northern (I think I got that right). They expect to have it operational by next fall.
@@alcopower5710 Was sitting behind the shop at Hobo Railroad in November, 2019.
@@alanbare8319Still is as of 2023
Great old footage!
Song is so Damn fitting
Very nice video, liked the focus on the Yankee Flyer, especially in Portland. I should post a pic on my website of this beautiful train.
Awesome!! Thank you for sharing
very cool Bob!
Looks almost like the Burlington zephyr.
The Yankee was first then they build the Zephyr
It sucks now. I live in Beverly and can’t just take the train straight to Maine from there
i cant believe my grandparents rode cross country in Russia that long ago and I nearly 100 years in the future can barely get anywhere with trains in aus/us so sad
I know that train
nice
😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩
Does anyone know of an exsisting video, of the B&M Budd cars going thru Methuen Mass, on there way to Rockingham Park in Salem NH.
0:55 Manual gates :D
0:55
Very nice video, thank you. What is the title and artist of the music accompaniment?
1:23 wheres that location. it looks familiar.
The clip of the Yank going over the bridge, is that Old Orchard or is that Portland?
The Salem Beverly Bridge over the Danvers River
BTW: Whatever happened to "The Yankee Flyer" restoration project that was begun about 10 years ago..?
Haven't heard or read anything about the project in recent years through the media or TRAINS Magazine..!
"The Yankee Flyer" was sitting behind the shops at the Hobo Railroad in November, 2019.
@@alanbare8319 Thanks for the follow-up, my Cousin in East Thetford Vermont sent me several newsletters late 1990's & early 2000 on restoration efforts, the last I heard was related to difficulty in restoring the engine to an operable condition. Doubt there are any working engines that can be used as a reference to duplicate parts, other than a virtual twin of the Flying Yankee that has been cosmetically restored in Illinois (Think it's currently on display either in Chicago or the Illinois RR Museum.)..
@@Howard1939 You are correct about the engine. I often wondered if a Detroit Diesel would work, as it was developed from the Winton Diesel Engine.