B&M by Al Hale - 8MM (silent) Film Transfer

Steam films of the late Al Hale. It's not the greatest copy but it's all I had to work with. Back in the day we used to sit shoulder to shoulder with Al at the B&M RR Historical Society meetings. At the end of the film he has the Flying Yankee.
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[@pumpkinhead4449]

The locomotive at 6:55 still survives at the Danbury Railway Museum in Connecticut. I volunteer there, and just on a hunch decided to check online to see if there were any videos of her class in steam. I seem to have lucked out and found our exact locomotive as well. Thanks for posting.

[@quasimoto7662]

If anyone is looking for 3713 here, you’ve got plenty of P4 Pacifics past the 9 minute mark or so. I believe 3713 appears right at the 14:30 mark, and you can clearly see the number at 14:42. It definitively appears at 15:00 as well.

[@Firstclass91]

Thank you for posting!!!! What a sight it must have been to have been around during the Steam era, these Boston&Maine Steam engines were such Grand pieces of iron, rivets and welded steel.

[@mwand89]

I saw Steamtown's surviving B&M 4-6-2 Pacific #3713 in the last scene when they show all of B&M's 4-6-2 Pacifics.

[@NellsStuff]

oh MAN good stuff! Lexington MA!!! And 13:26 Tyngsboro maybe? 16:22 Sacred Cow!

[@robertwalton7307]

At 5:40 Pierces Bridge Lexington,MA That was a double track till the 30's.Wood bridge until mid nineties.The sidewalls are still there.Now the Minute Man bike path.Great film.Thanks