Bluebirds & Minutemen Boston & Maine 1974-1984 by Tom Nelligan With dust jacket

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Hardcover with dust jacket

151 pages

THE BOSTON & MAINE Is a New England classic, a railroad that has become a legend in its own time. The carrier will be remembered for many things-a huge fleet of Budd Rail Diesel Cars (the world's largest). the

4.7-mile Hoosac Tunnel, covered railroad bridges, stocky steam locomotives, blue diesels, busy mainline arteries from Boston to

Maine and New York State. and branches that poked and prodded the sleepy folds of Massachusetts.

Vermont and New Hampshire.

But perhaps most of all well remember B&M's tenacity-another

New England trait-which kept the railroad alive for more years than some would have expected. This fierce independence kept B&M out of

Conrail despite bankruptcy. and under the guidance of B&M

President and Chief Executive

Officer Alan Dustin. B&M once again became a railroad that worked.

Dustin and his management team led the B&M into a new era, one of upgraded trackage. new locomotives, route expansion and progressive marketing.

BLUEBIRDS & MINUTEMEN documents this new life of B&M. beginning with

Dustin's appointment to president in

1974 to the purchase of B&M by

Timothy Mellon in 1983-and with a short overview of B&M operations through 1984 as part of Mellon's

Guilford Transportation Industries.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 3

1. Spokes from The Hub/The Boston District. 8

2. The Maine connection/The East End27

3. Milltown main lines/The Gardner District. 46

4. Bucking the Berkshires/The West End. 69

5. Valley blues/The Connecticut River Line91

6.138M amplified/expansion lines122

7. Bluebirds turn gray/Guilford Transportation. 138

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