Re: Trains in the steam era
- From: "cripete" <pjboylanboylan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 23:39:05 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Duane Goodman & Charlotte Grantham"
<duano40@h...> wrote:
The Gull was actually a B&M train between Boston and Portsmouth.
There were
four Boston-Montreal trains. The day trains were the north and
southbound Alouette, numbers 211/212. The night trains were 209/210,
the Red Wing. They alternated power with the B&M. The trains used B&M
numbers south of Wells River, Vermont. Hope this helps.
Duane Goodman
With respect to the GULL, that is mot the full story. In the
fifties,ante death of Me Cent. passenger service it carried
sleepers from Boston via B&M. It ran on Maine Central from Portland,
Me. via Lewiston carrying a daily Bangor & Aroostook 6-4-6 sleeper to
Van Buren, Me.
It carried a M-W-F 6-4-6 to St.John, N.B. On the days that was not
running, the Me.Central ran 10-1-2 as far as Calais, Maine on the
Canadian border. The Gull also carried a Boston-Bangor pullman 10-1-2
regularly.
So it did not terminate on B&M in Portsmouth, but was handed over
to Maine Central on the Portland Terminal Rlwys. tracks at Union
Station. The Me.Central bought the 700 series Hudsons for this trains
Summer season loadings in the 1930s. In Summers it also carried
other pullmans for Bar Harbor(and elsewhere) as well as more coaches,
and first class cars.
Since it served New Brunswick it qualifies as a Canadian train,
albeit one having nothing to do with Montreal.
Good-Luck, Peter
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