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Despite management’s best efforts the inefficiencies of small town New England railroading were eating the B&M alive. Highway gate tenders, station agents, manual tower operators, fully-crewed trains and the support staff necessary for steam locomotives were expensive and far less productive than their counterparts in the—admittedly subsidized—air and highway industries. Although steam was in its waning days by 1951, F2 4260A doubleheads with an unidentified steam locomotive on a through freight at an unidentified location. Considering the year, odds are the location is on either the Connecticut River line or the Fitchburg main between Mechanicville and Rotterdam Jct. NY. (Don Ball Collection)

Photograph from Boston & Maine In Color Volume 2.

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