Boston and Maine Railroad

father-in-lawUh, uh, who, his voice.

You have a voice when you're a Boston and Maine railroad conductor.

So Jack Welch's father was a conductor on a train-

Yeah

Susie, I'm going to dovetail this all together with your acclaim at NY.

You had a father-in-law who, his voice, you have a voice when you're a Boston and Maine railroad conductor.

So Jack Welch's father was a conductor on a train a million years ago.

Yeah.

Read it as the train went past.

It was first tested in 1961 on the Boston and Maine Railroad.

And in 1967, the Association of American Railroads, the industry body, made it compulsory on every single car.

I love this part.

A different Green and Orange.

And then Boston and Maine, and the McGinnis Blue and Black, and the original Minuteman.

No, that is the Minuteman.

The original Gold and Maroon.

They're.

South of $100, maybe $60, $70.

The only negative thing is they don't make them in Boston, Maine, but they make them in Strasburg and, you know, New York Central, Pennsylvania, all the big names.

I'm sure they'll come out with Boston, Maine eventually.

All meetings were opened and closed with revolutionary songs.

One of the combined police and military attacks occurred at the north station of the Boston and Maine Railroad on February 24th.

The Strikers had adopted the French and Italian method of relief, that is, of sending children to friends in other cities.

without the cries of hungry children to cause surrender the strikers would win the plan was initiated by the italian socialist federation assisted by the socialist party both of which took one hundred and fifty children to new york city this was done with the consent of parents and under the care of physicians nurses and competent persons other groups had been dispatched to boston massachusetts and very vermont some four hundred children in all thus left lawrence their departure naturally served to lighten the burdens of the strikers at the same time it incensed the mill-owners and authorities of lawrence for by this method lawrence attained notoriety as a starvation wage-paying though highly protected industrial centre that was deserved if not appreciated by those who profited most from the fact so steps were taken to prevent further departures a party destined for bridgeport connecticut was first molested the absurd crimes of neglect and kidnapping were alleged though never proven even by the proverbial scintilla of evidence on saturday february twenty fourth a party of forty children destined for philadelphia under every precaution stipulated by the authorities was torn from escorts and parents while women and children were jostled and clubbed and thrown unceremoniously into a waiting patrol wagon thirty arrests were made among those hurt were pregnant women miscarriages resulting the militia drawn up in line outside the station maintained order while the police perpetrated the brutal outrage within when the sunday newspapers appeared next to-day with reports of the affair a wave of indignation rose from all over the country not only was the brutality but the unconstitutionality of the whole proceeding vigorously denounced were parents no longer free to send children where they properly chose was the right of free locomotion suspended in the united states united states senator poindexter on learning of the situation hastened from washington to lawrence for a personal investigation as a result he gave to the united press a denunciation of the mill owners and authorities that contributed greatly to aid the cause of the strikers right here it may be said that the united press by its truthful reports won the thanks of all fair-minded men during the strike it did noble work the february twenty fourth outrage also gave a great impetus to the congressional investigation into the entire lawrence situation initiated by congressman victor berger socialist party representative from milwaukee wisconsin on february eighth it must be said in berger's favor that his was the first investigation proposed in addition it was intended to be the most thorough though it did not end the strike as he claims it nevertheless contributed as one of many favorable factors to the victory it made public a mass of telling official information at a most desirable time this information is now embodied in house document number six hundred and seventy one of the second session of the sixty second congress every student of the lawrence strike is bound to avail himself of this invaluable document thanks to victor the end of the strike is now at hand on sunday march twelfth the committee originally elected to visit the american woolen company again went to boston and effected a settlement which later became operative in all the other mills the basis of settlement was a wage increase of from five to twenty five per cent the unskilled receiving the largest percentage time and a half for overtime adjustment of the premium system from four to two weeks pay and no discrimination The committee met the mill officials face to face.

We're, you know, constantly changing things left and right.

The scenery, we're doing scenery throughout, and it's w- mainly brought into about the Boston and Maine Railroad, where B&M kind of...

Guilford bought some of the rails and then so our club, New England Rails, bought, and scenario, bought the B&M some of the track rights.

So, you know, you'll have Portland, Worcester, trying to think, Adams, North Adams, out to New York area.

We'll get more requests and, and, and, and more, uh, you know, scrutiny on, on, on certain types of products depending on which part of the country we're in.

Like when we were in Springfield, the 1900s era passenger car, which, uh, just actually released recently in HO scale, when we showed the first sample of that, it being obviously based on a Boston & Maine car, drew a lot of interest and [laughs] and a lot of, uh, comments as well.

You know, people saying, you know, "Okay, like let's see.

Oh, yeah.

But it, it, you know, definitely there's obviously a difference in what they're looking for and what, and what really catches their eye in, in, you know, in terms of the models themselves.

Yeah, you would probably think down in the South there are big NS and maybe a little more s- a bit of CSX and of course Southern Railway.

And then of course up north we've got Boston & Maine and Maine Central and all the other predecessor railroads, New Haven, a little bit of Conrail.

I would imagine it goes everywhere, but it probably kind of in the same theme of what they're looking for.

She slowed her car and kept her eyes on the sky.

The light reappeared as she neared the Boston and Maine Railroad crossing, staying in view long enough for her to travel about two miles.

As she approached Goffstown, the light vanished once more.

Driving through the town, the light reappeared briefly before disappearing again.

And thus in less than sixty years this marvel of engineering skill as it was then considered, which was projected to last for all time, was switched off the track by its successful rival, the Boston and Lowell Railroad, and with the stagecoach and the turnpike road became a thing of the past.

The course of the old Middlesex Canal can still be traced as a cow path or a woodland lane, and in one place which I have always kept in remembrance, very near the Somerville station on the western division of the Boston and Maine Railroad, can still be seen a few decayed willows nodding sleepily over its grass-grown channel and ridgy paths, a reminder of those slow times when it took a long summer's day to travel the twenty-eight miles from Boston to Lowell.

The Boston and Lowell Railroad, probably the first in the United States, went into operation in eighteen thirty-five.

I saw the first train that went out of Lowell, and there was great excitement over the event.

I don't believe a word of it.

She'll break down and kill everybody, was the cry.

But the engine did start, and the train came back, and the Boston and Lowell Railroad continued an independent line of travel for about the same number of years as its early rival, when, by the irony of fate, its individuality was merged in that of a larger and more powerful organization, the Boston and Maine Railroad, of which in eighteen ninety-five it became only a section or a division.

But let us not regret too much this accident of time, for who knows what will become of this enormous plant during the next fifty years, when our railways perhaps may be laid in the unfeatured air.