Boston and Maine's lost boxcars and where to find them. (Part 2 of Abandoned Trains of New England)

In this video we take a trip on up into New Hampshire, finding abandoned 1950s era Boston and Maine boxcars in all the odd places, along with a few Maine Central waffle side boxcars that seem destined for reuse or the scrap bin.
ll photographs & video copyright 2024.
Sound effects courtesy:
VS Pop_8.mp3 by Vilkas_Sound -- freesound.org/s/463392/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

[@paulbergen9114]

It's possible the middle box car by itself on the disconnected track was purchased by whoever owns the building and is an extra warehouse for them. We used to have a about 4 here in Milwaukee but they have all been scrapped. Back when the Milwaukee Road shops were still open here there were 2 or 3 yards that held Freight cars that hardly ever moved as they were in wrecked condition or pretty much obsolete. God knows why they didn't scrap them a lot of money was tied up in that stuff just sitting around. Then came the big cutbacks and retrenching so a whole bunch of outside contractors worked at various places around the system torching the stuff

[@ltvsquad]

This is my best guess on why it landed here. B&M was probably offering them cheap to its customers (or former customers). There's a few of these storage boxcars around the northeast. Eventually I'll roll out more videos on them.

[@Michael-py8ti]

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[@shepaug]

PanAm..look at a rail map prior to Guilford...they were almost the end of railroads in part of New England, New Hampshire ? Bike Trails and zero interest in railroads. o--I heard Oan Am-Guilford never lost cent. Any rail line left is/was at 10 mph or less.