B&M RR MAG.,10/47:MILK BY RAIL;CRESCENT TOWER;PORTLAND DIV.TRACK;TROY,NY;TOWER A

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Your bid is for the October 1947 issue of the BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD MAGAZINE. This digest-sized publication measures 15.6 by 23.5 cm, contains the normal 32 pages, and was printed by the Rumford Press of Concord, NH. The front cover by Staff Photographer, George H. Hill, depicts No.11 outward bound at Scarboro, Maine. Portland Union Station was just 10 minutes away. FROM COW TO CONSUMER, by Editor Cliff Somerville, details the business of handling fluid milk by rail over 3 pages, including the 4 photos show below. Now you know why this issue is so hard to find even tho thousands were published. Milk is a hot commodity with rail historians and model rail artists! MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS lists and shows Ernest Bloss, Lawrence Richardson and Paul Dunn. Expensive Juice tells how an auto battery may cost , but batteries for a railroad psgr car can cost ,200. KEEPING THEM MOVING shows and tells how numbered placards were used at QS, Crescent, New York, Tower to notify inward trains which track to use in the Mechanicville Receiving Yard. Well, OK, but hard to read in the dark and bad weather. At East Deerfield Tower, we used the normal finger and hand signals and that worked just fine. But trains were moving at yard speed... supposedly. When QS closed, MC Office could post the numbers at Mechanicville West electronically, and I did that until the work was transferred to North Billerica. EXTENSIVE TRACK WORK ON PORTLAND DIVISION by Vincent M. Sheridan, Dover Headquarters Reporter, tells this story over 3 pages, including 4 photos. No shirts, no vests, no hardhats, no safety glasses, no gloves.... did anyone survive? NEW CONTROL TOWER AT TROY GUARDS TWO CROSSINGS rates a fine captioned photo. AMONG THOSE RETIRING lists 5 men and Mary Grogan, who was too modest to pose for the camera. GATE TENDERS CREATE FINE GARDENS fills a page and a third with two photos from Tower A and the story. HOW WE'RE DOING shows a minute income of ,318 for July 1947. THE SUGGESTION SYSTEM shows 2 Concord Shops men and lists some 17 other winners, including turntable operator, Alice G. Butler. RECEIVE GOLD PASSES tells of 4 new men who passed the 50 year test. WITH THE BOSTON AND MAINE FAMILY covers pages 17-31 and includes 37 photos, including one of the Woodsville Crossing Tower, which will interest modelers who need construction details. The rear cover compares DEMOCRACY and COMMUNISM and is most amusing in light of changes in the past 65 years. This magazine is in excellent, museum-quality condition.
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