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Pictures of BM 300
 
Owner: Boston & Maine
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:BM 300 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:776025-1Order No:776025
Frame Number:776025-1Built:12/1977
Other locos with this serial:  HLCX 512(GP38-2) BM 300(GP40-2) HATX 512(GP40-2) ONT 2201(GP40-2)
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Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  B&M 201 has been added to the consist, and will soon lead a train east toward Deerfield. The third unit, 300, would join 301 to become the power for the road slug set.
Photo Date:  2/17/1981  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 3:20:21 AM
Location:  Mechanicville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BM 201(GP38-2) BM 309(GP40-2) BM 300(GP40-2) BM 205(GP38-2)
Views:  1031   Comments: 0
Ready power
Title:  Ready power
Description:  B&Ms last new power was 17 GP40-2s in 1978. They sported the road name spelled out on the long hoods, and looked good even a few years into their service.
Photo Date:  2/17/1981  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 3:24:58 AM
Location:  Mechanicville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BM 309(GP40-2) BM 300(GP40-2) BM 205(GP38-2)
Views:  1201   Comments: 2
Class unit
Title:  Class unit
Description:  B&M 300, class unit of the 17 GP40-2s on 1978, sits at East Deerfield yard. It was by this time mated with B&M 100 their road slug, and B&M 301. and would go out later that afternoon on a westbound.
Photo Date:  3/29/1983  Upload Date: 11/1/2013 12:50:23 AM
Location:  East Deerfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BM 300(GP40-2)
Views:  490   Comments: 0
Road slug
Title:  Road slug
Description:  B&M had a road slug set consisiting of GP40-2s 300 and 301 sandwiching slug 100. Heres a shot of the slug as it departs E Deerfield yard.
Photo Date:  9/6/1983  Upload Date: 11/22/2013 1:12:26 AM
Location:  East Deerfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2)
Views:  1010   Comments: 0
B&M slug set
Title:  B&M slug set
Description:  B&M slug set 301/100/300 heads west from E Deerfield yard
Photo Date:  9/6/1983  Upload Date: 2/27/2011 6:33:07 PM
Location:  East Deerfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BM 301(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2)
Views:  1240   Comments: 1
Southbound on the bridge
Title:  Southbound on the bridge
Description:  A southbound SC 3 led by a mix of power crosses the Mohawk River at Cohoes
Photo Date:  12/4/1984  Upload Date: 6/10/2012 2:55:43 AM
Location:  Cohoes, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  BM 200(GP38-2) DH 7401(GP39-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) BM 301(GP40-2) MEC 286(U23B) MEC 470(GP7u)
Views:  1516   Comments: 0
Slug set in action
Title:  Slug set in action
Description:  The B&M slug set has a train in tow and is heading for Albany.
Photo Date:  12/4/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:09:37 AM
Location:  Mechanicville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) MEC 286(U23B)
Views:  1015   Comments: 0
Full shot of slug set
Title:  Full shot of slug set
Description:  Roater shot of the slug set from the uncoupled end.
Photo Date:  12/4/1984  Upload Date: 8/1/2014 3:11:59 AM
Location:  Mechanicville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  BM 301(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) MEC 470(GP7u) DH 7401(GP39-2)
Views:  1032   Comments: 0
What a power set
Title:  What a power set
Description:  SC 3 rolls south from Mechanicville to Kenwood with a set of power only the D&H could assemble.
Photo Date:  12/18/1984  Upload Date: 9/24/2014 1:57:00 AM
Location:  Waterford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  BM 200(GP38-2) DH 7401(GP39-2) MEC 286(U23B) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 300(GP40-2) MEC 470(GP7u)
Views:  1117   Comments: 0
Slug set and a semaphore
Title:  Slug set and a semaphore
Description:  The B&M slug set, now repainted into the Guilford scheme, leads three other units past semaphore 251-1 and the Tioga County transfer station as it leads NY 9 toward Buffalo
Photo Date:  8/5/1986  Upload Date: 9/22/2012 2:09:24 AM
Location:  Barton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40)
Views:  1123   Comments: 0
B&M slug set
Title:  B&M slug set
Description:  B&Mslug set 300/100/301 leads westbound train SLN3, symbolled DHT9 on Conrail, at Waverly NY
Photo Date:  8/5/1986  Upload Date: 11/11/2011 1:34:52 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40)
Views:  1253   Comments: 1
SLN 3 goes west
Title:  SLN 3 goes west
Description:  SLN 3, now symbolled DHT9 on Conrail, as it is now a D&H train, rolls west past the Owego station sign at Mc Master St behind, among other things, the B&M road slug set.
Photo Date:  8/5/1986  Upload Date: 12/7/2014 2:57:23 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BM 300(GP40-2) BM 100(Road Slug) BM 301(GP40-2) BM 306(GP40-2) DH 7317(GP38-2) BM 338(GP40)
Views:  813   Comments: 1

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