Glad you enjoyed it, we are lucky today to have recordings and images like these!

@@bmrrhsI agree

Glad you enjoyed it!

Much appreciated! More to come for sure!

Thank you! More to come!

That shed is still standing? Can you tell me where? I work in Milford.

@@FKreider Frank, it’s right on Cottage street across from the dance studio, still next to the tracks!!! Big red barn! Old remnants of the tracks going into the building as well that you can sometimes see through the grass behind the chain fence!

@@alfrancisnh I will have to go take a look, do you mean over by Depot Street Tavern?

@@FKreider We may be talking 2 different Milford’s here hahaha! Milford NH!

@@alfrancisnh ohhh yes, I was talking MA. There are old rail lines that have been pulled up and part of it is now a rail trail so I thought you meant Milford, MA!

What's your e-mail address? I have one I can send.

Indeed, one is preserved, 1455 at the Danbury Railway Museum.

The 410 in Lowell is owned by the National Park Service; we do not own it. The locomotive was taken out of service at H.E. Fletcher Quarry over 60 years ago due to boiler conditions; it would need a new boiler. It will never operate again, there are no plans to make it operable, nor does it have any place to operate. Not every locomotive is a candidate for operable restoration. 410 is in good cosmetic shape. The B&MRRHS spends countless volunteer hours painting and cosmetically restoring the locomotive. The attached combine coach is home to a lovingly maintained exhibit to Lowell's railroad history, and it is open to the public. We do as much as we can with our volunteer base to accurately and fittingly honor the history of the B&M. If you think that something should be done differently, then join as a member and volunteer your time.

It will need a new boiler - Okay, so do other engines that have been restored to operating condition. The stevenson valve gear is missing parts, other equipment has been removed, stolen. National park service does not care one bit about that engine. I saw what they have done in Scranton PA with their collection of rotting, rusting derelict engines and rolling stock. As for 410 - paining over rusting nuts, bolts and what not is not preservation and it is not good cosmetic shape at least as of June, 2023. You can not make a silk purse from a sow's ear and that sow is long dead. As far as my joining and volunteering my time - Why? What is the purpose of putting paint over rust? What could I do to help an engine that I don't even own, have no control over and whose fate has already be determined. Volunteering my time to do what? You guys certainly don't help matters by not treating the obvious rust and corrosion. Plus, your little clique would not take kindly to an outsider giving advice and direction. I would be delighted to work on any engine that was going to be operational. But to waste time painting a derelict engine that everyone has already given up on - That's a waste of time just like putting paint over rust. The paint peels off and the rust becomes worse. What does that engine do for you. I would almost bet that there is not one person in your organization that could explain what is missing from the engine, much less explain what everything that still exists is and how it all works.It is a shame, a disgrace to see an engine like that is such poor condition, left out in the weather, rotting away. Were can it operate? There are plenty of short line RR's that would allow it on their rails if it was not at their expense. No plans, Then why bother in the first place. What benefit is that engine doing for the general public of Lowell. There is no one to explain how it works, what it does and why it does it. Every engine IS a candidate for restoration if someone wanted to do the project. @@bmrrhs Don't give me reason for NOT doing something. Find reason to salvage that engine if it means so much to you. The park service doesn't want it - that is evident. By the way, since it sits on trolley rails - it can go where the trolley goes. You are determined to tell me why that engine will never run again. You are not telling me anything about why it should be restored. I promise you one thing, In less than 20 years, it will be gone, sent to China to be made into razor blades. All the paint in the world is not going to stop the deep corrosion that already exists - allowed to exist by your organizations determination to do a good job of caring for it. Mark my words - ALL engines sitting in the weather have two possible endings - They are scrapped or they are restored by people who really care enough to do something about it. 6 months ago I could see, carefully painted on the side of the boiler one word - SCRAP. When you are ready to restore an engine to working condition, let me know. I'll be there. Look at the big B&M Engine in the National Steamtown display - 28 years and it is still not finished. It is sitting in one of the best equipped machine shops in the country (which is not saying much) and they still can't finish it. By the way - How do you know the boiler must be replaced. Have you had it measured. Boilers can be replaced, you know - or do you??? After all, they are repairing 3985. 410 is a tinker toy compared to that project. When you are ready to strip all your cosmetic paint off that engine, get down to bare metal, remove and treat all the rust and corrosion, then properly paint the engine, let me know.