"Reminiscing With Russ" Presentation Features Slides From the Fifties and Sixties
March 14, 2017 -- B&MRRHS Historian and retired B&M conductor Russ Munroe took a crowd of fifty members back to the days of late steam and early diesel power with a presentation of slides he made in the 1950s and early 1960s. The presentation was made at the Society’s general meeting held on Saturday March 11, at Rogers Hall in Lowell.
Russ grew up in Marblehead and the show started with passenger and freight action around Marblehead and Salem on the now-abandoned Swampscott and Marblehead Branches. Also featured were trains on the abandoned Stoneham Branch.
Some of the equipment making an appearance were B&M No. 3235, the railroad’s last Atlantic 4-4-2, Unit 1140 (Sacred Cow), the Fiat Railcar, the Talgo Train in Salem in 1964, and the gravel train in Medford for construction of Route 93.
The Society’s next general meeting will be held at Rogers Hall on April 8. This is a joint meeting with the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts.
