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H/A Collection BMRRHS WP Photos
(Collection of Robert E. Chaffin)

The FRRS was contacted by Bradford Kippen on July 22, 2022, who is a volunteer on a project at the Boston and Maine Railroad Society (BMRRHS) scanning, preserving, and archiving a collection of negatives from Boston and Maine Employee Robert E. Chaffin between 1935 and ~1963. (Website: bmrrhs.org)

The majority of the collection covers the Boston and Maine, but there are other roads represented including a small collection of Western Pacific negatives from the late prewar / early postwar era. which he has shared with us.

He has generously provided a set of images files related to the WP from this project.

WP 0-6-0 - S-31 - 155 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-155-01 WP 155 Oroville, CA 09/05/1938 Built by Pittsburg 1909; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 11/1949 2/3 RF	WP 2-8-0 - C-43 - 34 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-34-01 WP 34 Keddie, CA 07/__/1940 Built by Schenectady 1909; Sold for Scrap to Hyman-Michaels Company 10/1951 2/3 LF
WP 2-8-0 - C-43 - 35 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-35-01 WP 35 Portola, CA 03/19/1939 Built by Schenectady 1909; Sold for Scrap to Hyman-Michaels Company 02/1953 2/3 LF	WP 2-8-0 - C-43 - 63 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-63-01 WP 63 Portola, CA 09/03/1938 Built by Schenectady 1909; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 12/1954 2/3 LF
WP 2-8-2 - MK-60 - 305 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-305-01 WP 305 Wendover, UT 10/31/1939 Built by Dunkirk 1918; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 01/1950 2/3 RF	WP 2-8-2 - MK-60 - 327 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-327-01 WP 327 Portola, CA 07/09/1939 Built by Schenectady 1926; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 04/1950 2/3 RF
WP 2-8-8-2 - M-137 - 256 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-256-01 WP 256 Portola, CA 07/10/1939 Built by Baldwin 1931; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company, Later scrapped by Purdy Company 05/1952 1/2 LF	WP 2-8-8-2 - M-137 - 257 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-257-01 WP 257 Portola, CA 03/18/1939 Built by Baldwin 1938; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company, Later scrapped by Purdy Company 05/1952 1/2 LF
WP 2-8-8-2 - M-137 - 259 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-259-01 WP 259 Saint Louis, MO 05/__/1938 Built by Baldwin 1938; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company, Later scrapped by Purdy Company 05/1952 2/3 RF	WP 4-6-0 - TP-29 - 78 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-78-01 WP 78 Wendover, UT 10/31/1939 Built by Dunkirk 1908; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 12/1949 1/2 RF
WP 4-8-2 - MT-44 - 171 - RHK - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-171-01 WP 171 WP 171 is ex FEC 403. Oakland, CA 01/29/1940 Built by Schenectady 1924; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company, Later scrapped by Purdy Company 10/1951 1/2 RF	WP 4-8-2 - MT-44 - 175 - REC - BMRRHS PN-REC-WP-S-175-01 WP 175 WP 175 is ex FEC 407. Elko, NV 10/30/1939 Built by Schenectady 1924; Sold for Scrap to Luria Brothers and Company 04/1950 1/2 RF