| The pictures below show larger front and back views of this Old Boston & Maine Railroad Train Advertising Copper Pennies Pin. This pin is not dated but it is old. The pin that is pictured was found with the pennies advertising section. It looks like the correct type of pin that was on it, but we do not know if it is the original pin or a replacement. It is as it was found, and the pin back section will simply need to be re-soldered on to the back. The two round shapes are about the size of American cents. It is made of copper and the front side reads as follows: IN TRAINS WE TRUST
TAKE TWO PENNIES
AND RIDE A MILE
B AND M R.R. The advertising section measures about 1-3/8'' wide. It appears to be in good condition but the pin will need to be re soldered as pictured. Below here, for reference, there is a little additional information on the B & M Railroad: Boston and Maine Corporation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reporting mark: BM
Locale: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, & Vermont
Dates of operation: 1836 - 1983
Successor: Pan Am Railways
Track gauge: 4 feet 8-1/2 inches (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length: 2,077 miles (3,343 km)
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts The Boston and Maine Corporation (reporting mark BM), known as the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M), was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England. It became part of what is now the Pan Am Railways network in 1983. At the end of 1970, B&M operated 1,515 route miles (2,438 km) on 2,481 miles (3,993 km) of track, not including Springfield Terminal. That year it reported 2,744 million ton miles of revenue freight and 92 million passenger miles. History
The Andover and Wilmington Railroad was incorporated March 15, 1833, to build a branch from the Boston and Lowell Railroad at Wilmington, Massachusetts, north to Andover, Massachusetts. The line opened to Andover on August 8, 1836. The name was changed to the Andover and Haverhill Railroad on April 18, 1837, reflecting plans to build further to Haverhill, Massachusetts (opened later that year), and yet further to Portland, Maine, with the renaming to the Boston and Portland Railroad on April 3, 1839, opening to the New Hampshire state line in 1840. The Boston and Maine Railroad was chartered in New Hampshire on June 27, 1835, and the Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts Railroad was incorporated March 12, 1839, in Maine, both companies continuing the proposed line to South Berwick, Maine. The railroad opened in 1840 to Exeter, New Hampshire, and on January 1, 1842, the two companies merged with the Boston and Portland to form a new Boston and Maine Railroad. On February 23, 1843, the B&M opened to Agamenticus, on the line of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad in South Berwick. On January 28 of that year, the B&M and Eastern Railroad came to an agreement to both lease the PS&P as a joint line to Portland. The Boston and Maine Railroad Extension was incorporated March 16, 1844, due to a dispute with the Boston and Lowell Railroad over trackage rights rates between Wilmington and Boston. That company was merged into the main B&M on March 19, 1845, and opened July 1, leading to the abandonment of the old connection to the B&L (later reused by the B&L for their Wildcat Branch). In 1848 another original section was abandoned, as a new alignment was built from Wilmington north to North Andover, Massachusetts, in order to better serve Lawrence, Massachusetts. A new alignment to Portland opened in 1873, splitting from the old route at South Berwick, Maine. The old route was later abandoned. This completed the B&M “main line” which would become known as the Western Route to distinguish it from the Eastern Route which also connected Boston and Portland. |
