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Maine Central diesel locomotives : ウィキペディア英語版 | Maine Central diesel locomotives Maine Central Railroad began operating diesel locomotives in 1935, and had retired all steam locomotives by 1954. That time interval was a joint operating period with the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M).〔 This article describes diesel locomotives owned by Maine Central through the period of joint operation and later independent operation prior to Guilford Rail System control in 1981.〔470 Railroad Club (1981) p.3〕 ==Locomotive purchasing history== Maine Central made annual purchases of new steam locomotives from 1899 through 1920. Changing economic climate following World War I terminated routine annual purchases. Economic restructuring in the early 1920s included purchasing a few modern steam locomotives in 1923 and 1924 while eliminating subsidiary branch lines serving Bridgton, Belfast and Franklin County. J. G. Brill Company Model 55 gasoline-powered baggage-mail motor car number 700 was purchased in 1922 and scrapped in 1930.〔''All-Time MAINE CENTRAL Diesel Roster'' in ''Extra 2200 South'' issue 86〕 Attempts to offer passenger service enticing people off Maine roads included purchase of the last two new steam locomotives in 1930 followed by joint purchase of the Budd Company Flying Yankee streamliner in 1935.〔Robertson (1977)〕 Two gasoline-powered switchers were purchased while exploring options to decrease operating costs through the Great Depression. Maine Central number 1 was Whitcomb Locomotive Works builders number 12981 built in 1929, acquired in 1932 and sold to National Fireworks Company in 1941. Number 2 was Plymouth Locomotive Works builders number 3957 built in 1938 and sold to New England Shipbuilding Corporation in 1942.〔Robertson (1978) pp.4-7〕 Maine Central's first wholly owned diesel-electric locomotive was an Ingersoll Rand railcar built as demonstrator OE-600 in 1933. The rear of the railcar included railway post office and baggage compartments. The railcar became Maine Central number 901 in 1935; and pulled a coach or two over the eastern division between Bangor, Maine and Vanceboro, Maine until 1947. It then spent two years pulling Rumford Branch passenger trains before conversion to unpowered maintenance of way tool car number 950.〔Albert & Melvin (1975) p.33〕
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