According to Bruce D. Heald in "Boston & Maine Locomotives," Quoting Harry A. Frye in "Minuteman Steam," early in 1942 the B&M leased five Vanderbilt-tendered Mikados from the Erie RR, repainted and renumbered them 2801-5, found them unsuitable and returned them to Erie by the end of June 1942, just a few months later. Perhaps my young mind played a trick on me, but I could swear I saw just just such an ugly, low-drivered, side rod-clanking locomotive on the Pemigewassett Branch in August of 1942 or 1943. And it wes definitely not freshly painted. Can anyone tell me if there were possibly any similar low-drivered locomotives (other than switchers) operating on the B&M during the war years? (None of the K-8 Consolidations were "low-drivered" to my knowlege.)
Dick
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