Beaufort and Morehead City (NC)

The B&MC serves just that area near the North Carolina Atlantic coast line. I saw it switching the port of Morehead City and the DOD tank cars for camp LeJeune and Cherry Point (MCAS), Havelock, NC. Four pictures of the motive power:

The FM here may belong to the NC port authority, but the engines were all working together when I saw them.

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Just shows that if you treat 'em with TLC, they'll be just as sweet in return....

 

Cool pics, Flash!

When were they taken? I have a couple of their old center cabs,,,,

Harold

 

Hey, here's one of it's kin! Looks sharp, eh?


Harold

 

Harold:

I took those in the early 1990s. Just wandering around the port at Morehead City. I have a nice NS jeep set up to run both ways, too. I need to find it.

Is the FM in your picture Beaufort and Morehead City, too? Looks like Seaboard.

 

Flash,
I think the FM worked at the port with the other one... I'll have to research it. It definately looks like a Seaboard inspired scheme.

Harold

 

It is a "fake"... it actually worked at the ports, not for B&M: http://www.ci.salisbury.nc.us/nctrans/Rolling_stock/Diesel/1806/1806info.htm

Harold

 

Here's a link to some b7w photos of their old center cabs:
http://www.taplines.net/December/dindex2.htm

Harold

 

Here's one in color!
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_bmrr85.jpg

Harold

 

The FM at Spencer was on Radio Island. There was a second one, but that one was white, and in Wilmington. It has no association with WM. The Beaufort And Morehead really dosn't exist any more, part of NCPA.
The Mullet Wrapper (local term for newspaper) had an article about how 1860 was sold on Ebay.

Two of the old Whitcomb 80 tonners are still here, the yellow Grace and one of the blue ones, repainted now.

 

HI Iain,
Welocme to TrainBoard! Thanks for the information, too. I admit to not knowing any other diesels besides EMD and GE.

Harold