I'm gonna miss the FP9s but that geep somehow does look right up there on that mountain.
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This is a nice shot but I really have to disagree with your statement about the B&M and the B&A. To start with, the B&A features some of the steepest railroad grades in New England and constructing it presented many engineering challenges, such as the many crossings of the Whitefield River via massive, hand-built, stone arch bridges. Then there's the B&M with the nearly five-mile long Hoosac Tunnel, which claimed the lives of two-hundred workers during it's construction and required electrification until the invention of diesel powered locomotives. So no, the engineering challenges faced on the MEC were not greater than that of the B&A and especially not the B&M.
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