Thanks to Robert John Davis, Rich Jahn, and David Monte Verde who posted some information and photos on FB. According to their posts, five artifacts were scrapped - two coaches, two cabooses, and a snow plow.
The first pic below shows the snow plow and one coach just prior to scrapping. The plow is Claremont and Concord Railroad Snowplow 60. It was built by the Boston & Maine Railroad Shops some time prior to 1910. C&C was a branch line of the B&M until 1954. According to the NPS it had a front truck with inboard bearings for better operation in the snow and the rear truck was a Fox-patent pressed-steel truck. I've seen earlier photos of this in VT and when it first came to PA. The Scranton winters really took their toll. Does anyone know the B&M road number for this plow?
The coach next to it was also scrapped. I believe this could have been one of several Pullman-built wood coaches (ca. 1910 or earlier), numbered in the 1200s by the Boston and Maine, that the Steamtown Foundation had up in VT. My understanding is that B&M added a steel underframe in the mid '20s and combine doors around 1950 at which time the cars were converted to MOW. The two photos of this car prior to scrapping are courtesy of RRPictureArchives.net and copyright Steve Pappas and Bob Keenan. Thank you to anyone with more accurate information on either of these two pieces.
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