Maine Central Railroad Passenger Equipment

This is not complete, but for the moment I have most of the MEC's post-WWII passenger fleet

• Roster of Maine Central Passenger Equipment
• Maine Central Pullman-Standard Lightweights
• Maine Central Heavyweight Parlors

This compilation was begun from the January 1951 Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment , with car types obtained from Wayner's Pullman Co. List of Cars - 1950 and built dates checked against Wayner's Pullman Panorama . It has been expanded with information from Kratville's Passenger Car Catalog and John Hay of Philadelphia, PA.

The Maine Central was not a particularly passenger-oriented railroad, particularly after World War I. Service on most branches declined rapidly as roads improved and automobiles became more common. The only services commanding much prestige were the Boston - Bangor expresses operated jointly with the Boston & Maine and the summer-only all-Pullman Bar Harbor Express. Accordingly, with a few exceptions, MEC steel passenger eqipment was originally purchased for joint operation with the B&M and eventually downgraded and reassigned to other runs as it was replaced by newer cars.

Maine Central Passenger Equipment

Maine Central Pullman-Standard Lightweights

Maine Central Heavyweight Parlor Cars

Wayner's Passenger Car Catalog hints that these were from lot 4493, the same as the B&M's three Plan 2417D cars. As with the B&M's parlors, they don't appear to have been operated by Pullman under contract in the post-WWII era.