No, those two pictures were in "The Trains We Rode". I also used to have a copy of "Mixed Trains Daily " in which the authors mention the mixed train in greater detail.
I think the book you're looking for is "Mixed Train Daily", also by Beebe and Clegg. The St. J & LC is mentioned but not pictured in "The Trains We Rode". St. J &LC had 0-6-0s, 2-6-0, 4-6-0s and 2-8-0s. All but the switchers were used on the mixed trains. Except for two of the 0-6-0s, which came from the McKeesport Connecting, and one of the 2-6-0s from the Montpelier & Wells River, all were ex-B&M, from Alco-Manchester or Alco-Schenectady.
I enjoyed (Fr.) Roy Kiggins article in the summer CT. I'm an expatriate Vermonter, but I never experienced that now-defunct railroad. I was all of two years old when the future Father made his trip in 1954. I vaguely remember the Rutland's green Alcos before that line went under.
Back in the 60's when I still had a copy of Lucius Beebe's "The Trains We Rode", in which, as I recall, there was one photo of a St. J & LC 70 tonner coming out of one of the covered bridges and another of a 2-8-0? of the same line pulling only a combination car.
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