Pan Am's Heritage Locomotives

Kind of an inevitability on those GP9s unless they get daily washes. But besides those streaks, they don't usually let the 52 or 77 get too dirty.

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Casey,
Was wondering the same thing myself!

Hazens is a south/west facing switch.

My guess is they dropped the car down behind the engine at Hazens for the return leg. Baring that the only other option would be to use the wye at Whitefield and run around the car on the MEC, but I think that is full of stored cars?

Well, they could drop the whole string on the old MEC, run around to the Hazens end, shove and drop the boxcar out on the main by the diamond, and pull the tanks back into the MEC siding for storage, returning to the B&M main with the loco to go back to the diamond to get the boxcar. Really no other way to do it, unless they do flying switches...

Gravity.

Funny to think that somewhere out in the woods, on an old forgotten branch line in northern New Hampshire, unbothered by the prying eyes of inspectors, that 19th century railroad practices might still endure.

LOL. It is something to behold.......

Still allowed on most railroads including Pan Am.

newpylong wrote:Still allowed on most railroads including Pan Am.

No kidding. I didn't realize that. Thanks!

The interchange track right at the diamond in Whitefield. Perhaps wrong wording, but it is a way to get from the BM to MEC at the west end.