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Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:57 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

Not a Pan Am customer, although it will be interesting to see how it affects the nearby Downeast Emulsions. Once Lane's finishes up, they'll be able to take sixteen asphalt tanks at a time, versus the 8 or 10 that Downeast Emulsions can take.

Re: End of Steam 1960

 by 690 ¦  Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:00 pm ¦  Forum: Central Maine & Quebec Railway (formerly Montreal, Maine & Atlantic | Bangor & Aroostook) ¦  Topic: End of Steam 1960 ¦  Replies: 9 ¦  Views: 2894

What was an amazing yard with ALCO C 636's and C-424's perking overnight became surplus land, and sold to local logging and trucking interests. Go figure. In my opinion, a huge step backwards. Not sure exactly where you came up with this, but CP owns the entire yard still (including the old B&A...

Re: CSX to acquire Pan Am Railways

 by 690 ¦  Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:01 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832768

Ayer blocks going to Rigby depends on how much room is available at Ayer, or if the Ayer traffic is souped into the train. If it's all together, and there's room, they'll set it out in Ayer. Lawrence/Lowell/Boston/Northern traffic typically does go to Rigby to be classified, when I was working there...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Sat Jan 16, 2021 8:54 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

Basically there is very little of the line that doesn't need to replaced in order to bring it up to what CSX would consider to be acceptable mainline conditions. The roadbed itself is shot in many places, beyond just dumping ballast and tamping and surfacing that.

Re: PAR Locomotive Fleet - General Discussion

 by 690 ¦  Fri Jan 01, 2021 7:34 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: PAR Locomotive Fleet - General Discussion ¦  Replies: 521 ¦  Views: 173359

The 600s are a good example of what happens when you beat the absolute piss out of an thirty-forty year old engine. Granted, a few of them (602) were crap when they came, but yeah.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:46 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

Negative. And the date for the other haulage traffic going back to Pan Am keeps getting pushed back as well - we're being told it won't go until May now. As for other existing customers, Pan Am also services Downeast Emulsions, which takes asphalt tanks, Galt Block as mentioned above (or whatever th...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:39 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

F74265A wrote:Which log business did CP drop and when? Missed that.
Under CMQ we were hauling logs from Huber and Golden Road in Millinocket to Jackman for Pleasant River lumber. CP nixed that pretty quick, largely due to the age of the log racks, and the little profit involved in moving the cars.

Interestingly enough, they installed defect detectors on the Millinocket Sub. Just one, at West Seboeis. Two installed on the Bangor Sub, at Lancaster Brook Road in Glenburn, and the other at Mill Road in Lagrange. Three installed on the Moosehead, one at Onawa, one at Long Pond, and the last one i...

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:11 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

Well, probably not, but unlike CMQ/CP, Irving's log cars aren't sixty years old, and CSX (hypothetically) would only have to move them twenty miles, rather than the 100+ that CMQ was moving them.

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:38 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

newpylong wrote:Did you switch employers 690?
Yes, went to the CMQ, then stayed with CP (so far).

Re: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

 by 690 ¦  Fri Nov 20, 2020 9:58 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529562

Supposed to be going back to Keag sometime next month according to what we've been told at CP. Irving is doing a 7000 tie spot replacement program up there (lol) right now. Nothing like trying to replace ties two thirds of the way through November.

Re: Pan Am Railways For Sale?

 by 690 ¦  Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:53 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832768

Yeah, they used to send it west when CN was still involved with intermodal out of Auburn.

Re: Pan Am Railways For Sale?

 by 690 ¦  Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:42 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832768

Pretty sure that was CN/SLR that froze Poland Springs loads, not Pan Am. Pan Am is pretty good about not letting the loads sit too long.

Re: Portland Waterfront Rail Ops (Yard 8, Intermodal, etc)

 by 690 ¦  Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:52 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Portland Waterfront Rail Ops (Yard 8, Intermodal, etc) ¦  Replies: 1657 ¦  Views: 379933

The transload at Rigby is Amerigas. They can take ten cars, and they transload directly into trucks there, there's no storage. Used to be a nice easy switch whenever I worked PO-6, not sure if they still switch it, or if another switcher does it now.

Re: Pan Am Railways For Sale?

 by 690 ¦  Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:38 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: CSX Acquisition of Pan Am Railways ¦  Replies: 4515 ¦  Views: 832768

What does Searsport have to do with CSAO being involved in a potential Pan Am sale? Searsport is solely CP, no other railroad has access, and it's highly unlikely any other railroads will get access, short of CP selling off the trackage, which isn't likely given their plans for it. Furthermore, all ...

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