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Lights and partial gates (no arms) installed at the almost, very west end of Commercial St. Track services the IMT to the east.
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There is new track work going on at the IMT. Crushed stone in place, parallel to the existing track, ties and new rail stacked on site.

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Thanks for the reply,
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Thanks for the explanation. Any idea as to penalties to Pan Am for causing delays ?

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Hello all, can someone explain how-or if- delays caused by Pan Am result in penalties, monetary or otherwise, to Pan Am? On 3.28.18, I rode 686 to beantown and experienced a delay of about 1/2 hour. The conductor said that it was because the 'bridge' only had one track and that the freight train was...

The other day I saw a long string of tank cars on the track east of the Broadway crossing, going to Turner's Island. Any ideas as to what's going on with them? Scrapping outdated tank cars, maybe?
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I wonder if the improved ridership is partially due to the earlier departure time from Boston to Maine on non event days. I think it may be much more desirable for many travelers to leave Boston at the earlier time and reach the northern destinations earlier as well. 6pm-ish is too early for many, 1...

Quite a few years ago P.D. Merrill in Portland, attempted to sell logs to a Japanese group. He amassed a huge stockpile of Hemlock logs along Commercial Street next to-maybe in-old yard 8. They sat there, for what seemed months. The story was that when the potential buyers cam to inspect the the 30 ...

Pan Am has spotted Emskip containers once again in the loading area on Commercial Street after about a month of no action.
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4:30 PM, 6.30.17
Pan Am 7561 and 7535 with 110 tank cars and 2 buffers, heading west past Mountain Branch on track 1
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2:55 PM, 6.30.17
Two Pan Am 600's with mixed freight heading west on track 1 at Mountain Branch.
Included at the end of the train were 30 water containers-25 on the usual spine cars and 5 containers in single well cars.
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690, thanks for the clarification
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I haven't seen any water train activity at the Commercial Street site for a couple of weeks. There are a lot of chassis in the intermodal loading area next to the tracks. Are they just concentrating on the Waterville trains now?
Anybody know what the story is?
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Wednesday, 31.2017, 4:35pm: Two old CSX units with Pan Am 3401, 3402 following heading east past the Mountain Branch on track 1. Included in the the mix were 30 empty Emskip containers. I haven't noticed any water being shipped out of Portland in the last week. Not much in terms of rail traffic in g...

5.23.2017, 4:30 pm
Pan Am train heading east on track 1 past Mountain Junction with 'new' Pan Am (old CSX) 7552 and 7517 in the lead with Pan Am 371 and 502 following.

It's the 1st time I've seen any old CSX go eastbound past Mountain Junction actually hauling a train.
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