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Re: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU

 by S1f3432 ¦  Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:28 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU ¦  Replies: 397 ¦  Views: 104945

Makes me wonder how many birds Decoster had at his high point in the 70's. At the time I was working for MEC in the area and can remember better than 100 cars of corn in the siding at Leeds Jct at any given time. The Leeds Jct agent-operator told me it mostly came from the thumb of Michigan and was ...

Re: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU

 by S1f3432 ¦  Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:13 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Rumford Branch, RUPO / PORU ¦  Replies: 397 ¦  Views: 104945

ND Paper was looking for a source of pulp when they bought the Rumford mill from Catalyst. #10 and #12 machines make white paper while #15, the largest machine in the mill has been converted to make brown packaging paper. #9 machine was converted into a pulp baler. If the customers for the paper pro...

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:58 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Portland Waterfront Rail Ops (Yard 8, Intermodal, etc) ¦  Replies: 1657 ¦  Views: 380016

This rumor bubbles to the surface every few years- I remember reading a version of it back in the period between the bridge fire and CN's sale of the line to Emmons/SLR. While the remains of the Back Cove trestle and swing bridge would probably need to be removed, acquisition of adjacent property mi...

Went by Danville Jct. this afternoon and QG 6904 was sitting at the end of a cut of cars on the former MEC
mainline where CSX leaves deliveries for SLR.

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529596

Some of the earlier speculation I had seen ( i.e. " business incubators " ) left me expecting little more than another underused warehousing facility. If this pans out, and the man behind the development certainly has the experience, this puts the woods operators and others involved in the...

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:20 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529596

Plans announced today to redevelop the Androscoggin Mill in Jay, ME to produce OSB:

https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/ne ... -mill-site

I'm not Fritz but 393 has been west through South Paris after 2200 pretty consistently the past couple
of months, returning eastbound about 5 hours later, usually 4 days a week- Mon-Tue-Thurs-Fri.

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:26 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529596

Over the past several weeks, demolition has removed most of the old IP Otis Mill in Livermore Falls, last operated by Wausau Papers. When I was by this morning excavators were working on the remaining structures close to the river. Next to the street and railroad only the clock tower remains standin...

Quite an ensemble of power at Lewiston Junction this afternoon including 3035-4024-3008-806-3806-4023.
4023 appears to be in a consist on the fuel track- has it been placed in service? I've heard some horns during
the night that are definitely "different" the past week or so.

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:08 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529596

RUPO arrived at Leeds Jct with 5948-5933 and 52 cars about 1130 and PORU arrived with
5972-7575 and 51 cars about 45 minutes later. Looks like the era of the GP40 is winding down.
Photos show the two versions of RUPO at Libby's Pit and at Danville Jct. I made a mistake
captioning the photos - sorry

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

 by S1f3432 ¦  Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:46 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529596

Rumford branch crew with 5948-2548-6142 westbound with 16 cars met Portland crew with 505-7622 and 19 cars at Leeds Jct after lunch today. Crews swapped consists, retaining the power they arrived with and headed back home. List of train symbols I found posted online lists L053 eastbound M-W-F and L0...

Re: Newbie - question about steam engines

 by S1f3432 ¦  Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:24 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion: Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Equipment ¦  Topic: Newbie - question about steam engines ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 287

Found this video which is an animation of a Union Pacific Big Boy showing how all the parts and pieces
operate with an good narration along the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hszu80NJ438

Re: Newbie - question about steam engines

 by S1f3432 ¦  Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:49 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion: Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Equipment ¦  Topic: Newbie - question about steam engines ¦  Replies: 3 ¦  Views: 287

Steam under pressure from the boiler, typically between 160 and 250 psi, pushes a piston in the locomotive cylinders connected by main rods to the crank pin on the main drive wheels, causing the wheels to turn. Not really all that different in principal than hot expanding gas pushing a piston connec...

SLR's new power, SD70MACs 4022-4023-4024 arrived at Lewiston Junction this afternoon. After backing some freight cars onto the branch and returning to the ML, units backed eastward down ML and then pulled into the east engine house lead, cut off trailing two units and pulled 4023 into the house. Aft...

Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year, everyone!

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