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Re: Pan Am's Heritage Locomotives

 by dnelson ¦  Mon Sep 28, 2015 2:46 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Pan Am's Heritage Locomotives ¦  Replies: 891 ¦  Views: 279668

As KSmitty pointed out, Burnham to Belfast was a Maine Central branch for both passenger and freight, owned by Belfast and Brooks but leased to the MEC (upon completion of track laying) from the early 1870s until the mid-1920s, when the Belfast & Moosehead Lake began running the railroad themsel...

Re: CMQ Motive power

 by dnelson ¦  Sat Sep 26, 2015 2:28 pm ¦  Forum: Central Maine & Quebec Railway (formerly Montreal, Maine & Atlantic | Bangor & Aroostook) ¦  Topic: CMQ Motive power ¦  Replies: 476 ¦  Views: 131554

Interesting choice. Ask any CP hogger and they'll tell you those locos are the most hated on the CP roster. CP had mechanical problems with them for years, which I would imagine have mostly been worked out at this point, but still, kind of a strange choice for a small regional, considering they're ...

Re: Lewiston Industrial Track/Lewiston Lower Rd/Branch statu

 by dnelson ¦  Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:53 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Lewiston Industrial Track/Lewiston Lower Rd/Branch status ¦  Replies: 742 ¦  Views: 250373

What looked like DO-1 was southbound with two GDJX hoppers around 6:00pm on Friday, April 17th through Freeport. I'm guessing they may have worked the L.I.T. as there weren't any interchange cars from Maine Eastern. Your guess is correct. The hoppers with GDJX markings belong to Grimmel's. They've ...

Re: New Hampshire Line

 by dnelson ¦  Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:30 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: New Hampshire Line ¦  Replies: 23 ¦  Views: 10019

It is really amazing that the State of New Hampshire did not do everything that could to prevent the track from being dismantled on the Northern Route. This is only main line that serves all of the largest cities in New Hampshire. If the rails were left in place north of Concord, a tie and crossing...

Re: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc)

 by dnelson ¦  Mon Apr 20, 2015 4:57 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc) ¦  Replies: 978 ¦  Views: 276344

Air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation, yet it has the potential for causing uniquely extreme disasters whether it be an entire plane of passengers and flight crew dying, or something even worse like 9/11. Crude oil unit trains are similar in the sense that should problems arise, th...

Re: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc)

 by dnelson ¦  Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:38 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc) ¦  Replies: 978 ¦  Views: 276344

Pretty weak article....Wouldn't have hurt to mention it was just one train, not a regularly occurring thing. Lets look at some numbers. Total killed by oil train derailments: 47 (all in Megantic). Death by oil train/year: ~12 (if we figure the oil boom started in mid 2011 we're about 4 years into B...

Re: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc)

 by dnelson ¦  Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:12 am ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Oil Trains (RJMA / MARJ, OI-x, etc) ¦  Replies: 978 ¦  Views: 276344

"Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railroad, which operated the train that crashed in Quebec, subsequently went bankrupt. The railroad’s new owner, Central Maine and Quebec Railway, has yet to ship any crude through Maine, according to filings." Pretty weak article. CMQ shipped the same oil t...

Re: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread

 by dnelson ¦  Sat Apr 11, 2015 8:00 am ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread ¦  Replies: 9451 ¦  Views: 2154449

From TRNE: The Joint Committee on Transportation tabled a bill that would fine passenger rail trains $2,500 per incident if they idle more than 30 minutes. If approved, it would have an significant impact on the Amtrak Downeaster. This is just the latest attack on NNEPRA by Senator Gerzofksy. His o...

Re: pan am snow plows

 by dnelson ¦  Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:24 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Pan Am snow fighting equipment ¦  Replies: 61 ¦  Views: 23803

in watterville the mec 80 the pan am painted plow is gone and the 2 mec plows from nmj are there does anyone know why? I think its becase the track is too bad to run them on and that's why they use a self propelled snow fighter. I don't think it has to do with the track, because they ran plow train...

Re: Current occupants of the Waterville dead line

 by dnelson ¦  Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:15 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: Current occupants of the Waterville dead line ¦  Replies: 66 ¦  Views: 30806

I didn't see a fifteen story scrap pile in the video either. I find it somewhat hard to believe there is a pile of scrap in Waterville close to that big. Fifteen stories = http://i2.wp.com/www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/devdev/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/building_9_Baltimore_FidelityDepositCo_191...

Re: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread

 by dnelson ¦  Mon Mar 30, 2015 4:17 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread ¦  Replies: 9451 ¦  Views: 2154449

Excellent reporting on the hearing, gokeefe. Thanks for taking the time to write out should an in depth post. What a bizarre event, you have to wonder how much the "Brunswick West Neighborhood Coalition" really cares about storm water at all, and how much they were just using it as their l...

Re: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread

 by dnelson ¦  Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:21 pm ¦  Forum: Amtrak ¦  Topic: Amtrak Downeaster Discussion Thread ¦  Replies: 9451 ¦  Views: 2154449

Residents of BWNC are concerned about: -already flood prone soil being displaced by the 500' building, overloading of storm water system -failure of NNEPRA to conduct soil test -Coal ash contamination of yard soil, which would be disturbed during the construction process, leading to groundwater/aqu...

As far as I know, the last freight east of Cathance on the Lower Road was Safe Handling bringing Guilford cars to Augusta via the former Maine Coast / Guilford haulage agreement. They stopped doing that because Safe Handling considered the payment they received for hauling Guilford's cars to be too ...

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

 by dnelson ¦  Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:02 pm ¦  Forum: Pan Am Railways (formerly Guilford Rail System) ¦  Topic: "Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings) ¦  Replies: 2553 ¦  Views: 529601

They were intentionally delivered to CMQ. Are we sure they were to stay in Waterville? Even if it was a POWA/WANM bypass train, they could have pulled the power off at Northern Maine. They went back to Waterville, they had just been along for the ride. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=102002...

You're correct about the Cobbosseecontee Branch, it was taken out of service in 1985. I mentioned it not to support the Lower Road's case as a better main line, but rather in the response to the notion that the Lower Road was a customer-less line. All the major Back Road customers are/were on branc...

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