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The 2 freight railroads have no desire to be in the passenger business. Crews are expensive to properly train on freight service as it is. The MBTA/Keolis already hire away good C&E talent from the 2 of them now. So the ranks constantly need to be replenished on both now to cover freight assignm...

The ex-MMA junk at Greendale are to be sent off to Larry's Truck & Electric in McDonald, OH. Which ones will be rebuilt, patched-up or parted out, all depends on who has a need. My guess is the C30-7 and the F40PH will become razor blades, and the B39-8s will get patched up just based on recent ...

Well, a few things have changed 1) no more coal trains to Bow, NH since Fall 2016 Symbols - they are mix of NS and Pan Am symbols depending on where you are. This covers Mechanicville to Ayer trains you might see... Between Mechanicville and Ayer 14R - NS freight from Enola/Binghamton to East Deerfi...

That was PLED-07 that was put together with 3 units and waiting for a crew to take it north on Tuesday 11/7.
PL-1 had made the train up.

A little bird told me...
Running Portland, ME to East Deerfield, and possibly down Conn River to Springfield (if time allows) on Thursday 5/18

You are assuming they weren't knocking on Poland Springs door last 20 years.

Re: Andover complains about Pan Am train parking Postby BostonUrbEx » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:49 am From my understanding, the reason it went to Pan Am is because they were able to successfully argue that only they had the rights necessary to switch the customer. They dug deep into records on trackage a...

"For whatever reason, Pan Am has the rights to the traffic, not CSX. Otherwise you likely would have seen exactly what you described and Pan Am would not be needed at all in the equation - CSX would have been able to cut them out entirely." That is an assumption, I'm sure the 2 railroads l...

I was always told that the Pan Am OCS was referred to in some circles as the "circus train" for all of the clowns it carried.