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  • Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.
Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways in 2006. Discussion relating to the current operations of the Boston & Maine, the Maine Central, and the Springfield Terminal railroads (as well as the Delaware & Hudson while it was under Guilford control until 1988). Official site can be found here: PANAMRAILWAYS.COM.

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 #1502135  by Dick H
 
All painted and unpainted GE's are lettered for MEC.
There are five (5) GP40s (300 series) with BM reporting marks.
All other PAR locos are lettered for the MEC. The two OCS
units are lettered as PAR. However, that is not a registered
reporting mark.
 #1502139  by 690
 
PAR 1 and 2 are MEC units.

Regarding the units being assigned to the Maine Central versus B&M or D&H: Pan Am has no affiliation with the D&H and therefore can't use those reporting marks, and the speculated reason for MEC vs BM is because of cheaper taxes in Maine (where the Maine Central is based) versus Massachusetts, where the B&M is based.
 #1502357  by KSmitty
 
They were purchased outright, financed through "BMO Harris Equipment Finance Company, some retroactively, as the units listed on the final page as MEC are also in a previous recordation with GE listed as the lender. Though its not in the recordation, I heard the initial group of C40's was purchased for around 200K/unit, and following orders for a percentage less as they opted not to purchase warranty and GE technical service which saved pretty substantial coin.

STB recordation for 24 of the GE's its not all of them, but a good chunk anyway. More may show up, as STB seems rather slow to post recordations...
https://www.stb.gov/recordations.nsf/ec ... /32812.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1502432  by gokeefe
 
eustis22 wrote:thank you

Interesting...Maine Central Railroad Company at Iron Horse, not Pan Am Railways.
Still registered under the 1862 charter in Maine by the way.

I was wondering about tax implications on that equipment. For example in Maine there might be business equipment taxes in the municipality in which the equipment is considered to "reside".
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