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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.

Moderator: MEC407

 #1443166  by MEC407
 
Photo by Matt Baj, Jr.:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=239985" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Photos by Bruce MacDonald:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=239981" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=239980" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1443250  by 690
 
You can do that with any freshly painted engine next to a run of the mill freight engine, lol. For a real comparison, put the NS OCS next to Pan Am's, and see which one upstages the other.
 #1443275  by MEC407
 
I'll say this: Pan Am's business train makes Florida East Coast's look like it was slapped together. All the equipment is mismatched and the HEP generator is in a box in a well car.

Photo by Kevin Andrusia:

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=2306051" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1443284  by riffian
 
That's not a "business train", its a special movement with CSX business cars, and only one FEC car. Unlike PanAm, FEC doesn't field a business train, and also unlike PanAm they run a first class operation.
 #1443288  by MEC407
 
riffian wrote:That's not a "business train" . . . Unlike PanAm, FEC doesn't field a business train . . .
How do you figure? They keep an observation car ("Azalea") and a standalone HEP generator just for the heck of it? It might be just one car and just one generator, but a train's a train, and they conduct company business aboard it; by definition, wouldn't that make it a business train?

As for the rest of what you and newpy wrote, I don't disagree.
 #1443410  by MEC407
 
Photo by Alan E. Marshall:

http://photos.greatrails.net/s/?p=240019" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1443840  by MEC407
 
Photo by Doug Boudrow:

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/630400/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1444241  by MACTRAXX
 
Everyone:

After looking at the PAR locomotive pictures to me now Pan Am Railways is today's version of
"Big Blue" using Conrail's former nickname. This is a good simple color scheme. :-)

MACTRAXX
 #1444430  by Engineer Spike
 
Where is the info about the number which the software shows having to be the same as the road number? After the Conrail split, I had lots of Conrail engines, which had been renumbered for NS. The display screen had Conrail xxxx, while the road number had been changed. These were microprocessor units, like SD60Ms, and -8 40CWs.
 #1444433  by KSmitty
 
Engineer Spike wrote:Where is the info about the number which the software shows having to be the same as the road number? After the Conrail split, I had lots of Conrail engines, which had been renumbered for NS. The display screen had Conrail xxxx, while the road number had been changed. These were microprocessor units, like SD60Ms, and -8 40CWs.
New FRA or other agency rule? Don't know. Thats what I'd heard.
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