CSX Track Upgrades & Infrastructure of Pan Am

RJ Corman is finishing up in Benton today, looks like they are doing the guard rails on the bridge over the Kennebec. Rail has been installed from CPF-110 to just east of the bridge in Benton.

A few observations on the ongoing work on the Stony Brook.
The RJ Corman tie gang has finished up as of last Friday.
A surfacing crew continues to work in various locations.
Last Saturday they replaced track panels on Bridge St. under grade bridge in Westford.
Today a crew from "One Rail Group" with a flash butt weld truck and grapple truck cutting in new IJ's at Town Farm Rd. crossing.---https://www.onerailgroup.com/

A work train ran up to Hinkley yesterday and dropped a few miles worth of relay on the branch.

Does anyone have a chart of where the new signals are going in on the Portland Sub? Seeing wayside units going in all over the place, but would love to have more of an idea where.

Not sure where the rail gang is working, but it looks like Corman and GBI have done all but one switch panel at Mattawamkeag. The remaining one is over in the Permatreat lot and looks pretty mangled, my guess is it was damaged during installation. It also looks like they only reinstalled the east switch at Lincoln. The west switch is still sitting next to the station in sections, guessing it won't be reinstalled until they replace the old crossing for the mill, since the rails for the second track were removed about 5 years ago.

Up at Mattawamkeag CSX has installed a permeant compressor, however it looks like the portable rental ones are still being used.

MaineRailfan wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 8:24 am It also looks like they only reinstalled the east switch at Lincoln. The west switch is still sitting next to the station in sections, guessing it won't be reinstalled until they replace the old crossing for the mill, since the rails for the second track were removed about 5 years ago.

They're putting Lincoln siding back in? Are they doing any others up there? Most of the passing tracks up there have been OOS for something like a decade or more I think.

Just using it for a pocket track. It was last used around 2018-2019. They derailed the crane the bridge and building department had on it and after that they straight railed it. The only other siding to store stuff between Mattawamkeag and Old Town is Enfield, so there is a need.

And the CSX rail crew has been working in Oldtown/Enfield the past week?

They are somewhere between Old Town and Mile 34, not exactly sure where exactly. They might also might be on their 6 day vacation still.

Pictures on the CSX B&E &NS railfans Facebook site show the turnout at the siding located at the School st. crossing in Chelmsford has been removed This is the site of the former freight house (which is in need of a lot of work)

Edit at 9:43 pm---- In addition the crossing was replaced.

Interesting, Pan Am did that panel about a year after they did the welded on the Stony Brook, it was 10 over the switch until they put it in. Must have been heavily damaged or something.

Or they don't ever plan on using it for MOW so they removed it.

I noticed in the pictures the removed turnout looks in very good shape, complete with e-clips. They probably have a better location to put it to good use.

Probably got reused at Rigby or some other yard/customer track. If its like what they did on District 1, it will eventually get replaced with a 136 LBS turnout.

The current google maps image of Lawrence yard (no idea when taken) shows work being done there. A number of turnouts are laid out on the north end, ballast piles here and there, a few tracks look to have been rehabilitated and something- maybe a transload?- is being constructed on the east edge with a new stub track with several new turnouts laid out beside it