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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.
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First "Pan Am" engine heading west 11/7

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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Pan Am engine

 #316726  by JacobBruce
 
Do you have any pics?

 #316749  by kilroy
 
I like the smurf look better than the Guilford grey.

HOHUMM

 #316775  by henry6
 
HOHUMM! Another blue unit with white letters....sure does the PANAM name proud...hope it makes them glad they sold the name to Guilford!

 #316827  by superwarp1
 
Not B&M but better than before

 #316887  by red baron
 
What a sad tribute to what was once America's premier airline. It looks nice, but looks more appropriate on a Clipper, such as a 747 or 727.
Juan Trippe is rolling in his grave........

 #317135  by paulrail
 
OK!...."smurfs" it is!

It's not bad but the nose really needs a logo or something! I was hoping they would come out with a little "classier" scheme.

When I did a model of "what if"...I basically followed the curret big G style.
Gray bottom B&M blue top, instead of gray and a white stripe, where the orange is. I replaced the big "G" with the white Pan Am logo. For my taste, it's a lot "dressier" and sharper looking.

Take a look:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... y=PAULRAIL

Paul

IT IS JUST ANOTHER REASON

 #317174  by henry6
 
It is just another reasons that locomotives are designated by "series" rather than by "class" today.

 #317191  by eriemike
 
When are they going to attach the wings? :P

 #317225  by octr202
 
eriemike wrote:When are they going to attach the wings? :P
I'm waiting for someone to photoshop a GP40 with the jet-pod that the NYC tried to attach to an RDC car on its roof.

 #317295  by eriemike
 
I know this off topic, but that jet pod on the New York Central came from a B-52.

Guilford, oh, I mean Pan Am should consider using surplus B-52 jet engines. The only problem is that I don't think you can keep those things throttled at 10 mph for long :P

The paint scheme, though better than the black/gray and orange, it looks as if it were just slapped together. Simply no imagination. I liked paulrail's rendition.

 #317343  by kilroy
 
I think Kilroy just named the new PanAm units SMURFS!
I'd love to take creidt but it wasn't me Otto, it was Dutch that named them smurfs.
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