POSE / SEPO (Portland - Selkirk trains)

Thanks Smitty for the heads-up on the wrong video I posted. I just changed it to the correct one. Also, good feedback on the box cars. I kinda thought CMQ would be the final destination.

There's a bunch of WRWK's that are being stored in Keag, could be more cars for storage.

The WRWK reporting mark is on an enormous number of railcars of all types around the continent - boxcars, intermodals, and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on lumber bulkheads as well. (I just drove around the U.S. for three months so I generalize with confidence about the continent.) These types of markings are clearly leased marks rather than the short line building their fleet, although I don't understand what advantage leasing a reporting mark confers these days. (I know it made a financial difference in the countdown to deregulation, e.g. Southern Pacific's gamble with the Golden West Service fleet and leased VCY, GVSR, and CRLE marks.) Another current example is COER (Crab Orchard and Egyptian), a tiny shortline in Indiana, whose reporting mark is on thousands of cars all over the place.
I'll stop here before I veer any further off topic.

Believe WRWK is the Warwick RY,folded into P&W ages ago.

SEPO went through Dover today at 5:00 pm. The crew stopped the train at the Amtrak station for about 15 minutes. One of the crew members got out and walked down street for a few minutes, not sure for what. Good sized train

There was tanker with reporting marks DCBX - which google led to Degussa Engineered Carbons - carrying Styronal NX, some kind of dispersal polymer manufactured by BASF. Anyone know where that is headed? I don't ever recall seeing that kind of car before

Likely answer to previous question, DD or Pizza House...

Dover House of Pizza is pretty delicious. I'm sure it's difficult to roll by without stopping.

SEPO with 15 Eimskip containers returning to Portland. Thanks to Austin Mcswiggin for this video, enjoy.
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15 empty containers in front of all that grain and propane on a line prime for dynamic breaks. Excellent make up, lol.

I don't know about these particular containers, but they haven't all returned to Portland empty.

Eimskip containers come home to roost.
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Video by Austin Mcswiggin

Yeah no kidding. And take a look at the car counts.... 95 manifest, 30 containers on flat cars = 125 cars.

Longest train I've ever counted or heard of on PAR.

It was very common before the mills went kapput in the mid 2000s when I worked there. I had many many 120+ MOEDs. Biggest was 142 cars, 8400 ft 14,000 tons. 3 CP SD40s, 3 ST units. Trains are slimmer now, but seem to run more frequent.

SEPO just derailed and tore up the west end of the Hill yard.

newpylong wrote:SEPO just derailed and tore up the west end of the Hill yard.

Detours via Gardner if there's room to switch ends?