"Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

Yes, WA-1 was busy, WA-2 was either running a local, or being used to recrew a road freight, and WA-3 was in Northern Maine, I believe.

Yep would be WA-R

Four jobs on at the same time in Waterville? Sounds busy ....

Not necessarily in Waterville, just based out of Waterville. WA-2 will often recrew POWA, and the WA-3 crew does a lot with the WANM/NMWA trains.

The crews might be "WA" but they get cabbed all over creation to actually go to work.

You've got you're 4 basic crews:
WA-1 is the day yard switcher.
WA-2 is a typical grunt work local: East Augusta, Detroit, Oakland, recrew whatever as needed.
WA-3 is the basic utility crew, covers whatever 1 and 2 can't. Recrews, etc.
WA-R is backup to cover whatever 1-3 cannot.

It might be busy, and WA-R might get called more than say a year ago, but its only because of the cuts down east. There are no more crews based east of Waterville, assuming NM-1 has been cut, if it hasn't yet, its on the chopping block. So anytime a Bucksport or 'Keag runs, or a NMWA/WANM/SAPPI outlaws and needs a recrew a "Waterville Yard" crew gets stolen to cover.

Interesting. That makes a lot of sense.

anyone know when they are planning to make the move to mattawamkeag?

Was supposed to go today, but they went Bucksport way instead, probly tomorrow.

KSmitty wrote:The crews might be "WA" but they get cabbed all over creation to actually go to work.

You've got you're 4 basic crews:
WA-1 is the day yard switcher.
WA-2 is a typical grunt work local: East Augusta, Detroit, Oakland, recrew whatever as needed.
WA-3 is the basic utility crew, covers whatever 1 and 2 can't. Recrews, etc.
WA-R is backup to cover whatever 1-3 cannot.

It might be busy, and WA-R might get called more than say a year ago, but its only because of the cuts down east. There are no more crews based east of Waterville, assuming NM-1 has been cut, if it hasn't yet, its on the chopping block. So anytime a Bucksport or 'Keag runs, or a NMWA/WANM/SAPPI outlaws and needs a recrew a "Waterville Yard" crew gets stolen to cover.

Are there any active customers in Oakland? Thanks.

AIM.

Plus they go out and shuffle around cars in the yard/on the Madison.

321 and 374 pulling into old town yard with what look to be more cars for 'keag

Photo by Jeff J. Bray:

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Just curious,how much trackwork was done between Waterville and Bangor this year?

pnolette wrote:Just curious,how much trackwork was done between Waterville and Bangor this year?

A LOT, and there appears to be more being done. I believe I saw MoW working with a string of gravel hopper cars in Winthrop today. A snow storm is expected to drop 6-10'' this weekend but if the weather continues "as is" it won't stay on the ground (which is not even close to being frozen yet).

Last I checked Winthrop wasn't between Waterville and NMJ.

But there were lots of ties replaced, and ballast dumped. The rebuilt interchange at NMJ is mostly completed, and next year will most likely be more intensive, with the Tiger Grant approved.