Via Kevin Burkholder & Yahoo GRS Group:
Guilford Rail System.to be or not to be? Interesting revelation in the
last week is that many of the recently sighted freshly-painted Guilford
boxcars are being re-repainted into a new Pan Am Railways scheme. I've
noted at least two, maybe three, variations of the scheme on the
boxcars which are emerging from the Waterville, Maine paint booth during the
past week. The boxcars wear a mixed coat of what almost looks like
Boston & Maine blue and Guilford grey. (A B&M PS 5344 boxcar sat adjacent
to these and matched perfectly - albeit with slightly faded paint). I
noted six cars today that had just the bottom halves painted in
Guilford grey, indicating to me that they are going in for the same Pan Am
Railways scheme as the cars depicted in my links below.
Now on an interesting side note, either Guilford is getting a jump on
April Fool's Day or there is something to this new name/scheme. There
is a fuel truck at Waterville now painted for Pan Am Railways, as well
as a pick-up truck with door logo depicting the Pan Am Railways and.with
drum roll playing.a worker relays A RUMOR that there is contemplation
on completing a GP40 that is being repainted into the Pan Am Railways
scheme! I can not verify this to be true, so it is merely just a rumor,
although with all of these logos turning up everywhere on everything at
Waterville, there may be some validity?
BTW, the variations of the boxcars include the ones with links below
and also cars with the logo on the left of the door and a large 12-14"
stylized PAN AM spelled out on the right in lieu of the Pan Am Railways
name. One such car emerging today (3/16) was MEC 31799. All of the
cars are carrying MEC reporting marks.
The links below take you to photos of two cars taken on 3/16/2005:
MEC 32132
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 001789.jpg
MEC 31881
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 511160.jpg
Guilford Rail System.to be or not to be? Interesting revelation in the
last week is that many of the recently sighted freshly-painted Guilford
boxcars are being re-repainted into a new Pan Am Railways scheme. I've
noted at least two, maybe three, variations of the scheme on the
boxcars which are emerging from the Waterville, Maine paint booth during the
past week. The boxcars wear a mixed coat of what almost looks like
Boston & Maine blue and Guilford grey. (A B&M PS 5344 boxcar sat adjacent
to these and matched perfectly - albeit with slightly faded paint). I
noted six cars today that had just the bottom halves painted in
Guilford grey, indicating to me that they are going in for the same Pan Am
Railways scheme as the cars depicted in my links below.
Now on an interesting side note, either Guilford is getting a jump on
April Fool's Day or there is something to this new name/scheme. There
is a fuel truck at Waterville now painted for Pan Am Railways, as well
as a pick-up truck with door logo depicting the Pan Am Railways and.with
drum roll playing.a worker relays A RUMOR that there is contemplation
on completing a GP40 that is being repainted into the Pan Am Railways
scheme! I can not verify this to be true, so it is merely just a rumor,
although with all of these logos turning up everywhere on everything at
Waterville, there may be some validity?
BTW, the variations of the boxcars include the ones with links below
and also cars with the logo on the left of the door and a large 12-14"
stylized PAN AM spelled out on the right in lieu of the Pan Am Railways
name. One such car emerging today (3/16) was MEC 31799. All of the
cars are carrying MEC reporting marks.
The links below take you to photos of two cars taken on 3/16/2005:
MEC 32132
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 001789.jpg
MEC 31881
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 511160.jpg