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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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 #1339266  by jbvb
 
It was about 40 years ago that Carl Martland and others at MIT's Center for Transportation Studies were publishing research demonstrating that maximum-length trains were significantly less reliable than shorter trains. People who actually learn from the past are often more successful than those who don't.