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When traffic warrants a separate train for Waterville and Bangor PONM will run and usually only change engines at Waterville to continue to Bangor in a better time.
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B&M 340, and MEC 315 and 2 other engines haul PONM Eastbound at Royal Jct on August 23, 2005.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 511, MEC 314, & ST 621 head east with PONM at Congress St on September 12th of 2006.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 511 head east with PONM at Mountain Junction on September 12th of 2006.
Photo by John Erickson.
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PanAm used a four character symbol to refer to each train that could tell you where the train started from and where it ended up. Long distance trains got four letters, the first two for the origin, and the last two for the destination. Switchers got two letters a dash and a number. The nicknames used could confuse this though (Sappi-3 was actually SP-3, I believe). The OCS (Officer and Crew Special) was a passenger train used to reward employees for good service and give dispatchers, company officers, and prospective customers a look at the lines. It usually consisted of three former parlor service cars pulled by two FP9 locomotives built in 1954. And the Oil Extra was a train that ran as a stop-gap measure during the Lac-Mégantic accident and Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway bankruptcy and sale to the Central Maine and Quebec Railway.
I will list the symbols I know with their end point city or town.
Symbol | Place | Symbol | Place | Symbol | Place | Symbol | Place |
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AY | Ayer, MA | BA | Bangor, ME | BF | Bellows Falls, VT | BK | Bucksport, ME |
BO | Boston, MA | DJ | Danville Jct., Auburn, ME | DO | Dover, NH | ED | East Deerfield, MA |
LO | Lowell, MA | MA | Mattawamkeag, ME | NA | Nashua, NH | NM | Northern Maine Jct., Bangor, ME |
PL | Plainville, CT | PH | Portsmouth, NH | PO | Rigby, S. Portland, ME | RI | Riley's, Jay, ME |
RJ | Rotterdam Junction, Rotterdam, NY | RU | Rumford, ME | SE | Selkirk, NY | SJ | Saint John, NB |
SP | SAPPI Mill, Hinkley, ME | WA | Waterville, ME | WJ | White River Jct, VT |
Symbol | Discription | Symbol | Discription |
22K | Intermodal from Chicago (47 Street Yard) to Ayer | 23K | Intermodal from Ayer to Chicago (47 Street Yard) |
16R | Manifest from Binghamton to East Deerfield | 11R | Manifest from East Deerfield to Binghamton |