Welcome to Southern Maine Rail Pics

Pictures

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  347 MECg POWA New Glouster 4-11-2005.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  B&M 335 & MEC 301 have POWA at Royal Jct. in Yarmouth on the 16th of May 2005.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 502 has short power on a short POWA at Royal Junction on March 23rd of 2006.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  ST 216 has POWA at Congress St on June 21^st of 2006.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  HLCX 6329 leads POWA toward Waterville at Falmouth on July 22^nd of 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 619 leads POWA at Fairgrounds in Lewiston on August 30^th of 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 380 POWA cross Woodville road in Falmouth on the 1st of October in 2011.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 516, MEC 379 +1 at Blake in New Gloucester with POWA in tow on January 23rd of 2013.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  GMTX 3003 & MEC 601 lead POWA at Hackets on the 6th of February, 2013.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  Wave to the crew of the 314 as they take POWA across Court Street in Auburn on June 25th 2013.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 343 takes POWA east near Packard in Readfield on June 24th of 2014.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  B&M 333 with 6 other engines and POWA at Hackets in Auburn, ME on the 10th of January 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  373 arrives at Waterville yard on September 5th, 2005.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 510 leads POWA in Auburn on July 13th, 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 374, & 510 at Hackets in Auburn on July 16^th of 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 374 has POWA at Hackets in Auburn on July 16th of 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 518 & B&M 330 lead POWA at Leeds Junction on July 29^th of 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 519 & 518 lead POWA through Den in Lewiston on August 3^rd of 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 347 near Annabessacook Rd in North Monmouth with POWA on May 19^th of 2016.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 317, 321, & 610 pull POWA through Lewiston on February 27^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 305 with POWA at Libby in Lewiston on March 16^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 600 & 613 take POWA through Danville on December 28^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 600 & 613 take POWA through Lewiston on December 28^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 321, 604 & one more engine with POWA at Merrill Rd in Lewiston on January 20^th of 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 374 & 606 with POWA at Leeds Junction on May 23^rd of 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

Videos

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• MEC 343 & B&M 342 haul POWA through Royal Junction on April 8th of 2005.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 347, 377, 517, & 379, & ST 621 pull out of the siding at New Glouster with POWA on April 11th of 2005.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 514 & MEC 321 power POWA up the hill at Read St in Portland on November 5th of 2009.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 517, HLCX 6404, HLCX 7182, & MEC 608 power POWA through Gray on May 6th of 2010.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 514, GMTX 3003, and BM 335 take POWA through Libby on August 9^th of 2014.
  Video by John Erickson.

• It's a mixed bag of power on POWA today, MEC 518, NS 3470, MEC 321, & GMTX 3001 as they come across the Androscoggin River bridge into Lewiston on August 28^th of 2014.
  Video By John Erickson.

• MEC 519 leads 518, 503 and 343 with POWA through Green on July 22^nd of 2015.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 306 leads GMTX 3005, 345 and 518 with POWA through Green on July 26^nd of 2016.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 312, 505 & 377 arrive with POWA at Strawberry Ave on September 20^th of 2016.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engines 600 3404 and 604 take POWA through Green on December 30^th of 2017.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engines 600 3404 and 604 with POWA meet WAPO with MEC 327 and 7605 at Leeds Junction on December 30^th of 2017.
  Video by John Erickson.

• PanAm MEC engines 7585, & 3405 bring POWA through Monmouth on November 7^th of 2020.
  Video by John Erickson.

• PanAm MEC engines 7585, 7518, 506, 7534, & 619 bring POWA through Oakland on December 4^th of 2020.
  Video by John Erickson.

Symbols

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.