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The best place to view the Rigby Pool from is 20 Sunset Ave. South Portland, ME 04106, 43°37'24.0"N 70°17'54.5"W. If you don't know where the line is and get to close at other places the police will boot you out, and you are above them anyway.
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ST 51 awaits new duties in Rigby Yard, South Portland, ME on January 6th of 2005.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 306 and PO-1 work the east end of Rigby on the 2nd of February, 2005.
Photo by John Erickson.
B&M 327 at Rigby on the 25th of March 2005.
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ST 71 at Rigby Yard in South Portland on April 26th, 2005.
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MEC 308 at Rigby on May 5th of 2005.
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CSXT 7395 BNSF 7005 & FURX 7269 in the engine pool at Rigby on August 30th of 2005.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 301 MEC 349 MEC 350 arriving at Rigby on the 13th of October, 2005.
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B&M 333 in the Rigby engine pool on the 26th of October 2005.
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CSXT 4834, and 5105 at Rigby on the 26th of October 2005.
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MEC 305 at Rigby on Sept 5, 2005.
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ST 62 at Rigby on July 13th of 2006.
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ST 72 at Rigby on September 3rd of 2006.
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B&M 328 and MEC 506 arrive with NMED at Rigby on the 18th of May 2008.
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NS 5329 at Rigby in South Portland on June 18th of 2008.
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HLCX 6318 at Rigby on July 16th of 2009.
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MEC 505 is resting with HLCX 6450 at Rigby Yard on November 17th 2009.
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MEC 507 at Rigby Yard on January 9th, 2010.
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MEC 514 at Rigby on January 9th of 2010.
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Rigby Yard on March 18th of 2010, just after the demise of the roundhouse.
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CSXT 902, & MEC 349, 519, & 354 in the Rigby Engine Pool on May 18th of 2015.
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MEC 7595 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on July 18th of 2020.
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MEC 7595 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on July 18th of 2020.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 7489 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5th of 2020.
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MEC 619 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5th of 2020.
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MEC 3400 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5th of 2020.
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MEC 316 & 3400 await their next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5th of 2020.
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MEC 7609 & 7605 await their next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5th of 2020.
Photo by John Erickson.
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 |