Welcome to Southern Maine Rail Pics

Videos

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• PanAm MEC engines 7535, 7797, 7594, 5976, & 7541 bring WAPO through Lewiston on December 4^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.

• PanAm MEC engines 5972, 305, 313, & LTEX 3902 bring PORU through Curtis Corner in Leeds on December 19^th of 2020.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engine 600 takes DJ-1 through Deering Junction in Portland on December 31^st of 2020.
  Video by John Erickson.

Pictures

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  505 wears a unique paint job and has NMED at Leighton Road on October 1st 2009.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  503 and 320 and a light EDRU on October 29, 2009.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  BM 334 and MEC 320 take RUED through Falmouth on the 11th of November 2009.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 312 leads B&M 330 through Deering Junction after leaving their train (RUPO) at CPF 192 on May 11th of 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  HLCX 6329 leads MAED at New Glouster East on June 10th, 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  HLCX 6317 HLCX 6404 and another engine have SEWA at Congress St. on July 27^th of 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  HLCX 6329 & MEC 601 with NMSE at Cooks on August 17^th of 2010.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  CSXT 721 SEPO at Cooks in Scarborough on October 16^th, 2012.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  BNSF 7428 with a westbound Oil Extra at Danville on the 4th of February 2013.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  This train was called SJPO and was eastbound at Den with MEC 618, BNSF 5141 & B&M 337. The SJ might have been for Saint John, New Brunswick.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 511, & GMTX 3109 head west with SJPO at Hackets on July 10th of 2013. The SJ might have been for Saint John, New Brunswick.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  PAR 1 & 2 running light at Leeds Jct on April 19^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7622 works Lawrence Yard as AYPO at 09:04 on March 13^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 5930 & 5967 lead 16-R in Greenfield, MA on March 15^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 321 & 353 on the west end of Waterville Yard on June 6^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  RI-1 with MEC engine 503 on the east end of Rileys Yard in Jay on June 13^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 512 & 351 on RUPO at Allied in Auburn on December 12^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 5972, 305, 313 & LTEX 3902 on PORU at Leeds Junction on December 19^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 600 with DJ-1 at Blake in New Gloucester on January 7^th of 2021.
  Photo 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.