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Beside the crew from the Sappi Mill in Hinkley, there are two or three switchers, a daily train to Rigby, and usually Bangor as well. This is also one of the major repair facilities with a dead engine line and engine pool.
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MEC 606 WAPO gets help from WA-1 after stalling at Monmouth Maine on March 6th of 2020.
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MEC 3401, 619, 606, 507, and 604 bring WAPO through Hackets in Auburn ME on March 12th of 2020.
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PanAm MEC engines 515, 619, & 600 bring WAPO through Deering Junction in Portland on November 7th of 2020.
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PanAm MEC engines 7535, 7797, 7594, 5976, & 7541 bring WAPO through Lewiston on December 4th of 2020.
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ST 15 switching at Waterville on September 5th of 2005.
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WA-2 ferrys light engines down to Rigby on April 3rd of 2006.
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MEC 519, B&M 330, MEC 378, & MEC 345 head west with WAED at Danville on May 21st of 2008.
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MEC 519 on WAED at Danville in Auburn on May 21st of 2008.
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MEC 600 on WASE at Cooks on April 24th of 2010 still in HLCX paint.
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CSXT 5111 & 579 take over WASE at Deering Jct. on August 10th of 2010.
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CSXT 5111 on WASE at Deering Junction on August 10th of 2010.
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CSXT 5111 & 579 take over WASE at Deering Jct. on August 10th of 2010.
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Maine Central 376 WA-2 cans a work extra at Leeds Junction on the 23rd of July of 2014.
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WA-2 cans a work extra at Leeds Junction on the 23rd of July of 2014.
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MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
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MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
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MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
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MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 377, WA-3 in Waterville Yard on May 12, 2015 putting away new arrivals. These engines have not shown up in service.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC engines 321 & 353 on the west end of Waterville Yard on June 6th 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 |