Welcome to Southern Maine Rail Pics

Pictures

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  MEC 7605 arriving with AYPO at PT Tower in Rigby Yard in South Portland on May 16^th of 2019.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7609 leading AYPO in at PT Tower in Rigby Yard in South Portland on May 16^th of 2019.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7635 and one more engine bring AYPO into Rigby at Cooks in Scarborough on September 21^st of 2019.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7727 on AYPO at Lawrence MA on March 13^th of 2020 at 09:02.
  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 7585 on the point of AYPO at Cooks in Scarborough, ME on May 1^st of 2021.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7643 riding second on AYPO at Cooks in Scarborough, ME on May 1^st 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.