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East Deerfield Trains

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MEC 7835 brings EDPO up to Cooks on July 22^nd of 2020.
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Pictures

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MEC 313 waits with EDWA at Danville Junction while the crew gets delivery orders on May 31^st of 2007.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 517 leads 330, 313, 210, 316, & 348 on EDNM at Congress Street on the 23rd of June, 2007. Most of this power was dead engines headed for Waterville.
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B&M 332 takes 506 and EDWA through Cumberland Center on the 17th of October 2007.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 319 & MEC 515 take EDNM and some special cargo eastbound through Cumberland Ctr on Nov 28, 2007.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 378 EDWA at Hacketts or Rumford Junction East in Auburn on the 29th of March in 2008.
Photo by John Erickson.
B&M 690 & B&M 332 are Eastbound with EDNM at Leighton Rd in Falmouth on 4-3-2008.
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MEC 306 and ST 690 wait with EDNM while the crew gets coffee at Congress St on April 12, 2008.
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MEC 343 EDNM at New Gloucester East on May 21st 2008.
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MEC 353 with EDNM at Woodville Rd in July of 2008.
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MEC 347 MECg EDRU Leeds Jct 7-17-2008.
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MEC 348 has EDNM at Belgrade on July 17, 2008.
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EDNM arrives at Waterville with MEC 348, ST 621, & 3 other engines on July 17th of 2008.
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B&M 690 ST 621 & ST 643 are Eastbound with EDNM at Congress St on July 31, 2008.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 378 in Gray on the 20th of August in 2008.
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B&M 690, ST 621, & MEC 508 are Eastbound with EDNM atCongress St on September 9th 2008.
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Check out the bell on B&M 690, it looked and sounded like it came from a crossing.
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B&M 333 leads MEC 348 and MEC 306 with EDNM past Congress St in Portland on December 16th 2008.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 515, MEC 511, +3 on the siding at New Glouster East with EDNM in tow on January 17th of 2009.
Photo by John Erickson.
MEC 519, MEC 316, & 2 others head east with EDNM at Gray on July 22nd of 2009.
Photo by John Erickson.
503 and 320 and a light EDRU on October 29, 2009.
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.

PanAm Symbol Descriptions
Symbol	Place	Symbol	Place	Symbol	Place	Symbol	Place
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

PanAm Southern Symbol Descriptions
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

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