Welcome to Southern Maine Rail Pics

Videos

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• PanAm MEC engines 7585, & 3405 bring POWA through Monmouth on November 7^th of 2020.
  Video by John Erickson.

• PanAm MEC engines 509, 504, 321, & 326 bring PORU across Mill Rd in North Yarmouth on November 7^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.

Pictures

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  PO-1 takes MEC 347 westbound past Woodville Rd on August 1, 2012. They likely went to Brunswick.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  Boston & Maine 326 runs PO-1 in Westbrook on the 12th of August 2012.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  B & M 333 takes PO-1 and 7 cars east at Mountain Junction on July 21^st of 2014.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 374 has POWA at Hackets in Auburn on July 16th of 2015.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 305 with POWA at Libby in Lewiston on March 16^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 600 & 613 take POWA through Danville on December 28^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 600 & 613 take POWA through Lewiston on December 28^th of 2017.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 307 switching as PO-3 on Terminal St. in Westbrook, ME in the afternoon of Jan. 9^th, 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC engines 374 & 606 with POWA at Leeds Junction on May 23^rd of 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 506 leads POED at Cooks on Feb. 29^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7489 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 619 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 3400 awaits its next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 316 & 3400 await their next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7609 & 7605 await their next duties at Rigby Yard in South Portland on September 5^th of 2020.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  PORU switching engines around at Hackets in Auburn on October 3^rd 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 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 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 5972, 305, 313 & LTEX 3902 on PORU at Leeds Junction on December 19^th of 2020.
  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.