Welcome to Southern Maine Rail Pics

Pictures

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  MEC 7535, & 7875 come out to Cooks to back in on their train, POED, on October 6^th of 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7535, & 7875 come out to Cooks to back in on their train, POED, on October 6^th of 2018.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7518 being prepared for a POED run at Rigby Yard in South Portland on April 27^th of 2019.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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  MEC 7575 being prepared for a POED run at Rigby Yard in South Portland on April 27^th of 2019.
  Photo by John Erickson.

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

Videos

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• 313, & 511 at Cooks on the 21^st of September, 2011.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 615, & MEC 607 with POED at Cooks on October 5^th of 2011.
  Video by John Erickson.

• POED and MEC engines 7545, 7517, & 510 head out across the marsh at Winnocks Neck on June 9^th of 2018.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engines 7535 & 7875 at Cooks Crossing, Scarborough backing on to their train on October 6^th of 2018.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engines 7489, & 7835 lead POED westbound at Cooks, CPF 201 in Scarborough on April 27^th of 2019.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC engines 7517, 3403, 7528, 7605, & 7609 lead what looks like POED westbound at Wells on May 16^th of 2019.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 3402 & 619 taking POED through Cooks in Scarborough on November 16^th of 2019.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 7545 3401 & 7518 haul POED through Cooks in Scarborough on November 23^rd of 2019.
  Video by John Erickson.

• MEC 506, 606, & 7627 haul POED through Cooks in Scarborough on February 29^th of 2020.
  Video 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.