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This daily manifest usually leaves Waterville in the early morning.
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MEC 518 leads WAPO at Gray on the 6th of May 2005.
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B&M 332, MEC 516, MEC 306, & MEC 348 with WAPO at Browns Crossing on the 7th of September 2011.
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MEC 510 & 601 run west with WAPO at New Gloucester East on September 17, 2011.
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MEC engines 350, 370, & 373 arrive at Blake with WAPO on January 23rd, 2013.
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MEC 517 leads WAPO at Danville on the 5th of February, 2013.
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MEC 613 & HLCX 8072 roll through Auburn with WAPO on April 11th, 2013.
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MEC 613 & HLCX 8072 doing the switching for WAPO at Danville on April 11th, 2013.
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MEC 381, B&M 340, MEC 333, and WAPO pass Mountain Junction on the 29th of May in 2013.
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Hours of service timing can cause some odd things like, BNSF 9779, BNSF 9892, BNSF 9687, HLCX 8070 & MEC 608 running WAPO at Libby in Lewiston on June 26th 2013.
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MEC 615 leads WAPO at Hacket's on July 3rd of 2013.
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HLCX 7842 is the second engine on WAPO at Hackets on July 3rd of 2013.
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MEC 371, 381 & 348 bring WAPO along as it heads west through Lewiston on July 9th of 2014.
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MEC 514 leads WAPO westbound at Allied in Auburn on August 6th of 2014.
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MEC 509, GMTX 3003 and the DJ-1 crew lead WAPO westbound at Danville in Auburn on August 7th of 2014.
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MEC 603 Leading WAPO at den on August 25th of 2014.
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MEC engines 605, 619, & 604 as WAPO at Danville East on March 18th of 2015. They have left their train at Rumford Junction to make a pickup.
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MEC engines 605, 619, & 604 as WAPO at Danville East on March 18th of 2015. They have left their train at Rumford Junction to make a pickup.
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MEC 614 leads WAPO at Allied in Auburn on January 30th of 2016.
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MEC 519, & 517 with WAPO at Danville in Auburn on March 31st of 2017.
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MEC engines 3401 511 & 7605 take WAPO over Hackett Rd in Auburn on December 28th of 2017.
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MEC 3403 with WAPO at Den in Lewiston on August 17th of 2018.
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MEC 606 3400 and 3404 lead WAPO through Sanders on March 6th of 2020.
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MEC 3401, 619, 606, 507, and 604 with WAPO preparing for the pickup at Danville Jct. on March 12th of 2020.
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20201204 103925 MEC 7535 WAPO Den.JPG MEC 7535 leads WAPO at Den in Lewiston on December 4th of 2020.
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MEC 5976 assisting on WAPO at Den in Lewiston on December 4th of 2020.
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MEC 371, 381 & 348 bring WAPO along as it heads west through Hackets on July 9th of 2014.
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MEC 371, 381 & 348 bring WAPO along as it heads west at Allied on July 9th of 2014.
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WAPO westbound through Gray with 614, 603, 340, 337, 345, & 370, 32 loads and 17 empties. The extra engines were being transfered.
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MEC engines 600 3404 and 604 with POWA meet WAPO with MEC 327 and 7605 at Leeds Junction on December 30th of 2017.
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MEC 7489 leads the way on a combined WAPO/RUPO westbound at Congress St. in Portland on March 16th of 2019.
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MEC engines 7545, & 7898 lead WAPO westbound at Falmouth, CPF 192 on April 13th of 2019.
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MEC 606, 3400, & 3404 + 4 other engines put WAPO back together at Monmouth Maine on March 6th of 2020.
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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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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 |