A Sleeping Giant: East Deerfield, Final Days of Pan Am Railways
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2022
- To skip to the beginning of trains moving, go to timestamp 5:58.
On April 13th, we headed out to Pan Am's East Deerfield Yard. Little did I know that STB was approving the CSX-Pan Am Acquisition. See my thoughts on it here:
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as Steven J Brown says in his Chicago railfan videos "Document the boring, common and mundane now because it might become speical and rare later"
That’s why we travel, to see new places and railroads that we may not be able to see again!
In Danny Harmon's juice train video, he said to capture the unusual and document the ordinary (something like that) because one day, it may all be gone.
East Deerfield is a good place to see trains, in fact I’m at EDY right now
All the New England railroads should have rebelled against CSX even thinking of purchasing PanAm. This railroad will run things down, close East Deerfield yard and slowly eliminate customers. Seen this happen in so many places. Their slogan should be, 'It sucks to be you' !
CSX is testing their network connection to all of Pan-Ams control points.
They are running through all of the functions and testing each control bit to find any problems on the network to schedule repairs.
You will see switches and derailers and signals being tested cycling through all of the possible indications
And over the next few weeks you should see repair crews out making repairs to anything they find that is not working 100%.
I would expect them to be installing the Ku band two-way satellite dishes on all of the control point bungalows as well as cellular backups on the bungalows.
I don't know if they will be replacing any of the signals but the bungalows will be getting new equipment to conform to CSX Network standards.
great video.
Wow. Those are bad switches. I am sad though to see most likely the days of all of pan am's old power. And I believe 2 days later after you shot this I caught that ns trio coming south on 11r
The Tech train will be going through all the tracks and switches to identify any areas that need replacement.
CSX plans to run fast, time is money, so they will be doing a lot of work this summer.
Please find and listen this country train song "I'M MOVING ON BY HANK SNOW, I think you'll like it, chris
4:00 that canal is always up to that footbridge, situation normal. It seems fast moving but that's it's job as opposed to a navigation canal. The intake would have to be controlled. Any excess or seasonal would simply flow down the river's normal path.
Pan Am Failways! Love it!
Pan Am Railways 1 second ago
Are you calling us a fail? Takes one to know one! You're a fail because your mother was expecting what ever came out of
her to be a little better and less ugly than you. No wonder she and your father left you, and you were never adopted. Parentless piece of shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you calling us a fail? Takes one to know one! You're a fail because your mother was expecting what ever came out of
her to be a little better and less ugly than you. No wonder she and your father left you, and you were never adopted. Parentless drunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@panamrailways7327 damn bro nice insult for the truth, one pan am doesn’t know how to run a train without blowing up in 30 miles
Awesome!! Typical Pan Animus breaking the switch. Usually what we do is head west to find 16R. And chase it back to ED
Will try that next time but I was waiting there for ED-4 and EDBF.
@@NorthCountryTrains I’m going to try on the 30th. For MEC 3405. That or go to Lowell to see what’s in that area
I wonder if host Matt Bown from the show "extreme trains" is still employed by Pan Am???
Not sure. That was a good show!
On one hand I was happy to the see the name out there, but on the other "Pan Am" was never meant to be a railroad. Aviation was its first, best destiny. Also, Timothy Mellon.. just "no".
He created a near impossible challenge for CSX to try to fix! 😆
I used to monitor the ATCS transmissions and I had a server when I lived in Malta.
I miss the action
I keep trying to find people who would be interested in having a monitor site to feed the data to my server
It would be nice to have again!
There have been several Pan am locomotives moved to the Binghamton yard but I don't know where they went after that and I'm not sure if they are being sold or least or retired just being sent to be painted the CSX colors
Just filling in for NS power I think.
We just saw a group of Pan Am Power at the Lordstown Yard in Ohio. Not sure If they are being refurbed or scraped. So many diesels there it’s hard to say
The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore; not like they did back in 1954
Not on Class I and II railroads, shortlines remain friendly in many cases
@@NorthCountryTrains my friend, I hope it's not just to those cellphones!
Please find "I'm moving on" by HANK SNOW, I THINK YOU'LL LIKE IT! It's a real country song!
Pan-Am lore
Rip to all the silly Dash 8s ❤
Rip to the 2 that were scrapped
All of the others are hard at work
Still at a loss to figure out what PanAm Railways brings to the CSX table.
Id think its more northern maine rail routes where they can ship lumber directly.
Still at a loss myself, we can only hope they don’t pull a CP and actually invest in ALL types of traffic on the railroad.
Maine Lumber, a connection into Canada, and Poland Spring water is PanAms largest customer by far (think Tropicana juice train in Tampa)
Is that the EOT device or ATCS you are monitoring ?
EOT only
The connecting track is known as “the loop”. It’s certainly nowhere near as busy as it was 40-50 years ago. Great video buddy!!
I thought I heard that. Why do they cal it that? Thanks for watching!
@@NorthCountryTrains They used to run a couple trains between Portland and Springfield and they could “loop” from the Fitchburg to the Conn River. Also the Springfield to White River Jct trains used the loop to make their set off and pick ups at East Deerfield. That was quite the act to watch.
switch is not broken, the engine was crouding the switch, all he had to do was back off it more!
It's sad to see Pan Am go bye bye but at least Maine will have more Trains now and 2 Years ago in Maine CP bought CMQ and now it's CSX buying Pan Am this is crazy
Glad you’re optimistic, but even CSX themselves say there won’t be any more trains for at least a few years. CP’s acquisition of CMQ reduced trains drastically.
@@NorthCountryTrains no more Trains on what?
@@csxohiorailfan2473 You said CSX would bring more trains. I’m telling you that won’t be happening for a while.
@@NorthCountryTrains oh ok is that because they have a lot of work to do on the Railroad and then after that they’ll run more Trains?
Are you kidding me sad to see par go?
Pan Am did get the short end of the stick to be fair. Second hand equipment, poor infrastructure, PTC problems, etc. I try not to think it’s the company managements problem although it very well could be. I tend to think it’s more of a streak of bad luck
We all know who’s fault it is… not investing AT ALL!!
@@NorthCountryTrains Very true!!!
Pan Am/Guilford has had 40 years to fix what they got from B&M, so not there aren't really any excuses for continued deferred maintenance.
nah Guilford was always bad
Pan Am / Guilford has and always will be horrible, their powers cool but their slow trains and bad track isn’t good
Let’s hope CSX and G&W’a B&E (Berkshire & Eastern) Will fix this right, I for one am happy to see this “Nuisance railroad” being revamped in a good right
Being that your so much a young "Yout" !! Lol
It's not so much Pan Am it's still Guilford just with Dark Blue paint and a bunch of newer GE's and SD's by Guilford's standards !!! Lol Trust me I've been railfanning the "B&M" and all the NE Roads since 1972', Yes I'm and Olde Baaastard born in Boston and live in NH the last 28yrs right on the mainline in Exeter, NH.
The b40-8 s sopposed to be retired!
Me in my head saying pls don't go into scrap
It would be a shame
The whole place is scrap 😅
A giant - WHAT??
Pimple on the ass
Another microphone which is not protected from wind - very amateur!
Pan Am sucked! Along with GTI Guilford Springfield Terminal. It was the same circus different clowns. Glad Guilford/ Pan Am is gone. But the damage was done. So glad I am retired. So glad for the delete button...
6:00 B40-8 not B20-8