Pan Am Railways, Remembered
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Pan Am Railways, also known as Guilford Rail System (GTI) or Springfield Terminal (ST) is a railroad many love to hate. Most of my Pan Am memories center around southern Maine, but I've encountered the regional railroad everywhere from Rotterdam, NY to Waterville, ME. East Deerfield, Rigby, and many other iconic locations are shown.
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As much as I don't like Guilford. I am going to miss those blue and white deisels coming through on the Massachusetts trains. I'm glad we were both able to document them
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It was summer 1988 3 years after I graduated high school I had moved to Hampton New Hampshire. One spring night I heard something weird so I walked to where the noise was coming from and I saw EMD Springfield Terminal GP 7 #20. I watched them roll the cars past the locomotive hook up and depart. I met Wally and Bobby the second night Wally invited me in and showed the massive steam generator it was huge! Wally explained it was bought as Portland Terminal# 1081 to Maine Central # 581.Though we became great friends it wasn't until GP 39-2 # 369 Guilford painted D & H ex reading unit. Wally told me to stand over and watch him? I did this for 3 or 4 days. It was my birthday on Monday, Wally asked me if I got the idea on how to run a locomotive? I said I think so Wally and Bobby said happy birthday engineer! I was so nervous but confident with Wall 18 inches from me.. I did the switching all that week. I have run Gp38s, GP 38-2 GP 39-2 GP 40 GP 40-2. Wally and Bobby both have passed then they ripped up the Hampton Branch I still have the memories of my 2 best friends ever! Now I'm 58 and I still think back to the good old days switching the lumber yard. I usually ran a couple days a week while Wally relaxed. I got that good!
Pan Am used to have "flying stock" rather then rolling stock. I miss Pan Am Airways.
Very nice video. Good narration. 👍🎥
Nice tribute, at 8:19 thats a good friend of mine, Leo Corriveau. He retired a few months later. He started off on the Bangor and Aroostook before going to the Saint Lawerence and Atlantic, then to Guilford, and finally Pan Am.
Very cool! Hope he enjoys his retirement!
Also 2548 is the only CSX geep up here. They tried some GP40's but all of them blew up or were in worse shape than the 300's, and have been sent back to Waycross.
I have been a Rail fan for the past 30 years. I remember me and my father going to the South Deerfield Yard when I was a kid and a teenager. This was back in 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 and so on me and my dad have so many Great memories of Pam Am Railroad me and my DAD Absolutely Loved the Old Classic Power. They had a few GP9 on their Roster and alot of GP40s GP38s SD40s SD45s GP38s High Hoods you should of been there in the early 90s I will never forget PAM AM Railroad it's memories of me and my dad chasing them up the Mohawk Trail To shelburne falls Massachusetts I have alot of video of use chasing a lot of old Is classic power. I would love to see you do another video to see If there's any pam am original units left on c s x's engine roster
Locomotives that are still on ST roster that are still labeled MEC BM or B&M are
MEC 007
MEC 305
MEC 306 out of service
MEC 307
MEC 310
MEC 313
MEC 315
MEC 316
MEC 319 out of service
MEC 321 out of service
BM 326 out of service
B&M 330 out of service
MEC 345
MEC 350
MEC 351 out of service
MEC 353 out of service
MEC 354 out of service
MEC 381
MEC 383
MEC 501
MEC 502
MEC 503
MEC 504
MEC 505
MEC 506
MEC 507 (Guilford heritage)
MEC 509
MEC 510
MEC 511 out of service
MEC 512
MEC 514
MEC 515
MEC 516
MEC 517
MEC 518
MEC 7534 out of service
MEC 7542
MEC 7552
MEC 7561 out of service
MEC 7575
MEC 7585 out of service
MEC 7594
MEC 7595
MEC 7605
MEC 7609
MEC 7620
MEC 7622
MEC 7643
MEC 5933
MEC 5948
MEC 5956 out of service
MEC 5958
MEC 5963
MEC 5966
MEC 5968 out of service
MEC 5972
MEC 5973 out of service
MEC 5976
On lease to the B&E are
MEC 502 313 316 345 350 381 3400 3401 3402 3403 3404
GEs that were split and given to the B&E are the following. Some if not all now say BERX instead of MEC
C40-8s
BERX 7489
MEC 7517
BERX 7518
BERX 7523
MEC 7528
BERX 7535
BERX 7541
BERX 7635
B40-8s
MEC 5930
BERX 5936
BERX 5943
BERX 5946
BERX 5967
BERX 5974
C40-8Ws
BERX 7727
BERX 7875
MEC 7797
MEC 7655
MEC 7898
MEC 7835
SD40M-2 MEC 3405
Slug set GMTX 5000/5001
Very cool; your first shot in Rigby Yard has a Pan Am freshly painted and a Wisconsin Central boxcar right behind it !! I find it is always sad to see a short line or regional disappear as they are usually more interesting than the Class 1's and have quite different and varied fleets. Good coverage Harrison.
That value and variety is the only reason I’m sad to see Pan Am go. Operationally, they were terrible!
@@NorthCountryTrains yeah their trains were so slow.
I had a studio in Holyoke overlooking Guilford's Connecticut River line in the late 2000s...10 mph and no passing track. No Amtrak and little freight, except Sullivan scrap metal. Once a week we had EDPL crawl through southbound and on the way north again would back into the Sullivan spur and pick up loads. And back and forth forever. Once PLED stalled after adding a cut of scrap gons...that was fun. They never had M.U. on these trips. And then Pan Am and I would wait to see a blue dip.
Sweet stuff, have a Great weekend! (Dave).
Surprisingly a lot of C40-8s have been leading M426 and M427 recently to and from portland, and I hope i can catch some of the dash 8s before csx repaints the ones their keeping and ones not being kept, and i feel the same about pan am just like you harrison, and i loved pan am and Guilford, but hated the fact that they never moved enough traffic and maintenance upkeep was bad or far to none, and im glad in the end at least pan am/guilford made a profit
Ive Seen my fair share of pan am units.. even my parents and freinds have seen their units
Best Catch was an All GE 4 C40-8 POED back in 2017 in old orchard, 7627 leading which is now CSXT 9280 (ironically the best catch) and PLED and EDPL 2 weeknights in a row in northampton with MEC 353 an ex conrail/CSX Geep, theres others here and there, but those are my favorites
Pan Am Railways
2001-2023
You May Be Gone, But Never Missed
Sadly i never saw pan ams ocs but if csx is rumored to maybe use it or keep the engines. Then eventually i might venture to waycross to see them, but im content so far with what pan am trains and power I’ve seen, plus many pan am and guilford boxcars
12:43 i like the colors on that locomotive.
Excellent photojournalist as usual
You saw; documented; and moved on
Awesome production!
Wonderful video! Enjoyed!🙂🙂
"Brighter future for New England railroading." Please feel free to compare tariff rates under CSX precision scheduled railroading with previous rates.
Feel free to interview farmers from the Midwest what their experiences have been with PSR including add on fees.I believe both answers will be an argument for the newly passed, and likely signed reciprocal switching law. 🚂
Dang i remenber they had the coolest 747 livery in my opnion
Certainly no great loss GTI G ST GRS Pan Am, one so called fallen flag I will never miss. Sewer hole of a so called railroad...
You are so right
Mellen hurt and continues to hurt so many good Americans
Maybe he is another one of Putin’s agents?
Great production as always!
Those railfans in the dome car might have been my friends and I lol
Did you ride the Downeaster to Portland and back in September 2017? If so, you are likely one of the railfans I saw!
I rode the dome in 2017 and 2018, both times with friends I believe
Cool
0:51 Yeah, that wasn’t Guilford’s finest hour. Certainly soiled their reputation. New York, Susquehanna, & Western had to become Delaware & Hudson’s designated operator by court order, until the latter was purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1991.
Love your opener:
They bankrupted my D&H
Didn't do the B&M and Mec much good. Although I am sure some will debate and I don't don't particularly care.
Good history and video. Not a fan of G&W. They are the only holding company I am aware that will not let small railroads they purchase keep their unique identity. “Locomotives become pumpkin orange”
True, I also am not a fan of G&W as they’ve robbed all of our colorful New England railroads of their identity, but in the case of Pan Am I don’t mind as most of their engines were poorly-patched junkers anyway.
Being Honest, I agree. I was quite unhappy when I heard that G&W would be the operator of the Berkshire and Eastern. Their paint scheme is nice, but it's on the locomotives of practically every short line in the country. I'm really getting tired of it.
I agree. I mean, G&W is a cool railroad company, but since I live in Connecticut, there are tons of shortline railroads with G&W trains. Pan Am also runs in Connecticut, the central of the state. And when I heard that Pan Am is going away, they were gonna have a G&W railroad take over, which I'm getting tired of seeing those things. I Never seen or heard foreign power, but leasers on these shortline trains in this state. There is CSX, but they mostly sit in the Cedar Hill Yard.
They were always easy for me to STILL PHOTOGRAPH
Because you never had to travel far to find one TIED DOWN
Very true 😂
a positive:
they were slightly better than mma
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Pan Am Southern didn't go anywhere.. B&E owns nothing. They are contracted to supply some resources to run the PAS trains. Otherwise great video 😁
Pinky!!!!! 7595
Guilford Transportation did not bankrupt the D&H. This is bunk. The D&H was a continuous bankrupt railroad since the early 1970s. The D&H was a state subsidized fribulating corpse. Nothing else. GTI picked up the property for $600,000 assumption of lots of red ink.
The concept was GTI purchase of Conrail and a better post bankrupt position for the D&H. 🛤️
Now that I’ve thoroughly studied the history of the railroad I know this, but several years ago, the time I referenced in this video, I didn’t know about the continued loss of revenue and just assumed it was all Guilford
Yeah, but instead the Canadians bought the D&H which forever cursed our railroad industry with their monopoly.
Once GTI got Conrail, the D&H probably still would have been dumped.