02/20/2010 Pan Am Railways with UP, NS, P&W, MBTA and Guilford power

Headed out for an afternoon of railfanning and between 12:30 and 5:00 caught the Bow coal train in Nashua NH with Norfolk Southern run through power. Then off to Gardner, MA and got the Pan Am Southern autorack/intermodal train AYMO (Ayer to Mohawk) with UP run through power. Then following 20 minutes later POED (Portland to East Deerfield) with Guilford power, a GP40-2w and a high nose GP-40. The headed to Ayer, MA and got AY-5 (Ayer switcher) and a MBTA commuter train at The Willows. Then finally got PWBO (Providence and Worcester to Bow) coal train with an A-A-B-B-A GE lashup snaking through the interlocking where the MBTA fitchburg main and the Pan Am main meet. Only on Pan Am/Guilford can you catch such a diversity of power in 5 hours!!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Pan Am Railways
• Union Pacific
• Norfolk Southern
• Providence and Worcester
• MBTA
• Guilford
• Ayer
• AYMO
• UP. NS
• P&W
• Guilford Rail System

[cu29640]

Why spend on CTC when your trains move 15 mph? CSX runs some dark lines with 25 trains a day at 50MPH

[SignalHillProds]

Union Pacific power on Pan Am rails? That's awesome!

[sd45el]

great vid, what kind of camera do you have? Did you use a tri-pod also? thanks

[pacirr]

@cu29640  all the signals shown here are active CTC; you'll notice at 1:50 and 2:55 the signals light up when the train enters the block

[cu29640]

Is this under CTC? or are those signals dead?

[RITRAINMAN]

Great Video i'm a P&W fan and enjoyed the ENTIRE video

[as97ir]

WOHA 1 of da engins is named B787 !! Boeing 787-8 !!

[as97ir]

huh soo sad PAN AM was an airline and got bankrupted ..

[conrailforever1999]

how many trains run a day on pam am

[trainzrule5]

Thats AWESOME! Those are all the types of trains I see! But 2 coal trains in 5 hours? That is cool!