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Circus lashup
On Monday the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train made the trip from Worcester, Massachusetts to Manchester, New Hampshire over Pam Am Railways trackage for the last time. The red unit has upcoming shows in Manchester, Hartford and Providence before calling it quits for good next month after 146 years. For the occasion, Pan Am came up with an all blue EMD consist including FP9 #PAR1, SD40-2 #608, SD40-2 #614, GP40-2LW #503 and FP9 #PAR2. Unfortunately the light was very tough for the eastbound part of the journey, but still worth the trip. The real circus wasn't the train, but the huge number of chasers! The train is diverging from the B&M Fitchburg Route mainline (used primarily by MBTA commuter trains) onto the B&M Stony Brook Branch (Pan Am Freight Main) at the Willows aka CPF WL.
Ayer, Massachusetts
April 17, 2017
Circus lashup
On Monday the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train made the trip from Worcester, Massachusetts to Manchester, New Hampshire over Pam Am Railways trackage for the last time. The red unit has upcoming shows in Manchester, Hartford and Providence before calling it quits for good next month after 146 years. For the occasion, Pan Am came up with an all blue EMD consist including FP9 #PAR1, SD40-2 #608, SD40-2 #614, GP40-2LW #503 and FP9 #PAR2. Unfortunately the light was very tough for the eastbound part of the journey, but still worth the trip. The real circus wasn't the train, but the huge number of chasers! The train is diverging from the B&M Fitchburg Route mainline (used primarily by MBTA commuter trains) onto the B&M Stony Brook Branch (Pan Am Freight Main) at the Willows aka CPF WL.
Ayer, Massachusetts
April 17, 2017