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NMWA-25 gets back underway at Pittsfield, after picking up units from the wreck train and WA-3's power.
The day prior, the wreck train was supposed to combine with WA-3, which had tied down at Pittsfield on its return trip from Detroit. Things didn't pan out as GP40 334 was dead and 519 the other other unit on the wreck train, was blowing oil out the stack bad enough the crew had to stop several times enroute to clean the windows.
When they got to Pittsfield they were short on time, so they shuffled cars around on the siding. While doing so they found several of the plain bearings on the wreck train had overheated and the grain cars from Detroit, were heavily damaged from the unloading process. So they ended up tying down there.
The following day NMWA stopped to pick up the 4 units on the siding, running into town with the 509 and the 511 to grab the power. While doing so, 509 developed a radiator leak and lost its water and shut down. By that point NMWA was low on time and just grabbed the power and ran back to the train. Upon recrewing the train, the next crew found that they didn't have enough jumpers to tie the operational units together. So once again there was a wait while someone ran some up from Waterville.
Finally getting underway at dusk, the crew and five units, are seen creeping by the station which was undergoing restoration at the time.
Today just about every locomotive in this photo is scrapped, retired, sold, or stored.
Pan Am Railways
Train: NMWA-25
4/25/2019
Pittsfield, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
Count Them
NMWA-25 gets back underway at Pittsfield, after picking up units from the wreck train and WA-3's power.
The day prior, the wreck train was supposed to combine with WA-3, which had tied down at Pittsfield on its return trip from Detroit. Things didn't pan out as GP40 334 was dead and 519 the other other unit on the wreck train, was blowing oil out the stack bad enough the crew had to stop several times enroute to clean the windows.
When they got to Pittsfield they were short on time, so they shuffled cars around on the siding. While doing so they found several of the plain bearings on the wreck train had overheated and the grain cars from Detroit, were heavily damaged from the unloading process. So they ended up tying down there.
The following day NMWA stopped to pick up the 4 units on the siding, running into town with the 509 and the 511 to grab the power. While doing so, 509 developed a radiator leak and lost its water and shut down. By that point NMWA was low on time and just grabbed the power and ran back to the train. Upon recrewing the train, the next crew found that they didn't have enough jumpers to tie the operational units together. So once again there was a wait while someone ran some up from Waterville.
Finally getting underway at dusk, the crew and five units, are seen creeping by the station which was undergoing restoration at the time.
Today just about every locomotive in this photo is scrapped, retired, sold, or stored.
Pan Am Railways
Train: NMWA-25
4/25/2019
Pittsfield, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line