Chapman Rail Photography
Empty Grain at the Willows
An Ex-CSX Dash-840C, now Pan Am Railways MEC 7528, with Pan Am's 3405 in tow, one of Pan Am's final SD45-2's remaining in their active roster.
Seen glistening in the crisp late-August evening, the two engines were tasked with taking this string of grain hoppers back to the BNSF railway who originates and terminates the rotation of this service. This train serves Ardent Mills with loaded grain, and then is taken back, as seen here.
On Pan Am territory, the BNSF power from the grain train is swapped with PAR power due to PTC compliances on certain parts of the Pan Am system where they share trackage with MBTA/Keolis, as the commuter service operates under a unique type of PTC/ACSES system. Long gone are the days of foreign, or quite frankly at all, interesting power to the Pan Am system...
Empty Grain at the Willows
An Ex-CSX Dash-840C, now Pan Am Railways MEC 7528, with Pan Am's 3405 in tow, one of Pan Am's final SD45-2's remaining in their active roster.
Seen glistening in the crisp late-August evening, the two engines were tasked with taking this string of grain hoppers back to the BNSF railway who originates and terminates the rotation of this service. This train serves Ardent Mills with loaded grain, and then is taken back, as seen here.
On Pan Am territory, the BNSF power from the grain train is swapped with PAR power due to PTC compliances on certain parts of the Pan Am system where they share trackage with MBTA/Keolis, as the commuter service operates under a unique type of PTC/ACSES system. Long gone are the days of foreign, or quite frankly at all, interesting power to the Pan Am system...