410 Miles From Mattawamkeag
In days of old the granite milepost would have read 130 as measured from Boston according to a 1947 Boston and Maine employee timetable I referenced. But Guilford Transportation (predecessor in name only to Pan Am Railways) saw fit to change all the mileposts on their combined Maine Central, Boston and Maine, and Delaware and Hudson (for four years) system and rename it as one contiguous Freight Main. Hence mile zero was the east end end of the line at Mattawamkeag, Maine. So while unlike the storied airway of yore Pan Am Railways decidedly does NOT 'Span The Globe' but it does span from the key points on that globe known as Mattawamkeag and Rotterdam (no not that actually important Rotterdam...the other one in New York!)
Anyway, here is local freight AD-1 headed from North Adams to East Deerfield with 17 cars trailing an SD40-2/B40-8 duo.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
Friday May 28, 2021
410 Miles From Mattawamkeag
In days of old the granite milepost would have read 130 as measured from Boston according to a 1947 Boston and Maine employee timetable I referenced. But Guilford Transportation (predecessor in name only to Pan Am Railways) saw fit to change all the mileposts on their combined Maine Central, Boston and Maine, and Delaware and Hudson (for four years) system and rename it as one contiguous Freight Main. Hence mile zero was the east end end of the line at Mattawamkeag, Maine. So while unlike the storied airway of yore Pan Am Railways decidedly does NOT 'Span The Globe' but it does span from the key points on that globe known as Mattawamkeag and Rotterdam (no not that actually important Rotterdam...the other one in New York!)
Anyway, here is local freight AD-1 headed from North Adams to East Deerfield with 17 cars trailing an SD40-2/B40-8 duo.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
Friday May 28, 2021