PAR On The B&A
I didn't get out for the final run of the Pan Am OCS in Maine behind the Fs before CSXT took over on June 1. So oddly enough I guess this was my final shot of a Pan Am F unit...albeit being towed around and on the former Boston and Albany of all places!
After being on display for about four hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ it is time to head back to Boston. To the delight of fans PAR1 was placed on the rear behind MBTA 1074 and 3248 with her headlight on dim as a marker for the return trip east over the MBTA/Keolis Worcester mainline. She is seen here in a going away view on Main 1 at about MP 24.2 just after passing the old Richardsonian style station just out of sight to the right
PAR1 is a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505 and passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 along with sister unit 6515 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains the pair would become PAR 1 and 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
Leading the odd move is 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009 and now sandwiched in the middle is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
Ashland, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022
PAR On The B&A
I didn't get out for the final run of the Pan Am OCS in Maine behind the Fs before CSXT took over on June 1. So oddly enough I guess this was my final shot of a Pan Am F unit...albeit being towed around and on the former Boston and Albany of all places!
After being on display for about four hours in the Keolis/MBTA Worcester layover yard for the New England Railroad Club's annual Railtech Conference: www.nerailroadclub.com/about-us/ it is time to head back to Boston. To the delight of fans PAR1 was placed on the rear behind MBTA 1074 and 3248 with her headlight on dim as a marker for the return trip east over the MBTA/Keolis Worcester mainline. She is seen here in a going away view on Main 1 at about MP 24.2 just after passing the old Richardsonian style station just out of sight to the right
PAR1 is a GMDD FP9A blt. Sep. 1954 as CN 6505 and passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 along with sister unit 6515 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains the pair would become PAR 1 and 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
Leading the odd move is 3248 a National Railway Equipment 3GS21B 'genset' locomotive blt. Mar. 2009 and now sandwiched in the middle is 1074 an F40PH-3C recently rebuilt by Wabtec from an original Morrison-Knudsen F40PHM-2C blt. Apr. 1988.
Ashland, Massachusetts
Thursday March 31, 2022