Slithering Out
For Monochrome Monday here's another take on this railroad train focusing on the train instead of the power. There's just something fascinating about watching these and seeing someone that we perceive as so immovable and rigid to flex like so much cooked spaghetti....ah the wonders of physics and chemistry.
Looking down off rhe US Route 1 overpass above CPF 199, a CSXT/Pan Am Rigby yard crew is pulling a loaded welded rail train out of track 6 at the east end of Rigby Yard. The train had arrived here after coming up on M426 from Worcester and would continue east on the rear of that manifest to Waterville the next morning. It is ultimately destined for the track upgrades going on between Northern Maine Junction and Mattawamkeag as CSXT rebuilds the old Maine Central mainline they purchased last year.
Needing to turn the train to orient it properly for unloading they ran a couple miles east up District 1 to CPF 197 where they pulled down the Yard 8 lead. They then shoved back out the mainline through the crossovers at CPF 196 and brought the train back here.
South Portland, Maine
Saturday February 18, 2023
Slithering Out
For Monochrome Monday here's another take on this railroad train focusing on the train instead of the power. There's just something fascinating about watching these and seeing someone that we perceive as so immovable and rigid to flex like so much cooked spaghetti....ah the wonders of physics and chemistry.
Looking down off rhe US Route 1 overpass above CPF 199, a CSXT/Pan Am Rigby yard crew is pulling a loaded welded rail train out of track 6 at the east end of Rigby Yard. The train had arrived here after coming up on M426 from Worcester and would continue east on the rear of that manifest to Waterville the next morning. It is ultimately destined for the track upgrades going on between Northern Maine Junction and Mattawamkeag as CSXT rebuilds the old Maine Central mainline they purchased last year.
Needing to turn the train to orient it properly for unloading they ran a couple miles east up District 1 to CPF 197 where they pulled down the Yard 8 lead. They then shoved back out the mainline through the crossovers at CPF 196 and brought the train back here.
South Portland, Maine
Saturday February 18, 2023