Splitting The Searchlights
After meeting eastbound intermodal train B100 here Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO is pulling through the searchlights off Main 1 onto the single track at CPF415 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Just behind me they will cross the Deerfield River and enter the town of Florida before crossing River Road then plunging into 4.75 miles of darkness through the Hoosac Tunnel.
This train originated in Ayer as train SAED and will turn into Norfolk Southern train 11R at Mechanicville for continuation down the old Delaware and Hudson to East Binghamton Yard. Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which was created to serve as the neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a condition of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX in 2022. The train is led by a rebuilt GE AC44C6M which is a bit unusual as most thru trains feature homely EMD rebuilt SD60Es due to the fact they are equipped with ACSES for operation on the MBTA property east of Westminster to the end of B&E's territory in Ayer. Trailing is BERX C40-8W 7879 in it's Genesee and Wyoming heritage scheme.
Rowe, Massachusetts
August 31, 2025
Splitting The Searchlights
After meeting eastbound intermodal train B100 here Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO is pulling through the searchlights off Main 1 onto the single track at CPF415 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Just behind me they will cross the Deerfield River and enter the town of Florida before crossing River Road then plunging into 4.75 miles of darkness through the Hoosac Tunnel.
This train originated in Ayer as train SAED and will turn into Norfolk Southern train 11R at Mechanicville for continuation down the old Delaware and Hudson to East Binghamton Yard. Berkshire and Eastern is a Genesee and Wyoming owned company which was created to serve as the neutral third party operator of the former Pan Am Southern property as a condition of the sale of Pan Am Railways to CSX in 2022. The train is led by a rebuilt GE AC44C6M which is a bit unusual as most thru trains feature homely EMD rebuilt SD60Es due to the fact they are equipped with ACSES for operation on the MBTA property east of Westminster to the end of B&E's territory in Ayer. Trailing is BERX C40-8W 7879 in it's Genesee and Wyoming heritage scheme.
Rowe, Massachusetts
August 31, 2025