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Pan Am Railways Train WA-R smokes it up as they pass through the "Dirty Lew" on 1/16/2022.
At the time Pan Am was in the process of cleaning up several derailments around the network. In December of 2021 Sappi-3 stacked up about 15 cars on the Hinkley Branch, two of which the 175 ton road cranes couldn't rerail. The "repaired" section through the derailment site ultimately resulted in 4 more derailments over the following months. While it seemed like Pan Am had the intention of leaving those two loaded paper cars for CSX to clean up, not wanting to bring out the two wreck trains, a derailment in Saco caused by the crew of PO-3 running a derail for the second time in a week, resulted in several LPG cars flipping over.
Since those weighed too much for one of the road cranes to rerail, they brought out both the Waterville wreck set with the 200 ton Brownhoist crane and support cars and the East Deerfield wreck set with a 250 ton Brownhoist and two Cat 583H pipelayers.
In the end, the flatcar the exB&M pipelayer rode on and its support car got kicked out at North Chelmsford, after one of the friction bearing trucks overheated. As a result, the wreck crews had to use just the cranes to rerail the cars, normally only doing one per day.
Since the train was already in Maine, the decision was made to send it to the Hinkley Branch to recover the two paper cars.
So on the morning of 1/16/2022 the train was supposed to depart Rigby before sunrise, to get into position at the derailment site in Hinkley.
Well, per the usual train WAPO lost enough of its units, that it died in Portland blocking the busy Forest Ave. With no available power or crews, the train had to block the single track main until a maintainer got enough of the units going to get the train to Rigby. By that point the original crew had timed out and it was some time before a yard crew could be freed up to come and drag the train into Rigby.
Several Downeasters piled up waiting for the traffic jam to clear as well. This resulted in the wreck train finally getting out after lunch.
Things wouldn't be smooth sailing, in Cumberland Center the leader MEC B40-8 5973 sprung a coolant leak and ran out of water, before shutting down. Not long after taking the Backroad at Royal Jct the train had to stop due to sticking brakes. There were several more stops at New Glouster and Danville Jct before the issue was finally resolved. By the time they were rolling across the L/A bridge light was quickly fading.
Due to traffic I got behind them at Leeds Jct and didn't pick them up again until Readfield (despite the 20 MPH restriction for plain bearing cars I think they were going faster). By that point all the light was shot.
The train would rerail the two cars over the following days before the Waterville set was left at Waterville, while the ED set languished at Yard 8 in Portland for a few months before returning to East Deerfield prior to the takeover.
Since then the equipment has been scattered. The 470 Club got the Waterville baggage car and idler flat, the rigging car, the MEC dozer rigging car, B&M wheel car and the exMEC flatcar. The Railroad Museum of New England got the exB&M troop sleeper and the exB&M caboose that was welded to a flatcar. The Batten Kill and the SC&H got the other flat car, the ED baggage car, the exB&M flatcar and the 250 ton crane and idler, however I think they have since passed up the the latter two. I believe the Waterville dining car is still up for grabs, while the 200 ton crane despite being donated to the 470 Club, was sold to a buyer out of PA. The two Cat 583H's were sold to a company in the MA area which does work for CSX and a few other railroads.
The loss of the Pan Am wreck train was truly the end of an era for railroading in North America. The retirement of the train under CSX marked the end of the wreck train, something which had been used by railroads to clean up wrecks for over 100 years. It is worth noting a few railroads still retain a few cranes, however to my knowledge, none still employ a dedicated train and I haven't heard of any cranes being used in the modern era.
Pan Am Railway
Train: WA-R
1/16/2022
Lewiston, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
And heck I didn't even dirty a plate :-)
(I actually used a different pan to cook, but you get the idea)
I don't have a proper kitchen, no stove or oven so I cook using a hotplate, microwave and a slowcooker this really makes cooking interesting to say the least:-)
You can't really see the food but it's two chicken thighs, onions and green beans ( I pre-steamed the green beans in the microwave, then added to the pan in the last couple of minutes to add a little chicken flavoricious)
I'll put the (really simple) photo set-up in the comments.
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One of many rural gravel roads this Union Pacific stack train will cross on its way westward across the country, this one happens to be the last grade crossing in Iowa before the tracks climb to the Missouri River bridge into Blair, Nebraska.
Time exposure shows eight ticks per second on the sweeping second hand on my watch. 28,800 per hour...252,288,000 per year. hard to think of some mechanism acting 250M time a year on your wrist...
This is full res...I am going to post a crop later today.
One Legged Seagull at Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier in Long Beach, California.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 532/16
Lens: Zeiss Tessar 8cm, f/1.28
Film: Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros II
Developer: Beerenol (Rainier Beer), 20 minutes
last week was our one year anniversary.
a little over a year ago i ran into kevin at lunch and he came over and gave me a hug because we hadnt seen each other in about a year. we decided we would catch up one weekend and we exchanged phone numbers and i ended up joking around about how i used to have the biggest crush on him when i was in the 8th grade. and he told me he had liked me since we met and that he never knew how i felt. funny because i would write him endless amounts of notes to shove into his locker and id bring him food and always told him how cute he was( boys... go figure). me being the little spicey brat i am, told him he didnt have the balls to kiss me so next day we met in the stairwell and BAM . as we pulled away from our first kiss i saw that he was smiling and i realized i was smiling too. we kind of stared at eachother and just smiled. all goofy and smitten. over the next few weeks we would sneek into the gym stairwell between classes and kiss till the bell rung. on day right after school ened he walked me to my locker and i went in for a hug goodbye( we hadnt publicly shown our affection twards eachother) and he kissed me on the lips for everyone to see. i saw 3 people do a double take and another guy said "oh yeah!" i was smiling so big my face hurt. only a few short days after that while sitting on my couch i wrote "i like you" on his had and he wrote "i like you most" he asked me to be his girlfriend on October 15 2011.
here we are a year and a week later still all butterflies and fire works when we kiss. i love him to death and im happy that after 2 years hes finally mine.. im glad ive finally found someone who makes me feel like this.
being in love is so awesome. I love being in love.
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Out and about with cool moonlight and flying sparks and Chris Renfro. It's getting to be that time of year when I can have a good evening of light painting in the mountains and still get home in time for few hours of sleep before my two-year-old wants to get up and play.
She just informed me that I have two minutes before we need to go to the bakery where she can have a muffin and I can get the coffee I desperately need this morning. Good times.
Yes it was one year ago today.. I would like to dedicate this to the Paramedics/Ambulance crew.. who saved my life.. the Surgeon & assistance who carried out the operation and the staff in the 'Cardiac Unit' of Torbay hospital.. for the after care.. THANK YOU
Another December bloom.. Thanks to all who leave comments..
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- Something else; This is a parking spot for your bicycle near the station. A 180dg panorama shot... I think there are like 10.000 bicycles in a square 250mtrs... so what you see is nothing, just one layer of bikes on the left ;)
*Pano stitched as JPG by the camera itself
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Let's remember Neil Armstrong who passed away today, 25th August. His small step will live forever as one of our greatest and most memorable achievements.
Veolia operate this late model dual-control Iveco Acco 6x4 with Superior Pak equipment on behalf of Ku-ring-gai Council.
It's seen here as it speedily empties the wheelie bins in one of the leafy streets of South Turramurra, NSW.
Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Pynes Hill, Ludwell Valley Park, Exeter, Devon, England.
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