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Title: |
North Star arrives |
Description: |
The layoveq point for the North Star trip was Madawaska. We see the train arriving at the BAR station after doing its move out onto the bridge from Van Buren to St Leonard. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/8/2015 3:40:36 AM |
Location: |
Madawaska, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
600 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rolling down the valley |
Description: |
The North Star trip rolls down the St John River valley in a brief thunderstorm, the only weather that marred an othewise stunning day. It will shortly tie up in Madawaska. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/10/2015 4:05:41 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,InCab,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
478 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Drumhead |
Description: |
The drumhead for the 470 club trip on the BAR over Memorial Day weekend 1988 at the end of the line for Saturdays ride to Madawaska |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 9/9/2013 1:22:08 AM |
Location: |
Madawaska, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
497 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
On the international bridge |
Description: |
The North Star trip got every inch of mileage it could on the trip to Madawaska. We see it here backing out onto the bridge over the St John River, which divides Maine from New Brunswick. Thats US 1, and beyond is the line that once went down to Easton. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:12:45 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
612 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Backing out |
Description: |
The North Star trip backs out onto the line to the international bridge. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:15:38 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
405 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Past the tower |
Description: |
The North Star trip passes the tower that once controlled the junction to the international bridge as it sets up to back up toward the bridge and the Canadian border. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:18:00 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
421 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Fields of gold |
Description: |
The BAR North Star trip rolls past a field of dandelions as it makes its way back to Madawaska after running up the international bridge at St Leonard. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:35:27 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
485 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old tower |
Description: |
The 470 Club North Star trip rolls past the tower at Brownville Jct on the BAR. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 1:38:55 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
612 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Day is done |
Description: |
The North Star trip, having completed its move on the bridge at Van Buren, now reaches the end of its day at Madawaska, which has a substantial office building in the yard. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:30:34 AM |
Location: |
Madawaska, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
434 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Off the bridge, headed for tie up |
Description: |
The North Star excursion is off the bridge at Van Buren and headed to Madawaska to tie up. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:38:56 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
397 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Meeting freight power |
Description: |
The North Star trip passes the yard at Squa Pan, passing a pair of GP 38s that will power the train based here after the holiday. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:40:15 AM |
Location: |
Squa Pan, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) BAR 94(GP38) BAR 91(GP38) |
Views: |
650 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
At the station |
Description: |
The BAR had a few good looking stations for a road that had not run a passenger train in years. The North Star trip pauses at one of them, in Fort Kent. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:42:00 AM |
Location: |
Fort Kent, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
404 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
On the lake |
Description: |
The North Star trip roll along the Eagle Lake. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:46:04 AM |
Location: |
Eagle Lake, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
731 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Scenic ride |
Description: |
The North Star trip rolls along in Maine scenery near Masardis. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:47:40 AM |
Location: |
Masardis, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
465 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Loading up |
Description: |
To save time and allow for a couple of photo stops, the North Star trip originated at Oakfield, about an hour north of Bangor. Here we see the train loading up, its riders getting off the bus that carried them from Bangor. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:49:32 AM |
Location: |
Oakfield, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
440 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Over the river |
Description: |
The North Star trip has just left Oakfield and crosses an unnamed river as it starts its long trip to Madawaska |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/13/2015 4:34:11 AM |
Location: |
Smyrna Mills, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
376 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing the office |
Description: |
The North Star trip passes the yard office at Squa Pan as it heads north. A local is based here on weekdays. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:50:44 AM |
Location: |
Squa Pan, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
457 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Snaking through the curve |
Description: |
The North Star trip rolls through a reverse curve as it heads to Madawaska to tie up for the night. |
Photo Date: |
5/28/1988 Upload Date: 3/10/2015 4:09:24 AM |
Location: |
Van Buren, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 76(GP9) BAR 70(GP7) |
Views: |
402 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Getting out |
Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Turn was one of a very few trains to run on Memorial Day weekend, so I was lucky to catch it. Here it is, just getting underway at the MEC yard-now signed for Springfield Terminal, note the sign on the office at left-with a trio of interesting units. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:00:49 AM |
Location: |
Bangor, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) BM 1741(GP9) |
Views: |
569 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
B&M on the Bucksport Turn |
Description: |
The Bucksport Turn ran Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, using a classic set of New England power. Here we see it with a blue B&M geep, and a pair of Harvest Gold MEC units, arriving at Bucksport. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:03:34 AM |
Location: |
Bucksport, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
Views: |
339 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling south |
Description: |
Now off the bridge from Bangor, the Turn gets moving toward Bucksport. Thats the railfan chase vehicle. It was a company car that I had on a 24/7 basis. They mostly didnt care where I took it, though I had to buy my own gas when on personal use. I lived ten miles from my job, and put 38,000 miles on it in a year. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:04:27 AM |
Location: |
Brewer, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
Views: |
476 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
On the bridge |
Description: |
The Bucksport Turn crosses the Penobscot River just after leaving the Bangor yard. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:07:00 AM |
Location: |
Brewer, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) BM 1709(GP9) |
Views: |
359 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
This is what I want in my back yard!! |
Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Job rolls past a home en route from Bangor to Bucksport on a Memorial Day weekend. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 2/25/2013 1:24:29 AM |
Location: |
Orrington, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
Views: |
443 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Local power |
Description: |
A pair of B&M geeps sits outisde the yard office at Bangor |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:09:27 AM |
Location: |
Bangor, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
BM 1728(GP9) BM 1741(GP9) |
Views: |
421 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Returning south |
Description: |
The North Star trip, now into its return to Bangor, rolls past St Froid Lake. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:19:47 AM |
Location: |
Quimby, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
415 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Slow bridge |
Description: |
The North Star trip crosses a bridge with a 15 MPH slow order. That helped the chase!! |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:23:02 AM |
Location: |
Ashland, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
554 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Past the station |
Description: |
Bangor & Aroostook didnt have many stations still standing, but the ones that were seemed to be in good shape. This one at Fort Kent looked pretty good for a road that had not had passenger service in several decades. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:24:43 AM |
Location: |
Fort Kent, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
492 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ready for planting |
Description: |
A potato field is plowed and ready for planting as the North Star trip gets rolling out of Madawaska. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:27:32 AM |
Location: |
Madawaska, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
406 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling south |
Description: |
The 470 Club trip rolls past a flowery scene as it makes its way back to Northern Maine Jct |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 1:40:42 AM |
Location: |
Squa Pan, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
499 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Pine trees |
Description: |
What better photo prop in Maine than pine trees?? The train passes a row of them near Portage. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:32:32 AM |
Location: |
Portage, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
By the pond |
Description: |
One of the first scenic locations coming out of Madawaska is Soldier Pond. Here we see the North Star on the bank. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:34:51 AM |
Location: |
Soldier Pond, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
340 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Past the station |
Description: |
The 470 Club trip passes the BAR station at Oakfield |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 1:42:40 AM |
Location: |
Oakfield, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
473 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Proud organizers |
Description: |
A group from the 470 Club, who organized the North Star trip, poses in front of the train at Oakfield. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 1:46:05 AM |
Location: |
Oakfield, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
489 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Crossing the river |
Description: |
The North Star trip crosses the Aroostook River at Sheridan on its southbound trip. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 1:49:58 AM |
Location: |
Sheridan, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BAR 70(GP7) BAR 76(GP9) |
Views: |
429 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Modern power |
Description: |
BAR was known for having some of the last F 3s and BL 2s on the continent. Here are a couple of more modern units at Northern Maine Jct. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:11:54 AM |
Location: |
Hermon, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
BAR 85(GP38) BAR 92(GP38) |
Views: |
552 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Road power |
Description: |
A pair of GP 38s sit out the Memorial Day Weekend at Northern Maine Jct. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:23:32 AM |
Location: |
Hermon, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
BAR 94(GP38) BAR 91(GP38) |
Views: |
830 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old snowplow |
Description: |
Northern Maine Jct was full of all kinds of equipment, such as this snowplow. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:25:14 AM |
Location: |
Hermon, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
746 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Bucksport job |
Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Job works south from Northern Maine Jct on Memorial Day weekend 1988 with a classic set of New England power. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 6/10/2012 1:51:47 AM |
Location: |
Orrington, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
Views: |
597 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Bucksport Turn |
Description: |
The MEC Bucksport Turn went to work on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend with a typically New England power set. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 9/10/2013 1:25:54 AM |
Location: |
Orrington, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
Views: |
456 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
One old, one not quite so old |
Description: |
Actually, the lead unit was a fairly recemt rebuild at the time. The trailing unit would soon be fodder for that program, updated an designate an RS 18u. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:28:07 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CP 8797(RS18) |
Views: |
565 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Alco in the weeds |
Description: |
CP parked this C424 off on a siding in the weeds at Brownville Jct. Who knows why?? |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:32:41 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CP 4229(C424) |
Views: |
345 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Big Alcos in Maine |
Description: |
CPs line across Maine to St John NB was home to Alco powered trains as long as CP had it. An M636 is evidence, seen here atBrownvilld Jct. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:38:42 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CP 4710(M636) |
Views: |
499 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Old style |
Description: |
An as built RS 18 sits in the Brownville Jct yard. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:40:06 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
CP 8797(RS18) |
Views: |
293 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
CP RDC |
Description: |
This CP car was one of the more unusual items sitting around at Brownville that day. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:44:05 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
CP 90(RDC1) |
Views: |
929 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Hannah Weston |
Description: |
The Bucksport Turn arrives at the yard to work, seen going away to highlight the unusual power, one of MECs U18Bs |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:05:19 AM |
Location: |
Bucksport, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
MEC 401(U18B) MEC 561(GP7) BM 1709(GP9) |
Views: |
432 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
North to the woods |
Description: |
This northbound has just worked Danville Jct, trading cars with the St Lawrence & Atlantic, and is now headed north with 85 cars. I didnt chase, as I was not familiar with the roads, and was just able to get this grab shot. |
Photo Date: |
5/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 1:59:25 AM |
Location: |
Danville Jct., ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
BM 368(GP39-2) DH 386(GP39-2) ST 645(SD26) BM 321(GP40) |
Views: |
801 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MMA on the bridge |
Description: |
A pair of MMA units work Brownsville Jct yard. |
Photo Date: |
9/3/2005 Upload Date: 11/11/2012 4:02:04 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
MMA 8560(B39-8E) MMA 100(GP7) |
Views: |
967 Comments: 2 |
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