With a skeleton crew working Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's train board, the single crewman mentality had reached nearly every part of the system by the end of 2011. The Searsport Branch was no exc... (more)

2011 had already proven to be a great year to be a fan of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's Searsport Branch. Additional Saturday morning runs of #211 from Hermon gave normally working folks a chance ... (more)

Having picked up a second batch of power at Derby for the evening run of #1 to Megantic, QC, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's #202 would continue to Brownville Junction before tieing down on September... (more)

Fortunately for January 19, 2013, Pan Am's District 1 activity was not represented by the overcast weather conditions that plagued much of the month. Seen from above the mainline at Route 202 in ... (more)

Before anybody imagined a derailment in Mattawamkeag putting an end to Bakken crude trains through Maine, one such empty was heading back West under an overcast sky on February 23, 2013. From the... (more)

Pan Am's GP9s had been taken off most assignments around Waterville, Maine by the time of Christmas 2011. Occasionally, one would work in Waterville yard, but not normally beyond the limits. Two... (more)

Nearly a year to the day following a hall-of-fame pursuit of GP9 52 in its Maine Central-inspired colors, the Holiday season of 2012 brought another uncommon visitor to Pan Am's Hinckley Branch. ... (more)

Back before Northern Maine Junction was closed as a "station" for Pan Am, a local was based there that would switch local businesses and make runs to Old Town, Maine. Returning from one such trip... (more)

With it's work already done a while before, it was now kick-back time for Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's #211 on December 3, 2011. The sun was dropping fast behind Mosquito Mountain in Prospect, Ma... (more)

A moody last day of May, 2009 had begun over in Hinckley with a chase of SAPPI and its batch of GP9s. That afternoon, MD-1 would also run out of Waterville, Maine up the Madison branch to the mil... (more)

Pan Am Railway's movements of Bakken crude oil through Maine really changed the face of everyday patterns after 2013 began. While CSX and BNSF power had already been seen as far East as Watervill... (more)

Until just a couple years prior, GP9s were not uncommon on local jobs in and around Waterville, Maine. Pan Am liked to keep them close to the "home" yard, and most had been sidelined or stored by... (more)

A morning chase of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's #211 on February 20, 2014 had begun on the opposite side of this very bridge over Marsh Stream in Winterport, Maine. Afternoon had arrived, but bea... (more)

Having been a quiet day in the area of Northern Maine Junction, a beautiful Saturday in December 2013 was finally salvaged when SJWA was re-crewed West of us in Pittsfield, Maine. Quickly interce... (more)

Keeping to its normal 10:00am Sunday departure time, Pan Am's BKWA leisurely headed North toward Brewer and Calais Junction during peak foliage in mid-October 2013. Rolling past quiet neighbors a... (more)