Pan Am Railways, Remembered

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10 ай бұрын

Pan Am Railways, also known as Guilford Rail System (GTI) or Springfield Terminal (ST) is a railroad many love to hate. Most of my Pan Am memories center around southern Maine, but I've encountered the regional railroad everywhere from Rotterdam, NY to Waterville, ME. East Deerfield, Rigby, and many other iconic locations are shown.
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@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

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@DH2906PRODUCTIONS 9 ай бұрын

As much as I don't like Guilford. I am going to miss those blue and white deisels coming through on the Massachusetts trains. I'm glad we were both able to document them

@CamsTrains2014 3 ай бұрын

The EX csx

@haroldalexis4200 10 ай бұрын

Very nice video. Good narration. 👍🎥

@Steve-xf4uv 10 ай бұрын

Very cool; your first shot in Rigby Yard has a Pan Am freshly painted and a Wisconsin Central boxcar right behind it !! I find it is always sad to see a short line or regional disappear as they are usually more interesting than the Class 1's and have quite different and varied fleets. Good coverage Harrison.

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

That value and variety is the only reason I’m sad to see Pan Am go. Operationally, they were terrible!

@Maine_Railfan 10 ай бұрын

Nice tribute, at 8:19 thats a good friend of mine, Leo Corriveau. He retired a few months later. He started off on the Bangor and Aroostook before going to the Saint Lawerence and Atlantic, then to Guilford, and finally Pan Am.

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

Very cool! Hope he enjoys his retirement!

@Maine_Railfan 10 ай бұрын

Also 2548 is the only CSX geep up here. They tried some GP40's but all of them blew up or were in worse shape than the 300's, and have been sent back to Waycross.

@paulnorman3709 4 күн бұрын

Pan Am used to have "flying stock" rather then rolling stock. I miss Pan Am Airways.

@garyhallgren 10 ай бұрын

I had a studio in Holyoke overlooking Guilford's Connecticut River line in the late 2000s...10 mph and no passing track. No Amtrak and little freight, except Sullivan scrap metal. Once a week we had EDPL crawl through southbound and on the way north again would back into the Sullivan spur and pick up loads. And back and forth forever. Once PLED stalled after adding a cut of scrap gons...that was fun. They never had M.U. on these trips. And then Pan Am and I would wait to see a blue dip.

@MillersRailfan 10 ай бұрын

Excellent photojournalist as usual You saw; documented; and moved on

@johnrockstone 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful video! Enjoyed!🙂🙂

@GMCGUY- 9 ай бұрын

I have been a Rail fan for the past 30 years. I remember me and my father going to the South Deerfield Yard when I was a kid and a teenager. This was back in 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 and so on me and my dad have so many Great memories of Pam Am Railroad me and my DAD Absolutely Loved the Old Classic Power. They had a few GP9 on their Roster and alot of GP40s GP38s SD40s SD45s GP38s High Hoods you should of been there in the early 90s I will never forget PAM AM Railroad it's memories of me and my dad chasing them up the Mohawk Trail To shelburne falls Massachusetts I have alot of video of use chasing a lot of old Is classic power. I would love to see you do another video to see If there's any pam am original units left on c s x's engine roster

@16thavestudios19 8 ай бұрын

Locomotives that are still on ST roster that are still labeled MEC BM or B&M are MEC 007 MEC 305 MEC 306 out of service MEC 307 MEC 310 MEC 313 MEC 315 MEC 316 MEC 319 out of service MEC 321 out of service BM 326 out of service B&M 330 out of service MEC 345 MEC 350 MEC 351 out of service MEC 353 out of service MEC 354 out of service MEC 381 MEC 383 MEC 501 MEC 502 MEC 503 MEC 504 MEC 505 MEC 506 MEC 507 (Guilford heritage) MEC 509 MEC 510 MEC 511 out of service MEC 512 MEC 514 MEC 515 MEC 516 MEC 517 MEC 518 MEC 7534 out of service MEC 7542 MEC 7552 MEC 7561 out of service MEC 7575 MEC 7585 out of service MEC 7594 MEC 7595 MEC 7605 MEC 7609 MEC 7620 MEC 7622 MEC 7643 MEC 5933 MEC 5948 MEC 5956 out of service MEC 5958 MEC 5963 MEC 5966 MEC 5968 out of service MEC 5972 MEC 5973 out of service MEC 5976 On lease to the B&E are MEC 502 313 316 345 350 381 3400 3401 3402 3403 3404 GEs that were split and given to the B&E are the following. Some if not all now say BERX instead of MEC C40-8s BERX 7489 MEC 7517 BERX 7518 BERX 7523 MEC 7528 BERX 7535 BERX 7541 BERX 7635 B40-8s MEC 5930 BERX 5936 BERX 5943 BERX 5946 BERX 5967 BERX 5974 C40-8Ws BERX 7727 BERX 7875 MEC 7797 MEC 7655 MEC 7898 MEC 7835 SD40M-2 MEC 3405 Slug set GMTX 5000/5001

@northpennvalleysteamrailroad 10 ай бұрын

Awesome production!

@NERRP2017 10 ай бұрын

Surprisingly a lot of C40-8s have been leading M426 and M427 recently to and from portland, and I hope i can catch some of the dash 8s before csx repaints the ones their keeping and ones not being kept, and i feel the same about pan am just like you harrison, and i loved pan am and Guilford, but hated the fact that they never moved enough traffic and maintenance upkeep was bad or far to none, and im glad in the end at least pan am/guilford made a profit Ive Seen my fair share of pan am units.. even my parents and freinds have seen their units Best Catch was an All GE 4 C40-8 POED back in 2017 in old orchard, 7627 leading which is now CSXT 9280 (ironically the best catch) and PLED and EDPL 2 weeknights in a row in northampton with MEC 353 an ex conrail/CSX Geep, theres others here and there, but those are my favorites Pan Am Railways 2001-2023 You May Be Gone, But Never Missed Sadly i never saw pan ams ocs but if csx is rumored to maybe use it or keep the engines. Then eventually i might venture to waycross to see them, but im content so far with what pan am trains and power I’ve seen, plus many pan am and guilford boxcars

@jeffreyaumand6447 3 ай бұрын

Certainly no great loss GTI G ST GRS Pan Am, one so called fallen flag I will never miss. Sewer hole of a so called railroad...

@MillersRailfan 3 ай бұрын

You are so right Mellen hurt and continues to hurt so many good Americans Maybe he is another one of Putin’s agents?

@waysiderailfan 10 ай бұрын

Great production as always!

@Dc10_30_da_american_airlines 5 ай бұрын

Dang i remenber they had the coolest 747 livery in my opnion

@StormySkyRailProductions 10 ай бұрын

Sweet stuff, have a Great weekend! (Dave).

@stevenconnolly7907 10 ай бұрын

"Brighter future for New England railroading." Please feel free to compare tariff rates under CSX precision scheduled railroading with previous rates. Feel free to interview farmers from the Midwest what their experiences have been with PSR including add on fees.I believe both answers will be an argument for the newly passed, and likely signed reciprocal switching law. 🚂

@Niroka07 10 ай бұрын

Cool

@Trublemaker_12 9 ай бұрын

Those railfans in the dome car might have been my friends and I lol

@NorthCountryTrains 9 ай бұрын

Did you ride the Downeaster to Portland and back in September 2017? If so, you are likely one of the railfans I saw!

@Trublemaker_12 9 ай бұрын

I rode the dome in 2017 and 2018, both times with friends I believe

@MillersRailfan 10 ай бұрын

They were always easy for me to STILL PHOTOGRAPH Because you never had to travel far to find one TIED DOWN

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

Very true 😂

@glenngrinter6818 10 ай бұрын

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@JosephMusgrove 10 ай бұрын

Good history and video. Not a fan of G&W. They are the only holding company I am aware that will not let small railroads they purchase keep their unique identity. “Locomotives become pumpkin orange”

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

True, I also am not a fan of G&W as they’ve robbed all of our colorful New England railroads of their identity, but in the case of Pan Am I don’t mind as most of their engines were poorly-patched junkers anyway.

@TrainsAreReallyCool 10 ай бұрын

Being Honest, I agree. I was quite unhappy when I heard that G&W would be the operator of the Berkshire and Eastern. Their paint scheme is nice, but it's on the locomotives of practically every short line in the country. I'm really getting tired of it.

@LiamFire17B-R-qz2xr 10 ай бұрын

I agree. I mean, G&W is a cool railroad company, but since I live in Connecticut, there are tons of shortline railroads with G&W trains. Pan Am also runs in Connecticut, the central of the state. And when I heard that Pan Am is going away, they were gonna have a G&W railroad take over, which I'm getting tired of seeing those things. I Never seen or heard foreign power, but leasers on these shortline trains in this state. There is CSX, but they mostly sit in the Cedar Hill Yard.

@MillersRailfan 10 ай бұрын

Love your opener: They bankrupted my D&H

@jeffreyaumand6447 3 ай бұрын

Didn't do the B&M and Mec much good. Although I am sure some will debate and I don't don't particularly care.

@MillersRailfan 10 ай бұрын

Pinky!!!!! 7595

@NorthernNewEnglandRailfan 10 ай бұрын

a positive: they were slightly better than mma

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@tropicalties3806 6 ай бұрын

Pan Am Southern didn't go anywhere.. B&E owns nothing. They are contracted to supply some resources to run the PAS trains. Otherwise great video 😁

@stevenconnolly7907 10 ай бұрын

Guilford Transportation did not bankrupt the D&H. This is bunk. The D&H was a continuous bankrupt railroad since the early 1970s. The D&H was a state subsidized fribulating corpse. Nothing else. GTI picked up the property for $600,000 assumption of lots of red ink. The concept was GTI purchase of Conrail and a better post bankrupt position for the D&H. 🛤️

@NorthCountryTrains 10 ай бұрын

Now that I’ve thoroughly studied the history of the railroad I know this, but several years ago, the time I referenced in this video, I didn’t know about the continued loss of revenue and just assumed it was all Guilford

@TrainsAreReallyCool 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, but instead the Canadians bought the D&H which forever cursed our railroad industry with their monopoly.

@Maine_Railfan 9 ай бұрын

Once GTI got Conrail, the D&H probably still would have been dumped.