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UTLX 5078 |
Description: |
UTLX 5078, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1. |
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2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:19:59 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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RollingStock |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ACPX 33762 |
Description: |
ACPX 33762, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:20:51 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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RollingStock |
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188 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
PROX 31583 |
Description: |
PROX 31583, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:23:01 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Track,Action |
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75 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UTLX 952606 |
Description: |
UTLX 952606, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:23:49 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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RollingStock |
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78 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
UTLX 952571 |
Description: |
UTLX 952571, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:22:22 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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84 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
EAMX 435 |
Description: |
EAMX 435, an empty for Sullivan Scrap on the Connecticut River Line, departs the Plainville Yard northbound on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
2/14/2009 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:55:55 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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112 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 352 leads train PL-1 through Berlin on a cloudy winter afternoon. The train is on its way to the Plainville Yard and has just entered Pan Am trackage after a sprint down Amtrak's Springfield Line. |
Photo Date: |
2/18/2009 Upload Date: 2/24/2011 12:15:27 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 352(GP40) |
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212 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First Time Ever |
Description: |
For the first time ever, two Pan Am-painted units work on Pan Am train PL-1. MEC 350 and MEC 352 do some switching in the Plainville Yard after switching AmeriGas on the Canal Line. |
Photo Date: |
2/20/2009 Upload Date: 2/22/2009 8:05:59 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40) |
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513 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 350 and MEC 352 lead train PL-1 toward the AmeriGas facility on the Southington/Plainville town line. Customer Forestville Lumber is seen to the left. |
Photo Date: |
2/21/2009 Upload Date: 2/25/2011 10:01:20 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40) |
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209 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 350 and MEC 352 shove train PL-1 across Broad Street on the Canal Line. The train is returning to the Plainville Yard after servicing the bustling AmeriGas facility. |
Photo Date: |
2/21/2009 Upload Date: 2/25/2011 10:03:02 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40) |
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264 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1 switches in the Plainville Yard before proceeding north to East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
3/7/2009 Upload Date: 3/19/2011 4:42:21 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) MEC 351(GP40) |
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265 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 351 and MEC 350 switch in the Plainville Yard on train PL-1. Once their train is together, they'll be going north to the East Deerfield, MA. Yard. |
Photo Date: |
3/7/2009 Upload Date: 3/19/2011 4:46:09 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 351(GP40) MEC 350(GP40) |
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231 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
With four loads of stone on the headpin, train PL-1, with MEC 353 for power, passes a car wash on the Plainville/New Britain town line. Stone loads haven't been seen on this train since Tilcon stopped getting service years ago. |
Photo Date: |
4/18/2009 Upload Date: 4/21/2009 8:58:26 AM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
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417 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, with MEC 351 for power, switches Perma Treat along the Waterbury Branch in New Britain. With the formation of Pan Am Southern, Perma Treat has been very busy shipping out new ties that will be used between Mechanicsville, NY. and Ayer, MA. |
Photo Date: |
11/7/2009 Upload Date: 11/20/2009 5:25:08 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 351(GP40) |
Views: |
1230 Comments: 9 |
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Title: |
MEC 351 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, with MEC 351 for power, performs some switching duties in the Plainville Yard before traveling to the East Deerfield, MA. yard. |
Photo Date: |
11/28/2009 Upload Date: 11/28/2009 8:27:48 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 351(GP40) |
Views: |
345 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 351 leads train PL-1 out of the Plainville Yard, bound for East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
11/28/2009 Upload Date: 11/28/2009 8:30:12 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 351(GP40) |
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371 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 352 leads train PL-1 across a stream just after exiting the Terryville Tunnel. The train is on its way to Waterbury with an empty for Albert Bros. Scrap and a load for Hubbard Hall Chemical. |
Photo Date: |
2/19/2010 Upload Date: 7/2/2011 10:14:48 AM |
Location: |
Plymouth, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 352(GP40) |
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359 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 351 switches Perma Treat on today's PL-1, which is traveling from Plainville, CT. to East Deerfield, MA. Note the former Long Island Railroad coach toward the end of the train. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2010 Upload Date: 9/18/2010 2:46:10 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 351(GP40) |
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366 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
SLRG 3007 |
Description: |
SLRG 3007, a former Long Island Railroad coach, passes through Berlin, CT. on northbound Wan Am train PL-1. It most likely had been in storage on the Naugatuck Railroad before being picked up by PL-1 in Waterbury the day before. |
Photo Date: |
9/18/2010 Upload Date: 9/18/2010 8:02:37 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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RollingStock |
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1005 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
A late-running PL-1 dashes north across the Farmington River on Amtrak's Springfield after an extensive wait in the Hartford Yard for trains 57 and 464. |
Photo Date: |
10/9/2010 Upload Date: 10/9/2010 6:55:58 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Scenic |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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447 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, this day with MEC 350 for power, sorts empty LPG tank cars in the Plainville Yard as National Eastern Steel's travel ctane looks on. The crane still sits in the yard even though the company closed a few years ago. |
Photo Date: |
11/20/2010 Upload Date: 11/27/2010 7:06:55 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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521 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, with MEC 350 doing the honors, arrives in Berlin to pick up the second half of yesterday's train from East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
12/30/2010 Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:37:39 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
Views: |
327 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, with MEC 350 doing the honors this week, departs Berlin after picking up the second half of yesterday's train from East Deerfield, MA. Pan Am's track through Plainville and into Waterbury diverges from Amtrak's Springfield Line just north of milepost 26. |
Photo Date: |
12/30/2010 Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:40:47 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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350 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
With the GE facility in the background, MEC 350 brings the last three LPG tank cars into the Plainville Yard after picking them up in Berlin from yesterday's run out of East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
12/30/2010 Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:43:38 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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303 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 352 |
Description: |
Train PL-1, with MEC 352 doing the honors this week, approaches Town Line Road at the Plainville/Southington town line, with three loaded LPG tank cars for AmeriGas. |
Photo Date: |
1/21/2011 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:36:28 AM |
Location: |
Southington, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 352(GP40) |
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569 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pan Am's Plainville Office |
Description: |
The pile of rubble which was the back half of Pan Am's Plainville Yard office sits under gloomy skies. The roof on part of the building caved in under the weight of snow and ice during the storm of January 18-19. It's just another sad sign of the brutal January that pummeled the Northeast with snowstorm after snowstorm. |
Photo Date: |
2/12/2011 Upload Date: 2/12/2011 6:29:04 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
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374 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 307 and the Plainville Yard Office |
Description: |
MEC 307, a rare visitor to Pan Am's Connecticut trackage due to its lack of cab signals, idles next to the Plainville Yard office, the back half of which collapsed during the snowstorm of January 18-19. |
Photo Date: |
2/12/2011 Upload Date: 2/12/2011 6:31:33 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Winter |
Locomotives: |
MEC 307(GP40) |
Views: |
457 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 350 |
Description: |
MEC 350 puts together train PL-1 on a sunny June morning. The train will soon begin its northbound trek to East Deerfield, MA. Note the centerbeam cars on the main-they're loaded with ties from Perma Treat, which usually loads gondolas in New Britain. Due to a shortage of gondolas, a few centerbeam cars have recently been loaded in the Plainville Yard. |
Photo Date: |
6/4/2011 Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:46:13 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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526 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
FSSX 897839 |
Description: |
FSSX 897839 departs Pan Am's Plainville Yard on northbound train PL-1. It was used as a spacer car earlier in the week on the train's journey from East Deerfield, MA. to the Plainville Yard. |
Photo Date: |
6/4/2011 Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:49:08 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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332 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BM 9014 |
Description: |
BM 9014 passes through Berlin on northbound train PL-1. The train will soon enter Amtrak's Springfield Line and continue its northbound trip. The car is loaded with scrap from J.W. Green on the Canal Line. |
Photo Date: |
6/4/2011 Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:56:07 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
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RollingStock |
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291 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 350 leads a seventeen car PL-1 northbound across the Farmington River as a family patiently awaits the day's catch. |
Photo Date: |
6/4/2011 Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:52:38 PM |
Location: |
Windsor, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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374 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 353, this week's power for train PL-1, switches Albert Bros. Scrap on a beautiful summer morning. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/2011 Upload Date: 7/1/2011 2:45:39 PM |
Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
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604 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Switching Hubbard Hall Chemical |
Description: |
Train PL-1, this week with MEC 353 for power, prepares to shove back to the Waterbury Yard after delivering a loaded tank car to Hubbard Hall Chemical on Metro-North's Waterbury Branch. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/2011 Upload Date: 7/1/2011 3:06:27 PM |
Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
426 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 350 |
Description: |
MEC 350 switches Perma Treat on train PL-1. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2011 Upload Date: 8/13/2011 1:24:02 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
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534 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 350 rounds the curve in Berlin with train PL-1. The train will soon enter Amtrak's Springfield Line, seen in the middle. Connecticut Southern's spur to AltuGlas International is seen in the foreground. |
Photo Date: |
8/13/2011 Upload Date: 8/13/2011 1:27:23 PM |
Location: |
Berlin, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
Views: |
459 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
First Drops |
Description: |
As the first few rain drops fall from the first outer band of Hurricane Irene, train PL-1 goes about the usual business of picking up loads of ties from Perma Treat on the way out of Plainville. |
Photo Date: |
8/27/2011 Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:35:28 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
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304 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 353 |
Description: |
As the first few drops fall from the first outer band of Hurricane Irene, MEC 353 brings train PL-1 toward the South Street crossing on the way to Berlin and the connection with Amtrak's Springfield Line. |
Photo Date: |
8/27/2011 Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:37:35 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
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247 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
As MEC 353 passes under Route 9, the tail end of a nineteen car PL-1 is still crossing South Street in New Britain. The train is on its way to the connection with Amtrak's Springfield Line in Berlin and eventually East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
8/27/2011 Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:50:01 PM |
Location: |
New Britain, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock |
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261 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 519 |
Description: |
MEC 519 sits in the Plainville Yard alongside one of Pan Am's high rail vehicles. |
Photo Date: |
9/1/2011 Upload Date: 9/2/2011 9:44:11 AM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 519(GP40-2LW) |
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350 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 519 |
Description: |
MEC 519 sits with MEC 353 in the Plainville Yard after servicing AmeriGas on the Canal Line. This marks the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to the Connecticut trackage. |
Photo Date: |
9/1/2011 Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:36:42 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 519(GP40-2LW) MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
420 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
MEC 353 |
Description: |
With part of Theis Steel's building in the background, MEC 353 leads PL-1 across busy Route 72 on the way to Firestone and Clark Western Steel. |
Photo Date: |
9/1/2011 Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:39:56 PM |
Location: |
Bristol, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
540 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
MEC 353 and MEC 519 lead PL-1 across the Pequabuck River, headed for Clark Western Steel and Firestone. This is the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to the Connecticut trackage. |
Photo Date: |
9/1/2011 Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:43:30 PM |
Location: |
Pequabuck, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) MEC 519(GP40-2LW) |
Views: |
560 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
Train PL-1 switches Clark Western Steel and Firestone near the Bristol/Terryville town line with MEC 519 and MEC 353 for power. This marks the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to Connecticut trackage. |
Photo Date: |
9/1/2011 Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:46:30 PM |
Location: |
Bristol, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 519(GP40-2LW) MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
464 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
MEC 350 |
Description: |
MEC 350 sorts cars in the Plainville Yard with train PL-1. The crew is preparing to depart north for East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 3:25:31 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
Views: |
354 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Train PL-1 |
Description: |
PL-1's crew sorts through cars empty propane tank cars in the Plainville Yard before departing for East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 6:13:27 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard,Action |
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332 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 350 |
Description: |
MEC 350 sorts cars under some colorful foliage in the Plainville Yard with train PL-1. The crew is preparing to depart north for East Deerfield, MA. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/15/2011 3:28:45 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
Views: |
550 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
MEC 350 |
Description: |
MEC 350 shoves train PL-1 back to the Plainville Yard after servicing the AmeriGas facility at the end of the Canal Line. Customer Forestville Lumber is at left. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/2011 Upload Date: 10/20/2011 6:15:33 PM |
Location: |
Plainville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 350(GP40) |
Views: |
328 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
MEC 353 |
Description: |
After running around two loads for Firestone, MEC 353 prepares to shove the cars up the spur into the facility. |
Photo Date: |
11/25/2011 Upload Date: 11/25/2011 6:24:50 PM |
Location: |
Terryville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
432 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 353 |
Description: |
After running around two loads for Firestone, MEC 353 prepares to shove the cars up the spur into the facility. |
Photo Date: |
11/25/2011 Upload Date: 11/25/2011 6:27:53 PM |
Location: |
Terryville, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
373 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
MEC 353 |
Description: |
MEC 353 coasts down grade toward the Route 6 crossing in Bristol after servicing Firestone at the top of the hill. |
Photo Date: |
11/25/2011 Upload Date: 12/26/2011 10:58:59 AM |
Location: |
Bristol, CT |
Author: |
Adam Twombly |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
MEC 353(GP40) |
Views: |
341 Comments: 0 |
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