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Owner: Maine Central
Model:EMD GP40-2LWBuilt As:CN 9412 (GP40-2LW)
Serial Number:A2990Order No:C365
Frame Number:Built:3/1974
Notes:Ex CN 9412, Pan Am Paint
Other locos with this serial:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
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Rigby Yard
Title:  Rigby Yard
Description:  MEC 501 - NEC 518 on Track 217, MEC 7518 - MEC 306 - MEC 383 - MEC 512 - MEC 310 - BM 326 on Track 107, PORU with BM 330 - MEC 511 - MEC 507 getting ready to depart and DJ-1 with MEC 600 also getting ready to depart after PORU.
Photo Date:  7/19/2021  Upload Date: 8/11/2021 9:00:10 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW) MEC 518(GP40-2LW) MEC 7635(C40-8)
Views:  81   Comments: 0
Rigby Yard
Title:  Rigby Yard
Description:  Amtrak 684 with AMTK 118 - AMTK 92 passes through Rigby Yard. MEC 501 - NEC 518 on Track 217, MEC 7518 - MEC 306 - MEC 383 - MEC 512 - MEC 310 - BM 326 on Track 107, PORU with BM 330 - MEC 511 - MEC 507 getting ready to depart and DJ-1 with MEC 600 also getting ready to depart after PORU.
Photo Date:  7/19/2021  Upload Date: 8/11/2021 9:00:36 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW) MEC 7635(C40-8) AMTK 92(P42DC)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
Rigby Yard
Title:  Rigby Yard
Description:  (Left): MEC 502 - MEC 5948 - MEC 306 - MEC 383 - MEC 307. (Middle): MEC 5963. (Right): MEC 501. MEC 310 - MEC 510 were on the house track out of frame and AYPO with MEC 7517 - MEC 7609 was just about to park their power on the pit.
Photo Date:  7/23/2021  Upload Date: 8/11/2021 9:33:46 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 502(GP40-2LW) MEC 5963(B40-8) MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
MEC 501
Title:  MEC 501
Description:  Seen at Rigby Yard.
Photo Date:  3/26/2022  Upload Date: 3/27/2022 11:27:12 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
MEC 501 & CP 2279
Title:  MEC 501 & CP 2279
Description:  CP 2279 sits beside MEC 501 at Rigby Yard. CP 2279 has been the power for the Rockland Branch for the past year and it awaiting a ride back north to the main CP system.
Photo Date:  3/26/2022  Upload Date: 3/27/2022 11:22:12 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW) CP 2279(GP20C-ECO)
Views:  70   Comments: 0
DO-1 501 at Portsmouth Yard
Title:  DO-1 501 at Portsmouth Yard
Description:  DO-1 with MEC 501 - MEC 503 is finished with its day of switching customers on the Newington branch as it is seen parked at the yard in Portsmouth NH with one empty from Boise followed by sixteen propane empties. To the left is another cut of ten propane loads and about twenty plastic loads for Tyco. DO-2 would take the train west later that evening.
Photo Date:  8/8/2022  Upload Date: 8/9/2022 8:44:41 PM
Location:  Portsmouth, NH
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  31   Comments: 0
DO-1 503 Switches Boise
Title:  DO-1 503 Switches Boise
Description:  After grabbing their consist at the yard that PO-9 had brought up overnight from Rockingham Junction, DO-1 with MEC 503 - MEC 501 swaps out an loaded IBT boxcar for an empty one at Boise Cascade in Portsmouth, NH.
Photo Date:  8/8/2022  Upload Date: 8/9/2022 8:41:21 PM
Location:  Portsmouth, NH
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
DO-1 501 Runs Along the Piscataqua
Title:  DO-1 501 Runs Along the Piscataqua
Description:  DO-1 with MEC 501 - MEC 503 and seventeen empties runs along the Piscataqua River separating Maine and New Hampshire. They will tie down on the main at Portsmouth Yard and DO-2 will take the train west later that night.
Photo Date:  8/8/2022  Upload Date: 8/9/2022 8:45:02 PM
Location:  Portsmouth, NH
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW) MEC 503(GP40-2LW)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
DO-1 501 Switches Sea-3
Title:  DO-1 501 Switches Sea-3
Description:  DO-1 with MEC 501 - MEC 503 puts together four cuts of four empty tank cars in Newington, NH before heading to the runaround.
Photo Date:  8/8/2022  Upload Date: 8/9/2022 8:41:50 PM
Location:  Newington, NH
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
Rigby Yard
Title:  Rigby Yard
Description:  CSXT 481 - CSXT 476 - CSXT 470 - MEC 345 - MEC 310 - MEC 7585 - MEC 7561 sit on the pit while PO-1 with MEC 501 switches the east end of the yard. PO-4 with MEC 381 - MEC 316 were switching at the west end of the yard. PO-3 with MEC 518 was in Brunswick. RUPO's power was behind me out of frame with MEC 307 - MEC 505 - MEC 512.
Photo Date:  8/31/2022  Upload Date: 9/1/2022 10:19:17 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CSX 481(AC44CW) MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  77   Comments: 0
East end of Portland yard
Title:  East end of Portland yard
Description:  Portland yard on a chilly Sunday morning with two crews on duty looking off US highway 1. @ 09:00 hrs
Photo Date:  10/2/2022  Upload Date: 10/12/2022 10:38:46 AM
Location:  Portland, ME
Author:  Alex Piechowski
Categories:  Yard,Track,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 315(GP40) MEC 501(GP40-2LW) MEC 7643(C40-8)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
MEC 501
Title:  MEC 501
Description:  Seen at Rigby Yard.
Photo Date:  6/11/2023  Upload Date: 6/13/2023 4:06:40 PM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  33   Comments: 0
MEC 501 Leads PO-3 at Rock Junction
Title:  MEC 501 Leads PO-3 at Rock Junction
Description:  PO-3 (L077) with MEC 501 and four hoppers rolls west off the former MEC Augusta Lower Road in Brunswick, Maine after interchanging with FGLK.
Photo Date:  6/29/2023  Upload Date: 7/8/2023 9:23:34 AM
Location:  Brunswick, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
MEC 501 Leads PO-3 at Freeport
Title:  MEC 501 Leads PO-3 at Freeport
Description:  PO-3 (L077) with MEC 501, three cement loads, and one empty perlite hopper passes the MEC telltale at the Rt. 1 overpass in Freeport, Maine on a warm early summer afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/29/2023  Upload Date: 7/8/2023 9:23:55 AM
Location:  Freeport, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
MEC 501
Title:  MEC 501
Description:  Seen on Thanisgiving at CSX's Rigby Yard. It had been used on L056 at Danville earlier in the week and would be used on L077 the next day.
Photo Date:  11/23/2023  Upload Date: 11/28/2023 11:09:25 AM
Location:  South Portland, ME
Author:  Dan Comick
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  MEC 501(GP40-2LW)
Views:  50   Comments: 0


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