Secondhand GE's from CSXT make up most of the Pan Am Railways roster in 2018. MEC B40-8 #5943 is switching at East Deerfield, MA 1/26/18.

The power for the Maine Central's Rockland Branch train lays over at Rockland, ME, yard on a summer afternoon. MEC 332 is an SW7 and mate 334 is an SW9. Later in the day they will power train NJ-2... (more)

A pair of Maine Central U23B’s, still in D&H lightning stripe paint, have pushed a northbound Delaware & Hudson train up Penobscot Mountain from Lehighton, Pennsylvania. They have run around the... (more)

A local transfer run of Canadian grain hoppers from the Maine Central to the CN (via the Atlantic & St. Lawrence RR) does some street running on Commercial Street in downtown Portland.

Chopped-nose Maine Central GP7 590 leads a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s on train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) southbound at Brattleboro, VT. The B&M Connecticut River Line tra... (more)

As the last bit of sunlight dips below the horizon, freshly-painted MEC C40-8 #7635 leads ST Train RJED along the Hoosic River in Pownal, Vermont.

MAIDEN VOYAGE: For the first time since being repainted from its former CSX colors into Pan Am's paint scheme, MEC C40-8 #7635 leads a train on Pan Am Southern's "West End"--in th... (more)

U18Bs 406 and 400 head a Mattawamkeag - Lincoln freight.

Though its exterior looks weathered and worn, MEC C40-8 #7523--a former CSX unit--soldiers on for Pan Am Southern. Here, it leads ST Train RJED (Rotterdam Junction, NY to East Deerfield, MA) east... (more)

Guilford colors dominate one of the Delaware & Hudson service tracks in Conklin, New York. In a little over seven months, GTI would pull out of the D&H, and the Susquehanna will operate the Bridge... (more)

It’s early morning on the day after Christmas, 1985, and five Maine Central U-Boats move out of the Delaware & Hudson East Binghamton Engine Terminal. They have been assigned to helper/runaround... (more)

Other than a few Alco road switchers, the Maine Central's road power was largely EMD until GE sold them ten U18 "baby boats" in 1975. Later, the MEC ended up with two classes of secondhand U-boats... (more)

The Maine Central purchased two Alco RS11’s in 1956. One went to subsidiary Portland Terminal, and one went to the parent company. Within six months, PTM 1082 became MEC 802, reunited with siste... (more)

With an aging, ailing motive power fleet, Guilford scoured the used locomotive market for bargains. One source was the Detroit Edison fleet of SD40’s and U30C’s. The B&M got one of the GE’s,... (more)

Maine Central GP7 579, still in its original 1952 paint, stands in front of the freight house in Rockland, Maine in 1977. The unit was chop nosed and painted in MEC’s gold/green scheme in 1980, ... (more)