The SAPPI-3 local is seen heading toward Waterville along the Kennebec River on the Hinckley Branch. The local runs between the SAPPI paper plant in Skowhegan and the Waterville Yard. The stacks f... (more)

The SAPPI-3 local is seen heading toward Waterville along the Kennebec River on the Hinckley Branch. The local runs between the SAPPI paper plant in Skowhegan and the Waterville Yard. The stacks f... (more)

For the first time in many weeks, January 20, 2018 was a beautiful sunny and mild day in Northern New England. One could be outside for more than five minutes without feeling like he or she was d... (more)

January 20, 2018 brought people from several different states up to Pan Am's Hinckley Branch near Waterville, Maine for one common purpose. That was to catch the road's two Heritage GP9s once aga... (more)

With the first pair of Pan Am Railway leasers on point, the Sappi Mill local has made it's run down from Hinckley to Waterville. Now they are in the process of switching cars around Waterville Ya... (more)

For the first time in what feels like several months, it was warm enough in Central Maine to stand outside for more than a few minutes while waiting for a train. In filtered sun, Pan Am Railway's... (more)

Like so many Hinckley Branch chases in the past, the one from January 14, 2017 ended within sight of the home signals into Waterville Yard. Stepping off the bridge over Route 201/Upper Main Stree... (more)

With it's normally assigned slug set out of service or somewhere else on the system, Pan Am Railway's SAPPI-3 was under the control of a familiar face on January 14, 2017. Approaching a crossing ... (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)

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)

With widecab 500 series GP40s holding down a lot of the recent jobs East of Waterville, Maine lately, a high-hood cousin was worth some extra miles of drive time on a somewhat sunny March 8, 2014.... (more)

The daily Pan Am turn, SAPPI-3, heads towards Waterville on a beautiful Fall afternoon, with a good sized train. They have a pair of leased GMTX units for power.

New England Heritage: Pam Am Railways' heritage unit, Boston and Maine No. 77, rolls along the Kennebec River near Hinkley, Maine on Jan. 5, 2013. The locomotive was painted in August 2011 ... (more)

Unbelievable: That's what I thought when I first heard of a Pan Am 'heritage' program; After all, under all that blue paint, it was still Guilford. Wasn't it? Well it only took one afternoo... (more)