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| Title: |
Getting out |
| Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Turn was one of a very few trains to run on Memorial Day weekend, so I was lucky to catch it. Here it is, just getting underway at the MEC yard-now signed for Springfield Terminal, note the sign on the office at left-with a trio of interesting units. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:00:49 AM |
| Location: |
Bangor, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) BM 1741(GP9) |
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946 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
B&M on the Bucksport Turn |
| Description: |
The Bucksport Turn ran Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, using a classic set of New England power. Here we see it with a blue B&M geep, and a pair of Harvest Gold MEC units, arriving at Bucksport. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:03:34 AM |
| Location: |
Bucksport, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
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684 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling south |
| Description: |
Now off the bridge from Bangor, the Turn gets moving toward Bucksport. Thats the railfan chase vehicle. It was a company car that I had on a 24/7 basis. They mostly didnt care where I took it, though I had to buy my own gas when on personal use. I lived ten miles from my job, and put 38,000 miles on it in a year. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:04:27 AM |
| Location: |
Brewer, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
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803 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the bridge |
| Description: |
The Bucksport Turn crosses the Penobscot River just after leaving the Bangor yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/7/2015 2:07:00 AM |
| Location: |
Brewer, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
| Views: |
684 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
This is what I want in my back yard!! |
| Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Job rolls past a home en route from Bangor to Bucksport on a Memorial Day weekend. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 2/25/2013 1:24:29 AM |
| Location: |
Orrington, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
| Views: |
769 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Bucksport job |
| Description: |
The Maine Central Bucksport Job works south from Northern Maine Jct on Memorial Day weekend 1988 with a classic set of New England power. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 6/10/2012 1:51:47 AM |
| Location: |
Orrington, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
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934 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bucksport Turn |
| Description: |
The MEC Bucksport Turn went to work on Sunday of Memorial Day weekend with a typically New England power set. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 9/10/2013 1:25:54 AM |
| Location: |
Orrington, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BM 1709(GP9) MEC 561(GP7) MEC 401(U18B) |
| Views: |
785 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hannah Weston |
| Description: |
The Bucksport Turn arrives at the yard to work, seen going away to highlight the unusual power, one of MECs U18Bs |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:05:19 AM |
| Location: |
Bucksport, ME |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 401(U18B) MEC 561(GP7) BM 1709(GP9) |
| Views: |
756 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
No its not Rigby |
| Description: |
Guilford moved equipment all over the system, and it was not uncommon to find component roads power-and NS power-anywhere on the system. This "heritage" GP 7 was at Binghamton, along with a companion caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
12/31/1986 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 3:07:38 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 572(GP7) |
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547 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going for a ride |
| Description: |
We went up to North Conway on the way to Mt Washington in July 2004. It was a convenient place to overnight, and we got to ride a few miles on the old Maine Central Mountain Division. Sadly, gone are the days of harvest gold GP 38s lugging real tonnage over the White Mountains to Vermont. The weather, as it always is for me, is dismal. |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/2004 Upload Date: 9/19/2017 4:51:03 AM |
| Location: |
North Conway, NH |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MEC 573(GP7) BM 4268(F7A) |
| Views: |
801 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Interesting dead line |
| Description: |
Theyre not all dead, some are waiting for shop time. Still, its quite a gallery, with everything from 40 year old GP 7s to six axle GEs. Only in Binghamton. |
| Photo Date: |
3/5/1988 Upload Date: 7/1/2015 2:49:08 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Winter,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ST 638(SD26) MEC 576(GP7) BM 1718(GP9) DH 656(U33C) BM 190(U33B) NYSW 6366(SD45) PNER 1751(GP9) |
| Views: |
2182 Comments: 3 |
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