So what do we call the railroad anyway?

B&M? GUILFORD? Pan-am? I just cant bring myself to call it Pan-Am railways because it does not operate anywhere near the equator..

I don't know about the rest of you but it is still the Boston and Maine or
Maine Central to me.
Noel Weaver

Will always be the B&M to me too!

B&M forever

I call it a sad excuse for a railroad.

Can only be Boston & Maine!

Peter B&MMEC

It's Springfield Terminal Railway, that is still the official name.

mick wrote:It's Springfield Terminal Railway, that is still the official name.

Ive noticed on the Guilford Website alot of addressed for the different personel are still listed for ST and some are for Pan Am Railways.. Why is their all different addresses when the e-maik addresses are all @panamrailways.com? And i thought the company's name itself was now Pan Am Railways An ex of what I mean is below:

D Gordon, Eng. Dept.
Springfield Terminal Railway Co.
High Street, Iron Horse Park
No. Billerica, MA 01862

David A. Nagy, Executive Director Safety & Training
Pan Am Railways Iron Horse Park
No. Billerica, MA 01862

GP40MC 1116 wrote:

mick wrote:It's Springfield Terminal Railway, that is still the official name.

Ive noticed on the Guilford Website alot of addressed for the different personel are still listed for ST and some are for Pan Am Railways.. Why is their all different addresses when the e-maik addresses are all @panamrailways.com? And i thought the company's name itself was now Pan Am Railways An ex of what I mean is below:

D Gordon, Eng. Dept.
Springfield Terminal Railway Co.
High Street, Iron Horse Park
No. Billerica, MA 01862

David A. Nagy, Executive Director Safety & Training
Pan Am Railways Iron Horse Park
No. Billerica, MA 01862

Well Bernie we should know more about this because Peter gave us a history less on the Flight Attendants. However for some reason that history lesson has faded into my brain somewhere and I can't quite remember what he said. The official Name is Pan Am Railways and ST, BM and MEC exist through labor contracts, union agreements etc. but that’s where I have forgotten all the valuable information Peter told us.

When is the union contract up for renewal?

When it is I bet you see Pan Am fully take over and end the MEC/B&M paper trails ending the union,seems like something head office would pull.

Everybody called it Guilford before, and now that they've changed the name from Guilford to Pan Am, why not call it Pan Am? I don't see what all the confusion is about.

It's funny, but the paperwork that I get for the PL-1 when they run on the Waterbury says Springfield Terminal , but I still call them the Boston & Maine guys. Still glad that they are running.

It is still referred to as B & M here in the Hampton area. Even to the State, it is referred to as B & M when doing contruction of any kind near the rails here in town.

As I understood it in the past, GTI was the corporate entity, and GRS was the "road name" of the company, with BM, ST, and MEC being subsidaries and reporting marks underneath it all.

Noel Weaver wrote:I don't know about the rest of you but it is still the Boston and Maine or
Maine Central to me.
Noel Weaver

Noel, I'm with you....it will always be the Maine Central and the Boston & Maine to me..........regardless of what THEY call it

I'm sure there are people in CBQ and ATSF territory who feel the same way... but like it or not, that railroad is called BNSF.

The MEC will always be the MEC, and the B&M will always be the B&M... but they're owned by a "company" called Pan Am and there's nothing that any of us can do to change that, so we might as well accept it and move on.