POED / EDPO (Portland - East Deerfield trains)

riffian wrote:I take it that's 11 loads and 96 empties.....

And it didn't seem to me that the SD40 was operating as it passed over Groton-Harvard Rd but I might be wrong.

Given the recent emergence of train PWED and given that EDPO made a rare appearance in Hill Yd on Friday 2/19/16, is PAR continuing to fine tune its PAS freight offerings? Or are all these recent odd events just situational one-offs? WRT EDPO's 60+ car pick-up at Hill Yd, would this ordinarily have been picked up by SEPO but the resulting SEPO outbound from Ayer would have been too big? Interesting developments...

One offs + always changing operating patterns.

POED came into Deerfield today with the 379-3404 and 48 cars.

Video by Derek Carpine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0JgWrsQmPQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

MEC407 wrote:Video by Derek Carpine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0JgWrsQmPQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's the fastest Pan Am freight I've ever seen!

Night is deceiving, they aren't going 40 in that video. The tail end gets a little faster as it progresses.

Being that close and having the camera zoom at a wide setting also makes them look like they're moving faster than they really are.

Then again, anything over 10 is fast by PAR standards.

MEC407 wrote:...Then again, anything over 10 is fast by PAR standards.

As it is said about football, railroading on Pan Am is a game of inches.

When I watch the video, the warning lights appeared to me to be blinking at a constant and appropriate rate.
The trains passing my office, near the Mountain Branch, are all traveling about 25 to 35 mph (around 50 feet/second), they appear to be going much faster because of what I'm used to seeing them run much slower, I guess. It's pretty impressive to have them traveling trough so many grade crossings that fast, though!
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newpylong wrote:Night is deceiving, they aren't going 40 in that video. The tail end gets a little faster as it progresses.

Probably don't have telemetry.

EDPO was out of Deerfield around 0730 with 506-340 and 46 cars.

EDPO 3401-516-8955 and 54 cars 37 CEFX cement thru Shirley at 1410.

Video by Signal Hill Productions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDDRitGNtw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

atholrail wrote:EDPO 3401-516-8955 and 54 cars 37 CEFX cement thru Shirley at 1410.

Any shots of the Cement cars? Wondering if they are destined for the CMQ Rockland Branch.