"Up North" Gawking (District 1 sightings)

Today's L072w is 7605/8873/1721 and 62 cars.

Today's L072w with CSXT 9025 leading has 69 cars.

WA-1 or whatever local out of Waterville that hasn't been abolished yet, derailed somewhere around the Waterville-Winslow bridge the other day.

CN9634 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:25 pm Crew can refuse power for these reasons but often times do not. This is why you'll see foreign power leaders on Canadian roads, if they don't care and just want to get going. Also AC units aren't always roof mounted units, you can see others mounted in front of or behind cabs on units that did not come with it or had been rebuilt.

CSX only uses the roof mounted AC units on its EMD's.

Today's L072e is 1721/8009/7643 and 35 cars.

R.J. Corman's Rail crew had rail installed up to the west side of Barrel Shop Road in Greene by mid afternoon
today. At about the same time crews with two highrail trucks were working west of Stetson Road and a ballast
regulator was working west of Strawberry Avenue in Lewiston. All the while an eastbound freight had been
waiting at Rumford Jct. since before 1430.

Is the other crew still working on the switches at Leeds Jct?

Unfortunately I didn't go to Leeds Jct so I don't know if any progress was made on the switches last week.
My last trip there two weeks ago revealed that the junction switch and the siding west switch had been assembled
off to the side but not installed. The cross-over between the main and the siding west of the Leeds Jct Road crossing was installed last spring - it makes it much easier for the two sides of the Rumford job to swap trains there.

More progress- new rail has been installed eastward up to the west switch at Leeds Junction and all the
switches in the Leeds Junction yard that are visible from a public road have been replaced.

If you get a look at the switch again, see if the joints up to it were welded

The switch stands they used for the cross overs look to be like what SCL/ACL used, odd how those ended up here. Figured they would either use the speedy throw stub switches or a MEC style stand.

Today's L072e was 1727/7643/8833 and 26 cars.

They went back west as 8833/7643/1727 and 58 cars.

Around 13:30 this afternoon GP40WH-2 #9969 was at Rigby Yard, facing east, with two CSX track geometry cars.

by BM6569
Mon Aug 05, 2024 8:08 pm
If you get a look at the switch again, see if the joints up to it were welded

Pretty sure I remember seeing regular bolted joints.

High-and-wide freight vs. Portland Transportation Center?

From the Amtrak Downeaster thread in the Amtrak forum:

MBTAVideoClips wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:29 pm Witnessed MEC 507 strike Portland ME station canopy Aug 15 2024 5:53 PM. Had cars that were too wide. Crew of 507 didn't seem to notice either, the railroad only found out after the arrival of Amtrak 685 at 6:20 PM. Damage to the canopy seems bad, especially on the northern end where a part of it snapped off and was pushed up. Concrete around the poles also damaged, cracked, displaced, etc.