Maine Central (MEC) 376 - EMD GP40

Seen at Pan Am's Rigby Yard.

POED arriving into E Deerfield Yard. Quite the line up of power! In 2019, 376 & 643 are retired. The other units are still active but repainted.

POED arriving into E Deerfield Yard. The Conn River Loop branches left. Under the nose of 376 was the switch to the Turners Falls Branch. In 2019, 376 & 643 are gone.

POED arriving into E Deerfield Yard. Quite the line up of power! In 2019, 376 & 643 are retired and 300 is out of service. The other units are still active but repainted.

POED arriving into E Deerfield Yard. Quite the line up of power! In 2019, 376 & 643 are retired and 300 is out of service. The other units are still active but repainted.

POED arriving into E Deerfield Yard. Quite the line up of power! In 2019, 376 & 643 are retired and 300 is out of service. The other units are still active but repainted.

HLCX 6221 - HLCX 6404 - MEC 510 - MEC 376 detach from B&M 334 at Rigby Yard. The first four units mentioned were the power for POSE.

A long WAED with MEC 376 - MEC 370 - MEC 605 arrives at Rigby Yard.

Brunswick Extra with MEC 376 - MEC 374 struggles upgrade as it prepares to cross River Rd. in Topsham with ten loads of scrap from Grimmel's.

Brunswick Extra with MEC 374 - MEC 376 crosses Stanwood St. in Brunswick. They will head light up the Lewiston Lower Branch to Grimmel's to retrieve ten loads of scrap.

POWA w/ MEC 376 - MEC 502 - MEC 506 heads east approaching Cobb's Bridge Road - New Gloucester Maine.

headed to switch Praxair

PORU eastbound at Merrill Road just east of Lewiston. /DL

SJPO just entering the yard westbound approaching MP 46. A Sperry track inspection car and the Old Town switcher (OT1) are waiting for SJPO to clear. Sperry is to head east and OT1 will, as I recall follow SJPO west. /DL

At the EMRY / PAR interchange. EMRY main to the left, interchange tracks in mid frame. /DL

(PO-4 or PO-5) w/ MEC 376 switches a cut of cars at Rigby Yard, that had been on Track 35.

(PO-4 or PO-5) w/ MEC 376 switches a cut of cars at Rigby Yard, that had been on Track 35.

PORU with MEC 376-508-509 and no cars heads east towards Read Street in Portland Maine.

Heading back to Hill yard with empty racks.

The crew has run out of time here at Ayer. One of the Ayer crews will board the train and take it to Wachusett Curve and tie it down.

A outbound rolls past a local stopped at the tower.

Switching cars at Ayer.

The eastbound departs with the new leader running long hood forward.

The commuter rolls west as the freight prepares to head east.

The planned rescue power for EDRJ was MEC 376, sitting on the interchange track with Vermont Railway at nearby Hoosick Junction. It had also apparently canned the night before. But the re-crew had not arrived, and I was presented with the opportunity to chase the 206 Autoracks eastbound, so I didn't hang around to see what happened to EDRJ.

This BNSF Dash 9 seems like a giant compared to MEC 376 - as they sit at Rigby Yard on a warm Friday evening.

A morning view-of Rigby shows a switcher working on the east end along with some foreign power coupled to a train.

The BNSF & UP power is seen from the Route 1#Bridge at the east end og Rigby.

Pan Am train EDWA heading east through Ballardvale commuter rail station.

LA-2's pwer from last night, waits for a re-crew at Third Avenue.