Billy's Excellent Adventures Day 2

Billy and I headed out around 9am under gray skies bound for Waterville and points in between. Here is the detail:


Leeds Jct
POWA @ 1010
321, 353, 6428, 518, 379 they set out cars before we arrived and moved east. We met a true railfan from Oregon here. Business put him in our neighborhood for a bit. As he remarked, this was not a very photogenic spot.



Waterville @1145
ST72, BM320 switching the yard.
Our first but not last Geep encounter.







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Fairfield @1210
SAPPI (from mill, wb)
BM252, ST15, 23 cars
Nothing like an old MEC GP38 with a bright lime green bell to lift our damp spirits.


Wtvl @1350
NMED BM333, MEC,506 (dk blue)
This guy snuck up on us after lunch.






Oakland @1410
MD-1 #71 10 cars
Bill's luck! We were in town to see the place and bam, there's a headlight!







Danville Jct @1655
SLR 513Xtra
GP15-1 #1505
These guys pushed back over the diamond to LJ through the construction crews on Pan Am. Note the new trackwork on the SLR side.





This photo is from the day before as RUED passes the construction work at Danville Jct. Here we see track panels ready to go. Ties, hardware, old rail, and heavy equipment are all over the place. The dirt road will be closing any day now.








As has become the norm for one of Billy's visits, the trains came out of hiding and put on a pretty good show! We saw three live Geeps in action (72, 15 & 71 - 45 may have been in the "dead line"), a lease unit, one newish Pan Am paint scheme (506) and the road's only GP38! Not a bad tally for a single day in Maine.

BC