Annual Catch

For a third year in a row I've managed to have a camera on hand for something moving on the Rumford branch of the old MEC.  This time, owing to construction near my usual spot in Peru, I pass over the branch in Canton on the way to work each morning.  This spot is near the old wye that used to take the line down to Rumford Jct. in Auburn.  Yesterday the crossing lights lit up as I neared the crossing so I pulled out the mini-camera.  The train was a good distance away and putting along so I sped ahead (like everyone else) and turned to the crossing in the center of the wye where I caught this guy.  There's little traffic on the road so I just sat there with the camera pointed out the window short of the crossing.

This year, like the last two, a blue high hood GP40 was on the point.  The difference this year is that I got the other end of the number class.  I got 370 the last two times.  Now I have the recently acquired oddball 382 at the other end of the class.  I don't recall precisely, but isn't that a unit from NS to make up for one wrecked by them somewhere?

Here is my last encounter, and the first encounter, with something on the Rumford line. 

For me it's a minor victory. 

BC