Not much to post here but a couple of new pictures that just happened to be taken on "National Train Day". We didn't bother to go to any festivities, anywhere. The closest event of any interest was at the Downeaster Station in Brunswick. It might have been fun to look over the equipment, but the weather was poor and the equipment was not that new or fascinating to me. Besides, we wanted to go to an operating session at Brandon Kulik's near Waterville. This gave us an excuse to trace the middle of District 1.
We knew there'd be an oil train somewhere and the scanner mentioned RUPO. What we didn't expect was a parked WAPO or SJPO at 'Roy' on the west end of Leeds Jct. Apparently all the eastbound traffic stopped it there and time ran out on the crew. With that former BNSF paint on the HLCX unit staring at us, not to mention the mismatched number boards, we had to stop. It was re-crewed later in the afternoon.


It was getting close to 2pm and time to dash to the operating session when we decided to see if we could see what was on the end of the oil train parked in the yard. Carl noticed a marker and a small gap in the train as we followed the train down the yard, so we knew they'd already made the split and might leave. We were just about sure the power was behind the former Keyes Fiber plant so we stopped to looked down the tracks near the road underpass in Fairfield. OI-1 called District 1 while Carl was out for a look. We were off to the bridge over the Kennebec with a comfortable but not long wait.






After the op session we managed to dodge every train in District 1. Apparently POWA left 'Pike' (Leeds Jct.) at about the time we got to Augusta. This put the train out in the boonies while we passed through the area in the rainy darkness. Another eastbound was clearing Rigby yard and would not reach our area for who knows how long. This was at 9:30pm too. It was just best to call it quits. Not much was going to be worth the wait at that hour.
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