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By:Adam T
Dates:4/16/2006 - 12/30/2008
Album Info:This album features photos from Pan Am's Connecticut operations. Based out of Plainville, Connecticut, train PL-1 works a variety of customers on a number of branches. The train runs from Plainville to East Deerfield, MA. once a week, most often on Saturdays, and returns south on Tuesday or Wednesday of the next week.
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UTLX 5078
Title:  UTLX 5078
Description:  UTLX 5078, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:19:59 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
ACPX 33762
Title:  ACPX 33762
Description:  ACPX 33762, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:20:51 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  187   Comments: 0
PROX 31583
Title:  PROX 31583
Description:  PROX 31583, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:23:01 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock,Track,Action
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Views:  74   Comments: 0
UTLX 952606
Title:  UTLX 952606
Description:  UTLX 952606, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:23:49 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
UTLX 952571
Title:  UTLX 952571
Description:  UTLX 952571, an empty from AmeriGas on the Canal Line, departs the Plainville Yard for East Deerfield, MA. on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:22:22 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
EAMX 435
Title:  EAMX 435
Description:  EAMX 435, an empty for Sullivan Scrap on the Connecticut River Line, departs the Plainville Yard northbound on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  2/14/2009  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:55:55 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  110   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 352 leads train PL-1 through Berlin on a cloudy winter afternoon. The train is on its way to the Plainville Yard and has just entered Pan Am trackage after a sprint down Amtrak's Springfield Line.
Photo Date:  2/18/2009  Upload Date: 2/24/2011 12:15:27 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
First Time Ever
Title:  First Time Ever
Description:  For the first time ever, two Pan Am-painted units work on Pan Am train PL-1. MEC 350 and MEC 352 do some switching in the Plainville Yard after switching AmeriGas on the Canal Line.
Photo Date:  2/20/2009  Upload Date: 2/22/2009 8:05:59 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  507   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 350 and MEC 352 lead train PL-1 toward the AmeriGas facility on the Southington/Plainville town line. Customer Forestville Lumber is seen to the left.
Photo Date:  2/21/2009  Upload Date: 2/25/2011 10:01:20 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 350 and MEC 352 shove train PL-1 across Broad Street on the Canal Line. The train is returning to the Plainville Yard after servicing the bustling AmeriGas facility.
Photo Date:  2/21/2009  Upload Date: 2/25/2011 10:03:02 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40) MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1 switches in the Plainville Yard before proceeding north to East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  3/7/2009  Upload Date: 3/19/2011 4:42:21 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40) MEC 351(GP40)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 351 and MEC 350 switch in the Plainville Yard on train PL-1. Once their train is together, they'll be going north to the East Deerfield, MA. Yard.
Photo Date:  3/7/2009  Upload Date: 3/19/2011 4:46:09 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 351(GP40) MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  With four loads of stone on the headpin, train PL-1, with MEC 353 for power, passes a car wash on the Plainville/New Britain town line. Stone loads haven't been seen on this train since Tilcon stopped getting service years ago.
Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 4/21/2009 8:58:26 AM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  410   Comments: 1
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1, with MEC 351 for power, switches Perma Treat along the Waterbury Branch in New Britain. With the formation of Pan Am Southern, Perma Treat has been very busy shipping out new ties that will be used between Mechanicsville, NY. and Ayer, MA.
Photo Date:  11/7/2009  Upload Date: 11/20/2009 5:25:08 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 351(GP40)
Views:  1222   Comments: 9
MEC 351
Title:  MEC 351
Description:  Train PL-1, with MEC 351 for power, performs some switching duties in the Plainville Yard before traveling to the East Deerfield, MA. yard.
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 8:27:48 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 351(GP40)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 351 leads train PL-1 out of the Plainville Yard, bound for East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  11/28/2009  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 8:30:12 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 351(GP40)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 352 leads train PL-1 across a stream just after exiting the Terryville Tunnel. The train is on its way to Waterbury with an empty for Albert Bros. Scrap and a load for Hubbard Hall Chemical.
Photo Date:  2/19/2010  Upload Date: 7/2/2011 10:14:48 AM
Location:  Plymouth, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 351 switches Perma Treat on today's PL-1, which is traveling from Plainville, CT. to East Deerfield, MA. Note the former Long Island Railroad coach toward the end of the train.
Photo Date:  9/18/2010  Upload Date: 9/18/2010 2:46:10 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 351(GP40)
Views:  359   Comments: 1
SLRG 3007
Title:  SLRG 3007
Description:  SLRG 3007, a former Long Island Railroad coach, passes through Berlin, CT. on northbound Wan Am train PL-1. It most likely had been in storage on the Naugatuck Railroad before being picked up by PL-1 in Waterbury the day before.
Photo Date:  9/18/2010  Upload Date: 9/18/2010 8:02:37 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1000   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  A late-running PL-1 dashes north across the Farmington River on Amtrak's Springfield after an extensive wait in the Hartford Yard for trains 57 and 464.
Photo Date:  10/9/2010  Upload Date: 10/9/2010 6:55:58 PM
Location:  Windsor, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1, this day with MEC 350 for power, sorts empty LPG tank cars in the Plainville Yard as National Eastern Steel's travel ctane looks on. The crane still sits in the yard even though the company closed a few years ago.
Photo Date:  11/20/2010  Upload Date: 11/27/2010 7:06:55 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1, with MEC 350 doing the honors, arrives in Berlin to pick up the second half of yesterday's train from East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  12/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:37:39 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1, with MEC 350 doing the honors this week, departs Berlin after picking up the second half of yesterday's train from East Deerfield, MA. Pan Am's track through Plainville and into Waterbury diverges from Amtrak's Springfield Line just north of milepost 26.
Photo Date:  12/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:40:47 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  344   Comments: 1
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  With the GE facility in the background, MEC 350 brings the last three LPG tank cars into the Plainville Yard after picking them up in Berlin from yesterday's run out of East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  12/30/2010  Upload Date: 1/2/2011 7:43:38 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
MEC 352
Title:  MEC 352
Description:  Train PL-1, with MEC 352 doing the honors this week, approaches Town Line Road at the Plainville/Southington town line, with three loaded LPG tank cars for AmeriGas.
Photo Date:  1/21/2011  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:36:28 AM
Location:  Southington, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 352(GP40)
Views:  563   Comments: 0
Pan Am's Plainville Office
Title:  Pan Am's Plainville Office
Description:  The pile of rubble which was the back half of Pan Am's Plainville Yard office sits under gloomy skies. The roof on part of the building caved in under the weight of snow and ice during the storm of January 18-19. It's just another sad sign of the brutal January that pummeled the Northeast with snowstorm after snowstorm.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 2/12/2011 6:29:04 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
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Views:  371   Comments: 0
MEC 307 and the Plainville Yard Office
Title:  MEC 307 and the Plainville Yard Office
Description:  MEC 307, a rare visitor to Pan Am's Connecticut trackage due to its lack of cab signals, idles next to the Plainville Yard office, the back half of which collapsed during the snowstorm of January 18-19.
Photo Date:  2/12/2011  Upload Date: 2/12/2011 6:31:33 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  MEC 307(GP40)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
MEC 350
Title:  MEC 350
Description:  MEC 350 puts together train PL-1 on a sunny June morning. The train will soon begin its northbound trek to East Deerfield, MA. Note the centerbeam cars on the main-they're loaded with ties from Perma Treat, which usually loads gondolas in New Britain. Due to a shortage of gondolas, a few centerbeam cars have recently been loaded in the Plainville Yard.
Photo Date:  6/4/2011  Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:46:13 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
FSSX 897839
Title:  FSSX 897839
Description:  FSSX 897839 departs Pan Am's Plainville Yard on northbound train PL-1. It was used as a spacer car earlier in the week on the train's journey from East Deerfield, MA. to the Plainville Yard.
Photo Date:  6/4/2011  Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:49:08 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  331   Comments: 0
BM 9014
Title:  BM 9014
Description:  BM 9014 passes through Berlin on northbound train PL-1. The train will soon enter Amtrak's Springfield Line and continue its northbound trip. The car is loaded with scrap from J.W. Green on the Canal Line.
Photo Date:  6/4/2011  Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:56:07 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  289   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 350 leads a seventeen car PL-1 northbound across the Farmington River as a family patiently awaits the day's catch.
Photo Date:  6/4/2011  Upload Date: 6/5/2011 5:52:38 PM
Location:  Windsor, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 353, this week's power for train PL-1, switches Albert Bros. Scrap on a beautiful summer morning.
Photo Date:  7/1/2011  Upload Date: 7/1/2011 2:45:39 PM
Location:  Waterbury, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
Switching Hubbard Hall Chemical
Title:  Switching Hubbard Hall Chemical
Description:  Train PL-1, this week with MEC 353 for power, prepares to shove back to the Waterbury Yard after delivering a loaded tank car to Hubbard Hall Chemical on Metro-North's Waterbury Branch.
Photo Date:  7/1/2011  Upload Date: 7/1/2011 3:06:27 PM
Location:  Waterbury, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
MEC 350
Title:  MEC 350
Description:  MEC 350 switches Perma Treat on train PL-1.
Photo Date:  8/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/13/2011 1:24:02 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  530   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 350 rounds the curve in Berlin with train PL-1. The train will soon enter Amtrak's Springfield Line, seen in the middle. Connecticut Southern's spur to AltuGlas International is seen in the foreground.
Photo Date:  8/13/2011  Upload Date: 8/13/2011 1:27:23 PM
Location:  Berlin, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
First Drops
Title:  First Drops
Description:  As the first few rain drops fall from the first outer band of Hurricane Irene, train PL-1 goes about the usual business of picking up loads of ties from Perma Treat on the way out of Plainville.
Photo Date:  8/27/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:35:28 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
MEC 353
Title:  MEC 353
Description:  As the first few drops fall from the first outer band of Hurricane Irene, MEC 353 brings train PL-1 toward the South Street crossing on the way to Berlin and the connection with Amtrak's Springfield Line.
Photo Date:  8/27/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:37:35 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  As MEC 353 passes under Route 9, the tail end of a nineteen car PL-1 is still crossing South Street in New Britain. The train is on its way to the connection with Amtrak's Springfield Line in Berlin and eventually East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  8/27/2011  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 12:50:01 PM
Location:  New Britain, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  260   Comments: 0
MEC 519
Title:  MEC 519
Description:  MEC 519 sits in the Plainville Yard alongside one of Pan Am's high rail vehicles.
Photo Date:  9/1/2011  Upload Date: 9/2/2011 9:44:11 AM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 519(GP40-2LW)
Views:  349   Comments: 0
MEC 519
Title:  MEC 519
Description:  MEC 519 sits with MEC 353 in the Plainville Yard after servicing AmeriGas on the Canal Line. This marks the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to the Connecticut trackage.
Photo Date:  9/1/2011  Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:36:42 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 519(GP40-2LW) MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  418   Comments: 1
MEC 353
Title:  MEC 353
Description:  With part of Theis Steel's building in the background, MEC 353 leads PL-1 across busy Route 72 on the way to Firestone and Clark Western Steel.
Photo Date:  9/1/2011  Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:39:56 PM
Location:  Bristol, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  MEC 353 and MEC 519 lead PL-1 across the Pequabuck River, headed for Clark Western Steel and Firestone. This is the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to the Connecticut trackage.
Photo Date:  9/1/2011  Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:43:30 PM
Location:  Pequabuck, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40) MEC 519(GP40-2LW)
Views:  556   Comments: 2
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  Train PL-1 switches Clark Western Steel and Firestone near the Bristol/Terryville town line with MEC 519 and MEC 353 for power. This marks the first time in several years one of Pan Am's widenose GP40s has made it to Connecticut trackage.
Photo Date:  9/1/2011  Upload Date: 9/1/2011 8:46:30 PM
Location:  Bristol, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 519(GP40-2LW) MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  459   Comments: 1
MEC 350
Title:  MEC 350
Description:  MEC 350 sorts cars in the Plainville Yard with train PL-1. The crew is preparing to depart north for East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/15/2011 3:25:31 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  351   Comments: 1
Train PL-1
Title:  Train PL-1
Description:  PL-1's crew sorts through cars empty propane tank cars in the Plainville Yard before departing for East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 6:13:27 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
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Views:  330   Comments: 0
MEC 350
Title:  MEC 350
Description:  MEC 350 sorts cars under some colorful foliage in the Plainville Yard with train PL-1. The crew is preparing to depart north for East Deerfield, MA.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/15/2011 3:28:45 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  546   Comments: 3
MEC 350
Title:  MEC 350
Description:  MEC 350 shoves train PL-1 back to the Plainville Yard after servicing the AmeriGas facility at the end of the Canal Line. Customer Forestville Lumber is at left.
Photo Date:  10/15/2011  Upload Date: 10/20/2011 6:15:33 PM
Location:  Plainville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 350(GP40)
Views:  326   Comments: 1
MEC 353
Title:  MEC 353
Description:  After running around two loads for Firestone, MEC 353 prepares to shove the cars up the spur into the facility.
Photo Date:  11/25/2011  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 6:24:50 PM
Location:  Terryville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
MEC 353
Title:  MEC 353
Description:  After running around two loads for Firestone, MEC 353 prepares to shove the cars up the spur into the facility.
Photo Date:  11/25/2011  Upload Date: 11/25/2011 6:27:53 PM
Location:  Terryville, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
MEC 353
Title:  MEC 353
Description:  MEC 353 coasts down grade toward the Route 6 crossing in Bristol after servicing Firestone at the top of the hill.
Photo Date:  11/25/2011  Upload Date: 12/26/2011 10:58:59 AM
Location:  Bristol, CT
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MEC 353(GP40)
Views:  334   Comments: 0


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