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| Dave Blaze Rail Photography posted Merger Motors A CSXT/Pan Am Rigby yard crew has a merger set of power in the form MEC 514 and CSXT 2548 that they just brought off the pad and are heading down into the yard with to gather up a rail train that they need to turn. The former is a GP40-2W blt. Apr.1976 as CN 9655 and the latter is a GP38-2 blt. Nov. 1973 as SCL 548 and delivered in black and yellow. They are seen beside the old searchlight signals still guarding CPF 199 at the east end of the big former Portland Terminal Company yard with the US Route 1 overpass directly overhead. Behind them sporting a new blue roof and windows courtesy of CSXT is Tower PT which has to be among the most modern interlocking towers in the country having been built in 1973 on the site of old wooden PTM Tower 2. Tower PT served to consolidate and take over the function of Portland Terminal towers 2 (which by then already had taken over the work of Tower 1 at the west end of Rigby) and X (which was itself a consolidation of the work of towers 3, 4, and 5 when it opened in 1954). This tower closed in 1996 one month after Tower A in Waterville and was abandoned and boarded up for well over a decade before this recent revival as office space allegedly for CSXT's local engineering department personnel. South Portland, Maine Saturday February 18, 2023 P.S. - if you haven't already, please like or follow this page ....and give it a share too. Thank you! Zach Malcolm shared |
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