Pan Am Southern Train PL-1 heads eastbound along Greystone Road in the Town of Plymouth. Hancock Brook Lake is on the other side of the tree line.

Pan Am Southern's Connecticut base at Plainville services freight rail customers in the state between Berlin and Waterbury on Pan Am Southern trackage, and from Waterbury to Seymour on the Metro-North Railroad Waterbury Branch.


The history of this line includes the New Haven, Penn Central, Conrail, Boston & Maine, Guilford Rail System, Pan Am Railways, and currently Pan Am Southern.

Boston & Maine purchased the line from Conrail in 1982, prior to purchase of the B&M by Guilford in 1983.

Pan Am Southern is a joint venture created in 2009 between Pan Am Railways and Norfolk Southern.


ST 77 is a EMD GP9 repainted in August of 2011 into the Boston & Maine maroon and gold "Minuteman" paint scheme of the early 1950's.

Normally assigned to East Deerfield Yard in Massachusetts, this beautifully painted locomotive occasionally has traveled former B&M lines throughout Vermont and Massachusetts, but this photograph documents the very first trip into Connecticut on what did not become Boston & Maine until 1982.

Friday, August 15, 2014.

0924hrs.




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