[:)][:)] This afternoon I saw a NB CN train in Mattoon with a Pan Am boxcar. I had read about it/them, but never saw one before. It really stuck out amoung the ordinary everyday hoppers & boxcars. I got a couple of pics, but have to wait to fini***he roll before I get them developed.
Rob
Uniquely enough, I just saw my first Pan Am boxcar this evening as well., northeast bound on the NS former wabash line
The McGinnnis immage still shows its influence!
You suppose these cars haul jet engines and other commercial plane parts or lost and displaced luggage of recent passengers? [:)]
Doesn’t Guilford own the name of Pan Am? I thought I read that somewhere before.
I see them almost every day heading east on CN’s main line in Ontario. I’ve never seen one dirty or with any graffitti on them. They do stand out.
Sort of…
The Mellon Group which owns Guilford owns Pan Am, or what is sometimes referred to as Pan Am III (the original, the reorganization, and now). They run charter and schedule air from NH to FL and a few other places, a mere shadow of the original. Anyway, in an attempt get out from under the contract with the airline pilots, they reorganized the airline into Pan Am (operated by Boston& Maine Airways ) and hired new pilots. Apparently part of the ploy involves turning Pan Am into a railroad and B&M into an airline. I’m sure one of the lawyers here may have more insight, but being a privately held corporation, they don’t provide too many details on this sort of thing. Sort of what happened during the merger/re-org of BM / MEC / ST with the labor disputes and such. Some would say as a railroad and airline, they are doing what they need to do to make it, others would say they are anti-labor…depends on what side of the fence you’re on.
Dan
NO GRAFFITI??? Is the air division armed and flying cover for the boxcars?
Jay
Like I said, the only one I saw had grafitti on it, lol.