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Pan Am 610 leads symbol freight POED west at the Groton-Harvard Road crossing near Flannagan\u2019s in Ayer, Massachusetts on the afternoon of January 17, 2013. Exposed with my Canon 7D with 28-135mm lens, set at 135mm; 200 ISO f8.0 1\/500th; in camera Jpg, no adjustments except for scaling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday (January 17, 2013), Rich Reed and I spent a productive day photographing along the old Boston & Maine. B&M to Pan Am: a traditional New England road, Boston & Maine was melded in to Guilford Transportation Industries<\/a> in 1982. Guilford acquired the rights to Pan American Airways in 1998, and during 2005-2006 the railroad became known as Pan Am Railways<\/a>. In 2008, the railway engaged in a joint venture with Norfolk Southern involving the former Boston & Maine route (now coined the \u2018Patriot Corridor\u2019) between greater Albany, New York and suburban Boston. As a result, Norfolk Southern locomotives are usual assigned to intermodal and automotive traffic operating over the old B&M route; in addition Pan Am operates a pair of through freights in conjunction with CSX between Portland, Maine and CSX\u2019s Selkirk, New York yard (Pan-Am\u2019s symbols SEPO\/POSE; CSX\u2019s Q426\/Q427). These typically operate with CSX locomotives. Other traffic includes, coal trains originating on Providence & Worcester and traveling north via Pan Am rails to Bow, New Hampshire which run with P&W\u2019s locomotives. Pan Am runs a few trains with its own locomotives; however while a number of Pan Am\u2019s locomotives have been painted for the railroad, a good number of older locomotives still serve the railroad in Guilford paint.<\/p>\n

The long and short of this essay is that lately, I\u2019ve found it challenging to photograph Pan Am painted locomotives hauling trains on their own line, since the predominance of daylight traffic tends to feature locomotives from other lines. Yesterday, we caught six symbol freights, one of which was the westward POED (Portland, Maine to East Deerfield, Massachusetts), which was led by Pan Railways 610, a former Southern Pacific SD45 rebuilt to SD40-2 specs. Pan Am on Pan Am<\/b>! Yea!<\/p>\n

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Pan Am 610 with POED at Shirley, Massachusetts. Canon 7D with 28-135mm lens, set at 33mm; 200 ISO f7.0 1\/500th. Photo scaled from in-camera JPG file; compare this image with adjusted RAW file below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pan Am 610 with POED at Shirley; this is a camera RAW image, adjusted using Photoshop to compensate for exposure (specifically to better retain detail in the snow, sky, and shadow areas), with nominal adjustments in color balance and edge sharpening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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