From Reid Cunningham: "Apologies for not getting closer, but the crew was working and I didn't want to interrupt or get in their way. A crew cab Chevrolet that was actually carrying a work crew, configured for rail mode. Usually I see these on the road, it was a treat to see it on the tracks. If you look closely, it's Pan Am Railways, with the same logo as the old Pan Am airlines.
#A quick online search (Wikipedia was much better for this than the railroad's website) shows this is a New England rail company, Maine to NY originally ned Guilford. It seems to have not been a successful railroad, and bought the Pan Am trademarks in 1998 and rebranded itself. While rail traffic has doubled, it has shrank. It's now up for sale if you want to have your own railroad!
"Sighted in Manchester NH, near the old textile mills downtown. The mills have all been restored and house Southern New Hampshire University, start ups, some restaurants and businesses. Intellectual property produced at the mills doesn't require a railroad for haulage."
AL: the wiki link is a good introduction to the impossibly tangled history of corporate shenanigans around railroading in New England. It reminds me of something my grandfather JJ O'O'Brien said--"Nearly impossible to make money operating railroads. The money was in building them."
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