User talk:User7998
Portland Terminal Company[edit]
I took the photo you mentioned on my talk page. I was on leave from the military during the Vietnam War and had a few days to spend with my family in Windham. One day when the weather was nice I took my camera to Portland to get a few photos of the old ALCO high-hood switchers. I started at the Grand Trunk yard and walked along the tracks down Commercial Street to the wye on the main line between Rigby Yard and Union Station. Portland Terminal Company was fairly relaxed about railfans in those days, but I stayed away from Rigby Yard. In those days one of the 600-horsepower ALCO switchers was usually working somewhere along Commercial Street, and that day I was lucky to find both numbers 1003 and 1004. I always found the Portland Terminal employees very friendly, but I tried to keep out of the way and not distract them from their work. I didn't know the crew in the photo, and I don't recall even speaking to them when the photo was taken. Thewellman (talk) 03:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)