Look. Double-take. It's a boxcar. This one is dressed up in Pan-Am blue with the Pan-Am logo big as day on the side. Parked on a siding in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Pan-Am has been out of business since 1991.
And they .. had a railroad? Vertical integration used to be the thing. Why not? My imagination played a scene;
Her and her kin were sold to another carrier, repainted as a matter of course. She never found her way to a paint shop Lost in the shuffle. Nineteen years pass as the last Pan-Am liveried boxcar rolls and rattles around the United States. Guys in yards everywhere keep an eye out for her. When Pan Am rolls around it's a nice break in routine, something you tell your wife about after your shift is over.
The truth is not as exciting, I learned. A railroad company bought the naming rights to Pan-Am four years ago, is all.
Pan-Am has been out of business since 1991.
And they .. had a railroad? Vertical integration used to be the thing. Why not? My imagination played a scene;
Her and her kin were sold to another carrier, repainted as a matter of course. She never found her way to a paint shop Lost in the shuffle. Nineteen years pass as the last Pan-Am liveried boxcar rolls and rattles around the United States. Guys in yards everywhere keep an eye out for her. When Pan Am rolls around it's a nice break in routine, something you tell your wife about after your shift is over.
The truth is not as exciting, I learned. A railroad company bought the naming rights to Pan-Am four years ago, is all.
