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Viewing Album:  Belfast & Moosehead Lake – 2004
 
By:David Larrabee
Dates:8/21/2004 - 8/21/2004
Album Info:My visit to the BML this year was in the form of a track car ride over the span of the railroad. We suffered under rainy skys most of the day. The track cars put on at Unity and ran east to Belfast for lunch and a turn 'round on the table. For a few years into the mid 2000s The BML ran passenger trains on both ends of the RR. Steam between Unity and Burnham Jct and diesel on the eastern end between Belfast & Waldo Station with some trains going as far as Brooks. The line was servicable between Brooks & Unity but under slow orders and infrequently used. /DL History overview of the BML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad Link to current passenger operations on the BML: http://brookspreservation.org/belfast_moosehead_lake_railway_excursions.shtml
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On the turntable
Title:  On the turntable
Description:  BML Yard at Unity, Me. The red building at the right is a new 2 track engine house. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:50:55 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
BML 1149
Title:  BML 1149
Description:  BML Yard at Unity, Me. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:50:57 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
BML 1149 getting up steam
Title:  BML 1149 getting up steam
Description:  #1149 is getting up steam. It will run west to Burnham Jct after the track car group departs east for Belfast. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:51:02 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
BML 1149
Title:  BML 1149
Description:  BML Yard at Unity, Me. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:51:06 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
BML 1149 Builders Plate
Title:  BML 1149 Builders Plate
Description:  The fine print.... The story I heard at the time was that this train - engine, and passenger cars - were mothballed at the end of WWII for emergency operations on the Swedish State Railways incase of a major fuel disruption makine coal fired operation necessary. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:51:11 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
BML 1149
Title:  BML 1149
Description:  Appliances on the back of 1149's tender. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:51:13 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
BML 1149
Title:  BML 1149
Description:  Track cars have assembled. They'll back on to the main and head east towards Belfast in a bit. BML Yard at Unity, Me. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:51:16 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Steam,Track
Locomotives:  BML 1149(4-6-0)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
Runaround
Title:  Runaround
Description:  During passenger operations at this time the RR staged a gun fight at Waldo Station for the trains out of Belfast. As a train was following out track car parade the bad guys on their horses were hiding in the woods near by waiting to hold up the train... /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:55:51 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
Arriving
Title:  Arriving
Description:  Too bad the WX wasnt better for this series. At least it wasnt a down pour while we turned on the table. The early afternoon train is loading and #54 is idling. 2 bay engine house is behind the RDC. Penobscot Bay is to the left. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:57:32 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BML 54(70Tonner)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Yard & Turn Table
Title:  Yard & Turn Table
Description:  The car I road on was the MEC Fairmont #1152. I don't know much about the Budd RDC. It was only active 1 or 2 summers. Any additional info would be appreciated.... /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:57:35 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BML 52(70Tonner) BML 6126(RDC1)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
Yard & Turn Table
Title:  Yard & Turn Table
Description:  The Arm Strong Table was easy to turn with the light load. Old Freight House is to the left. The Passenger Station 'back in the day' was just beyond the turn table. To day the table is gone. 2 stall Round house is behind the camera. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:57:39 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard
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Turntable
Title:  Turntable
Description:  The 1 stall engine house is quite new, build in the 70s I belive. /DL
Photo Date:  8/21/2004  Upload Date: 9/24/2012 9:57:42 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  94   Comments: 0

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