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Viewing Album:  Belfast & Moosehead Lake – 2005
 
By:David Larrabee
Dates:8/2/2005 - 8/2/2005
Album Info:For students of the BML.... This series is a short overview of a walk on a clear sunny Maine summer moring from end of track on the Belfast waterfront to City Point covering the eastern 2.5 miles of railroad. The downtown yard is largely gone now. The turntable is gone and most of the rolling stock has left town. BML #52 will meet with the torch in just a few weeks. /DL
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BML in town
Title:  BML in town
Description:  This scene, looking westbound, is looking thru what today is a town park adjacent to the public dock and boat landing. To the left of the track was a mill that processed feed for the local broiler industry until it went out of business about 1980. The last customer on this part of the line was Mathews Brothers just behind the camera, which took loads of lumber for their window & shash mill. Some where I have a VHS tape of a 70 tonner pushing a box car of lumber over this track taken about 1981. The MP here is about -0.3 beyond MP 0 which is (or was) in the yard just 'round the bend. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:06:58 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Freight House
Title:  Freight House
Description:  The freight house is to the left and main line is in center frame. MP -0.1 As of 1912 the area where the autos are parked is occupied by a large boat yard with a large travel lift and related dockage. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:02 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Freight House
Title:  Freight House
Description:  Looking eastbound. There must'a been a lot of LCL business back in the day. Last I knew this building was being used as a community theater. C2015 this building was slated for demolation by the City of Belfast. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:05 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Station & Freight House
Title:  Station & Freight House
Description:  This is the other side of the freight house. The 2 story portion was the RR office and station in the post passenger period. Tracks used to occupy the area where the deck is now. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:08 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Yard
Title:  Yard
Description:  The turntable in the photos taken last year was in front of the 2 bay engine house at center frame. That was taken out just a month or two before this photograph was taken. The red building was a 1 stall building added later. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:10 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Looking westbound
Title:  Looking westbound
Description:  This is very close to MP0. The freigth house is behind the camera a couple hundred feet. The box car has been resident here for quite a while. C2010 the BoxCar went to the DownEast Scenic where it is used as an office and tool storage at Washington Jct. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:13 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Looking west
Title:  Looking west
Description:  #52 is in the distance setting on the main line. It has just days before it meets it's end... The box car now resides at Washington Jct. on the Downeast Scenic. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:16 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Yard
Title:  Yard
Description:  In last years photo series a passenger train was setting on this track waiting for the track cars to get out of town. Trackage to the turn table is gone as is the run around. This track was taken up shortly after these photos were taken. 2 bay round house is center frame. C2015 this area is all a large boat yard with travel live and related dock facilities. A huge vessel service structure stands in this area. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:19 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Looking west
Title:  Looking west
Description:  The track today ends just under the Rt1 bridge. The camera is beside the boxcar. The buildings to the left and right are the old Stinson Cannery. In 2012 this area is a large boat yard and the track ends just under the Rt1 Bridge. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:22 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Looking east into the yard
Title:  Looking east into the yard
Description:  Remains of the BML yard. When the RR was built this was all mud flats. A cause way was built for this track. Penobscot bay is to the left and a tidle pond was to the right between the causeway and high ground. That area was gradually filled in and the yard expanded onto it.
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:07:26 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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BML 52
Title:  BML 52
Description:  As I recall this locomotive met it's demise on this spot just a week or two after this photograph was taken. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:07 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  BML 52(70Tonner)
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BML 52
Title:  BML 52
Description:  The scrapper's final visit is just days away... /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:10 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  BML 52(70Tonner)
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BML 52
Title:  BML 52
Description:  Looking eastbound back towards the yard. Main Street is in the distance. Penobscot Frozen Foods is to the right. It was common for the RR to have to hold trains along here while someone went looking for the drivers to move parked cars that intruded on the right of way. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:13 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  BML 52(70Tonner)
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BML 52 last scene
Title:  BML 52 last scene
Description:  Looking eastbound at MP 0.3 The camera is close to end of track c2012.
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:15 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  BML 52(70Tonner)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Looking west
Title:  Looking west
Description:  The whistle post to the left is for old Rt1 for eastbound trains.
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:19 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Yard Limit
Title:  Yard Limit
Description:  MP0.5 eastbound
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:23 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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The BeaverTail looking west
Title:  The BeaverTail looking west
Description:  This location was a favorite location for photographs in the old days. The camera is standing on the old City right of way to the origional wooden bridge over the 'Passy'. MP 1 is just a couple'a hundred feet behind the camera. Today this is the boarding area for BML passenger operations and there is a small platform at this vantage point. C2013 the BML has a passenger platform here and loaded passengers. C2015 the rail was taken up and it was turned into a walking/bike trail by the City of Belfast. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:26 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Flanger Warning
Title:  Flanger Warning
Description:  Crossing ahead, rise the flanger. On the MEC this sign was yellow on a 45 degree angle with 2 black dots.
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:29 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Beaver tail looking east
Title:  Beaver tail looking east
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:08:32 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Site of the Corn Wreck near MP1.5
Title:  Site of the Corn Wreck near MP1.5
Description:  The corn wreck happened here in 1977 when the track gave way during the spring thaw. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:22 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Approaching MP2
Title:  Approaching MP2
Description:  There are 35 odd crossings on the BML, so there were 70 odd flanger warning signs along the line. Both here are new and guard a private Xing. The bridge over the "Passy" is just 'round the bend. We're looking westbound.
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:25 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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MP2
Title:  MP2
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:28 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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MP2
Title:  MP2
Description:  Westbound. In 2012 the MP2 sign has a fresh coat of paint and the rails have a shine. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:33 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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High Tide looking across the 'Passey'
Title:  High Tide looking across the 'Passey'
Description:  The most popular photo opp on the RR is shot from Kendall Road on the left looking up onto the bridge. There used to be a switch just across the bridge where oil tank cars were spotted for gravety discharge into tanks for Wade & Hurd. It is all grown up now, but not all that many years ago the roadside turn off & tanks were clearly visible. C2015 the tracks were taken up and this was tuned into a walking/bike bridge & trail. The City Point station is 1/4 mile or so ahead on the left. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:36 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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West Switch
Title:  West Switch
Description:  At MP2.2 looking west at the Oak Hill Xing. Whistle Post is to the right in the bushes. The City Point Station used to be here and the camera is just about where the west switch for a siding was. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:39 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Flanger Warning for City Point Switch
Title:  Flanger Warning for City Point Switch
Description:  The siding leads off to the City Point Central a private RR collection and the subject of another folder. This is about MP2.5. /DL
Photo Date:  8/2/2005  Upload Date: 9/29/2012 11:09:42 PM
Location:  Belfast, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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