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Viewing Album:  Belfast & Moosehead Lake – 2012
 
By:David Larrabee
Dates:7/20/2012 - 8/10/2012
Album Info:I worked on the track gang on the BML this past summer. This RR is in class II from end to end with sectons at class III. The RR currently runs summer passenger traffic on weekends from 'Upper Bridge' in Belfast to Waldo Station & back with two trains handleing overflow service to the Common Ground Fair in early October. /DL
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Station
Title:  Station
Description:  Have you ever read The Maine Two Footers? It was written in this station. Linwood Moody was dispatcher for the BML at the time and wrote the draft between dispatching and handleing LCL freight. The building is in splended condition having just gotten a fresh coat of paint... ((I wounder how many it has had applied over the years?)) /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:34:07 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Station
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Station
Title:  Station
Description:  Have you ever read The Maine Two Footers? It was written in this station. Linwood Moody was dispatcher for the BML at the time and wrote the draft between dispatching and handleing LCL freight. The building is in splended condition having just gotten a fresh coat of paint... ((I wounder how many it has had applied over the years?)) /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:34:17 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Station
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Station
Title:  Station
Description:  Have you ever read The Maine Two Footers? It was written in this station. Linwood Moody was dispatcher for the BML at the time and wrote the draft between dispatching and handleing LCL freight. The building is in splended condition having just gotten a fresh coat of paint... ((I wounder how many it has had applied over the years?)) /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:34:27 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Station
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Station
Title:  Station
Description:  Have you ever read The Maine Two Footers? It was written in this station. Linwood Moody was dispatcher for the BML at the time and wrote the draft between dispatching and handleing LCL freight. The building is in splended condition having just gotten a fresh coat of paint... ((I wounder how many it has had applied over the years?)) /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:34:32 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Station
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Station
Title:  Station
Description:  Have you ever read The Maine Two Footers? It was written in this station. Linwood Moody was dispatcher for the BML at the time and wrote the draft between dispatching and handleing LCL freight. The building is in splended condition having just gotten a fresh coat of paint... ((I wounder how many it has had applied over the years?)) /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:34:37 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Station
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BML 109
Title:  BML 109
Description:  Behind the camera is the south switch for the Y into the Junction Yard with Pan Am. The bridge crosses the Sebasricook River. /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:36:19 PM
Location:  Burnham Junction, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Point Guard
Title:  Point Guard
Description:  South or Timetable East Switch point for the Y at the Junction. /DL
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:36:28 PM
Location:  Burnham Junction, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Cleaning the Flanges
Title:  Cleaning the Flanges
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:36:35 PM
Location:  Unity, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Looking east
Title:  Looking east
Description:  This is Waldo Tank. The foundation to the left once held an enclosed - heated in the winter - water tank. Not really visible in this scene is the Xing for 'Tank Stream Road' in the distance. MP B-8 is just a few feet behind the camera. /DL
Photo Date:  7/24/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:47:36 PM
Location:  Waldo Tank, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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The Bog
Title:  The Bog
Description:  If I'm keeping my geography properly aligned this is just east of MP B-9. The hi-rail is crossing a large bog. The RR had problems for years with the track settling here. The original RR was built on a corduroy foundation of logs sunk into the bog then covered with ballast. The logs are still there and as long as they stay underwater they'll remain solid. The settling problem was solved by removing the old cinder ballast and placing 12 foot ties over crushed stone ballast. The RR did this work itself with a 40 man work crew about 1970. /DL
Photo Date:  7/24/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:47:41 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Shims
Title:  Shims
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:22 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Run 'round
Title:  Run 'round
Description:  The passing siding at Waldo Station looking eastbound towards Belfast. Flang marker beyond the mile marker. Good 'ole cinder ballast. None of your sissy curshed stone here...! /DL
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:28 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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A Webber
Title:  A Webber
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:32 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Bolted Frog
Title:  Bolted Frog
Description:  At the East Switch.
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:37 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Start here
Title:  Start here
Description:  At the bottom of this frame is a cement marker in the middle of the track. The MEC placed these at the start of each curve for reference. Maine Winters push these things around and they tend to rise up a little from year to year. I have never seen one that hasn't had the top pounded with a sledge so it won't hit on a traction motor. The Whistle Post is for Rt 131 on behind the camera. /DL
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:40 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Mile Post B7
Title:  Mile Post B7
Description:  Looking westbound. Waldo Tank is a mile ahead. The mile markers are from the yard in Belfast.... /DL
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 10:49:45 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Whistle Posts
Title:  Whistle Posts
Description:  Right out of the Paint Shop...
Photo Date:  7/31/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:11:36 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Views:  131   Comments: 0
Whistle Posts
Title:  Whistle Posts
Description:  Right out of the Paint Shop...
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:11:41 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Whistle Post
Title:  Whistle Post
Description:  Right out of the Paint Shop... This location is exactly, well almost exactly, 950 feet from the Rt220 Xing, 950 feet being the specified distance between a Xing and a Whistle Post in these parts. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:11:46 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Littlefield Road Xing in the distance
Title:  Littlefield Road Xing in the distance
Description:  It is rather hard to take a RR photograph in Monroe Maine, as there is only about 500 feet of track on which such a claim can be made. This scene is taken at the Monroe / Brooks town line. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:13:53 PM
Location:  Monroe, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Hall Hill Road Xing
Title:  Hall Hill Road Xing
Description:  It is rather hard to take a RR photograph in Monroe Maine, as there is only about 500 feet in which such a claim can be made. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:13:58 PM
Location:  Monroe, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Beavers again
Title:  Beavers again
Description:  It is rather hard to take a RR photograph in Monroe Maine, as there is only about 500 feet in which such a claim can be made. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:14:02 PM
Location:  Monroe, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Stone Arch Culvert
Title:  Stone Arch Culvert
Description:  There are two of these large stone arch culverts on the BML. They are gems, still in excellent condition over 150 after being built.
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:27:06 PM
Location:  Brooks, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge
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Box 'n Arch together
Title:  Box 'n Arch together
Description:  The MEC leased and operated over the BML for 40 or 50 years. Their engineering folks said they'd never heard of a stone arch and box culvert paired together in the same structure anywhere.... Can anyone challenge this statement?? /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:27:10 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge
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Like the sign says
Title:  Like the sign says
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:25 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Westbound
Title:  Westbound
Description:  The BML kept a 70 toner in this building at the end of the freight era as most of the traffic was on the west end of the system between Burnham Jct and the grain mill here in Thorndike. The cars are peddle powered track cars you can rent for a few dollars. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:32 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  178   Comments: 1
MEC MW969
Title:  MEC MW969
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:36 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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MEC mw948
Title:  MEC mw948
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:39 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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BML 48
Title:  BML 48
Description:  Looking eastbound in the Thorndike Yard. The silos and sidings in the distance served the grain mill that was the RRs largest customer in the post WWII era until they closed in the 80s.
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:43 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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BML 48
Title:  BML 48
Description:  Seen better days.... Built in 1909 as I recall.
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:47 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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BML 48
Title:  BML 48
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:50 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  160   Comments: 0
The cutting edge
Title:  The cutting edge
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:54 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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BML 48
Title:  BML 48
Description:  Note the bearing inspection & oiling doors. It must have been difficult for the oiler to get in there. I bet he had to shovel snow out of the way to do it too. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 11/3/2012 11:32:57 PM
Location:  Thorndike, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
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BML 50
Title:  BML 50
Description:  At the City Point Central just off the BMLs east end. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/22/2014 7:57:02 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
Views:  245   Comments: 1
BML 53
Title:  BML 53
Description:  At the City Point Central just off the BMLs east end. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/22/2014 7:57:06 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:  BML 53(70Tonner)
Views:  353   Comments: 0
MEC 640
Title:  MEC 640
Description:  At the City Point Central just off the BMLs east end. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/22/2014 7:57:10 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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BML 51
Title:  BML 51
Description:  At the City Point Central just off the BMLs east end. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/22/2014 7:57:14 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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MEC 731
Title:  MEC 731
Description:  At the City Point Central just off the BMLs east end. This car may have once been SCHX 41505 if I decode the old paint properly. /DL
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 4/22/2014 7:57:18 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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