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The Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad (reporting mark BML) was a standard-gauge shortline railroad that operated from 1871 to 2007 over a single-track grade from Belfast to Burnham Junction in Maine. Chartered in 1867, the line was built between August 1868 and December 1870 by the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad Company (B&MLRR), which was ...
Following the announcement in February 2008 of the formal demise of the original 1867-chartered Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad Company (1871–2007) by its then-private not-for-profit operator, the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad & Preservation Society based in Unity, Maine, the BPS was incorporated as an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to purchase the MEC-built 1892 B ...
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Bangor and Orono Railroad: MEC: 1847 1850 Penobscot Railroad: Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad: BAR: 1861 1899 Bangor and Aroostook Railroad: Bangor and Piscataquis Canal and Railroad Company: MEC: 1833 1855 Bangor, Oldtown and Milford Railroad: Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad: BML MEC: 1868 2001 N/A Continues as a tourist railroad [1 ...
Portland #8 was a 19-ton 0-4-4 T Forney built for the Bridgton & Saco River Railroad in 1892 and Portland #9 was an 18-ton 0-4-4 T Forney built for the Sandy River Railroad in 1891. The Wiscasset car shop completed a number of rebuilding projects starting with the conversion of six of the original flatcars to boxcars during the first year of ...
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake was incorporated on February 28, 1867, under the name of Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railway Company, and had no other predecessors. It was incorporated under the private laws of the State of Maine, for the purpose of building a railroad between Belfast and Moosehead Lake, Me., about 100 miles, with the exception of the distance between Newport and Dexter, the ...
The Maine Central Railroad (reporting mark MEC) was a U. S. class 1 railroad [2] in central and southern Maine. It was chartered in 1856 and began operations in 1862. By 1884, Maine Central was the longest railroad in New England. Maine Central had expanded to 1,358 miles (2,185 km) when the United States Railroad Administration assumed control ...
The Belfast rail yard in 1875; MEC-built station house c. 1880. A county-wide connection to the main line of the Maine Central Railroad at Burnham, 33 miles (53 km) inland from Belfast, was established by the largely city-owned Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad with its opening in 1871. For the first 55 years the line was operated under lease ...