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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 ...
The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (operated as the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railway from 2009 to 2012) is a subsidiary of the Brooks Preservation Society (BPS), a not-for-profit organization established in 2008 to protect and preserve historic rail transportation infrastructure and assets located within Waldo County, Maine. [1]
Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad: BML MEC: 1868 2001 N/A Continues as a tourist railroad [1] Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railway: MEC: 1867 1868 Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad: Boston and Maine Corporation: BM B&M 1963 Still exists as a lessor of Pan Am Railways operating subsidiary Springfield Terminal Railway: Boston and Maine Railroad ...
Acquired from the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. This ex-Belfast and Moosehead Lake unit was the first engine for the Downeast Scenic and is the backup unit. This engine had the honors to pull the inaugural train on July 24, 2010. 53 Davenport Locomotive Works: 30-ton switcher 1949 Operational
Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (2009) D. Downeast Scenic Railroad; Downeaster (train) E. East Wind (train) G. The Gull; S. Silver Bullet Express; State of Maine ...
Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (1871–2007) Boston and Maine Railroad; C. Canadian National Railway; CSX Transportation; E. Eastern Maine Railway (1995) L.
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 ...
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 ...