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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]
The rail line that passes through Brooks was built in 1870 as part of a project by the city of Belfast to develop a railroad serving the Canadian province of Quebec. Conceived as the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad, the tracks were built by the Maine Central Railroad (MEC) to connect Belfast to coastal communities further south. The MEC ...
Milepost 95.5: Burnham Junction with the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad which was leased as the Maine Central Belfast branch from 1871 to 1925. [2] Milepost 102.5: Pittsfield junction with the Sebasticook and Moosehead Railroad built in 1886 and leased as the Maine Central Harmony branch in 1910. [1] Sebasticook River bridge [4]
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 ...
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
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 ...