BAR Mack Point Yard car scales, Searsport, ME (Composited Digital Image)This view of the then Bangor & Aroostook (now Montreal, Maine, & Atlantic Railway) Mack Point yard in Searsport, ME, is actually a digitally composited image. I took the original photograph a little after Noon on a bright, hot, and quite hazy day in early July, 2001. To make the image more interesting and dramatic, however, I replaced the original, basically blank sky with an image of a sunset sky that I took a week earlier in nearby Belfast, ME, right after the passage of a large thunderstorm. I then modified the overall tones of this composited image to match the hues of the sky as well as adding a "reflection" of those colors to the side of the hopper car. The "SEARSPORT" sign on the small brick scales house was also digitally created and does not actually exist. Long the location of the BAR's MP 0.0 as the southern most point on its system, Mack Point is a deepwater port located on the Penobscot Bay. (The BAR, then in bankruptcy, was acquired by and became a part of the newly created MMA in 2003.)
Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July, 2001.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, June 1, 2004.
Railroad: Bangor and Aroostook.
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