BML #50 rolls into the enginhouse at BelfastBML #50, the line's original 70-Ton GE deisel-electric locomotive purchased new in November, 1946, rolls off the 1870 vintage "Armstrong" turntable as it is put away for the night in the Belfast yard's enginehouse after pulling Eastbound TR #30 from Waldo, ME, back to Belfast on the rainy afternoon of July 8, 2004. General Electric built 238 of these B-B 140/140, 600HP Cooper-Bessemer powered 70-ton yard switchers between 1946 and 1958 at its shops in Erie, PA. BML#50 is a model GE 70T III-A1 (Builder's Number 28567). After more than 135 years in place, this venerable turntable was removed in June, 2005, and the pit filled in when the B&ML defaulted on its lease of the yard and was evicted by the City of Belfast. RIP
Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July 8, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 8, 2004.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.
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