This section of 75lb rail was laid down in the B&MLRR's main yard in Belfast, ME, more than a century ago by the MEC when that line operated the road under lease as its Belfast Branch from 1871 to December 31, 1925. The entire 33 miles of the B&ML's single track grade was rerailed prior to 1910 with similar rail all of which was rolled by the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Co between 1893 and 1906, and it is all still in use today. The section illustrated here is branded "L. I. &. S. Co. SW SCRANTON 8 96" indicating it was manufactured in the campany's steel works in Scranton, PA, in August, 1896. Rail dated after 1902 is branded as being rolled in Buffalo, NY, where L. I. & S. Co. moved it operations in that year.

Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July 9, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 27, 2004.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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