BML#52, a General Electric B-B 140/140, 600HP Cooper-Bessemer powered 70-ton yard switcher (Builder's Number 30846) purchased new by the B&ML in May, 1951, sits forlornly facing down the main line track toward Burnham Junction as a silent exiled sentry just beyond the Pierce Street boundry of the B&MLRR's former main yard in Belfast, ME. After 135 years of operation from its namesake home city, the venerable 33-mile shortline railroad appears to have made its last run after being evicted by the City of Belfast in June, 2005, when it defaulted on its lease for the now City owned Water Street main yard that the road had occupied continuously since construction began on the line on August 4, 1868. RIP

Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), June 27, 2005.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 6, 2005.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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