A view of the B&MLRR grade approaching Unity, ME (MP 24.95) heading toward Burnham Junction. The turnout leads to the siding once used for pickups at the F.M. Leonard Potato Co. and the Turner Center Creamery (now an office building) which is still visable in the distance. Sitting on that track now are three out of service Maine Coast Railroad (1990-2000) chair cars, an ex-BAR refer, and BMS#16, a 1950's vintage 70-Ton GE yard switcher acquired (but never renumbered) by the B&ML and which is still in its original Berlin Mills Railway livery. This locomotive was kept for many years in the red single bay auxiliary enginehouse in Belfast. On June 9, 2005, it became the last piece of equipment to ever be turned on the 1870 vintage "Armstrong" turntable in the Belfast trainyard so that it could be towed from Belfast to Unity. (The turntable was removed a few days later.) Unfortunately, there is currently no freight or passenger service running on this venerable135 year old line.

Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July 12, 2005.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 14, 2005.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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