The City Point Central Railroad Museum is located on a turnout from the B&ML main line (by the Oak Hill Road grade crossing) at City Point, ME, at MP 2.16 inland from Belfast. The historic station house, built by the Maine Central in the early 1870's, came from Corinna, ME, on the MEC's now abandoned Dover Foxcroft Branch where it served for many years as the passenger station and later as a freight office after passenger service ended. The section house (foreground) came from Brooks, ME, about ten miles further out the B&ML grade. The red wooden caboose on the station track is CPC#606 (ex-MEC#606) which was built by the Maine Central in 1914. The dark green wooden car (ex-MEC MW#990) on the track next to it is was built in the 1920's as a boxcar but was later converted by the MEC to a MOW car. The museum collection includes some twenty pieces of ex-B&ML, MEC, and BAR rolling stock parked on the two tracks in its private train yard. The museum is the remarkable creation of veteran railroader Mack Page, Sr., who was the fourth generation of his family to work on the B&ML. CPC restorer and master carpenter Roger Pierce is seen standing on the platform next to the station house. (NOTE: Additional images of this Museum are posted in this archive under "City Point Central Railroad Museum.")

Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July 18, 2005.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 19, 2005.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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