The City Point Central Railroad Museum is located on a private turnout from the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad's main line (left) at City Point, ME, at MP 2.16 out from Belfast. The historic station house (background), 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 stainless steel coach visible parked by the station is MEC#391, a stainless steel chair/cafe car previously operated by both the New York Central (ex-NYC#3011) and Amtrak (ex-AMTRAK#3951) which was built by the Pullman Co. in the 1950's. The CPC, which also includes almost two dozen pieces of ex-B&ML, MEC, and BAR rolling stock parked on the two tracks (each about 2,000') in its five acre private train yard, is the remarkable creation of veteran railroadman Mack Page, Sr., who was the fourth generation of his family to work on the B&ML.

Photographed by Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com), July 16, 2005.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 25, 2005.
Railroad: City Point Central Railroad Museum.

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