This 1930's era coach is ex-MEC#947 which was later converted to a MoW car. It is now a part of the collection of historic rolling stock at the City Point Central Railroad Museum's private train yard which is located on a turnout from the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad's main line at City Point, ME, 2.16 miles out from Belfast, ME. The tankcar, boxcar, and the three cabooses on the left are all ex-MEC with the first two cabooses still in that road's livery while the third, B&ML#31, is now painted red. Just visible on the track beyond the cabooses is BML#51, one of the two 600HP, 70-ton GE locomotives that the B&ML bought new in December, 1946, for $53,000 each. (The other, BML#50, is still in service.) Almost two dozen pieces of ex-B&ML, MEC, and BAR rolling stock are parked on the two tracks (each about 2,000') in the CPC's five acre private train yard which 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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