One month after the demolition of the B&MLRR's two bay engine house built in 1946 for the two new GE 70-Ton diesel electric locomotives the railroad purchased in November of that year, its site in the railroad's former main yard on the Belfast waterfront has been replaced by the foundations of a 26,500 sq ft, five story boat building and repair facility being constructed as part of the new Front Street Shipyard which now occupies the plot of land that served the BML from 1870 to 2005. The red cinder block structure on the right is a single bay engine house now used for storage while the all red building visible in the distance is the railroad's former freight house which has been a community theater for the past two decades. It too is expected to be demolished when the theater company, the Belfast Maskers, moves to a new home in 2012 because of the deteriorating condition of the building. (Nine images of the actual demolition of the engine house, posted on June 21, 2011, are included in the images of the B&ML in this archive.)

Photographed by Bruce Cooper, July 20, 2011.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 20, 2011.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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