For sixty-five years, these now forlorn rusty steel rails were embedded in the concrete floor 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, as well as to replace the road's original three bay engine house which had previously serviced its small fleet of steam engines. (Of those two 1946 diesel locomotives, #51 is retired and on display at the nearby City Point Central Railroad Museum while #50 is still in active service on the line.) From 1870 until the demolition of the 1946 structure on June 21, 2011, an engine house had stood a few yards from where these sticks of rail were lying on the ground awaiting disposal. That site will be occupied by 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 waterfront plot of land which served as the B&MLRR's main yard and location of its MP 0.0 for 135 years. (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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