BML#31, a 1924 vintage ex-MEC steel body caboose bringing up the rear of a mid July Saturday morning westbound excursion run of the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR between City Point and Waldo, ME. It is following BML#3248 which was originally built in 1926 by the Pullman Co. as a commuter car for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The train is entering the B&ML's main line at MP 2.5 from the station house and sidings at the City Point Central Railroad Museum just outside of Belfast, ME, the seaport shiretown of mid-coast Maine's Waldo County through which the entire 33-mile grade of the B&ML runs. The 75lb rail seen in this picture is all branded as having been rolled in Buffalo, NY, in 1909. It was installed by the MEC while it was running the road under lease as its Belfast Branch between 1870 and 1926 to replace the original lighter "pear" rail imported from Wales that was laid when the road was built between 1867 and 1870.

Photographed by Bruce Cooper, July 19, 2014.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 19, 2014.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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