Maine Central
Maine Central GP7 569, which was delivered in 1953, leads two
other GP7's and an one of MEC's two F3B's through Detroit with a
freight for Portland in the summer of 1964.
A Portland bound freight departs Danville Junction after working
the interchange with the Grand Trunk Railway in1964. Number 684
is a late model F3A and the GP7 behind it is still in it's as
delivered Boston & Maine inspired maroon and yellow paint.
A short local freight holds the main line at Northern Maine
Junction in Hermon while it waits for connecting cars from the
Bangor and Aroostook. It's caboose is typical of MEC's World War
I era plywood-sheathed cars.
An F3 A and B unit lead a freight from Portland into Bangor yard
in 1965. The F units were traded in on GP38 locomotives a year or
so later.
E7 number 708 waits to depart Bangor with the mail train which
ran for a few years between Bangor and Portland after the end of
passenger service.
Number 801, one of only two Alco RS-11's owned by the Maine
Central, idles between runs at the Bangor engine house.
Ex Rock Island General Electric U25B number 226 dirties it's
fresh Maine Central paint with a plume of black smoke as it pulls
up the Bangor yard lead track. Number 226 was the first of the
Rock Island units to be repainted in full Maine Central colors.
GP7 number 573 trails a U18B and another GP7 as the power off a
train from Portland pulls up the Bangor yard switch lead after
dropping it's train in the yard. MEC 573 sports a one-of-a-kind
"reverse" paint scheme while the other two units are
painted in the standard scheme of the 1970's.
General Electric U18B number 406 painted in Guilford colors is
the lead unit on a freight about to depart Bangor for Portland.
Sister unit 401 in the shadows behind still wears it's original
Maine Central paint.
GP7 Number 591 which was purchased second hand from the
Louisville and Nashville and rebuilt at MEC's Waterville Shops is
on the ready track at the Bangor engine house.
Caboose number 650 brings up the rear of a Bangor to Matawamkeag
freight as it leaves Bangor yard. This caboose is one of five
which were custom built by the railroad on the underframes of old
passenger train head end cars.
Another home built caboose waits for it's train to make a late
winter afternoon departure from Bangor yard. Today a single main
line track is all that remains of this once busy little yard.