Other Maine Railroads
The Belfast and
Moosehead Lake Railroad's first diesel locomotive purchased
in 1946 General Electric 70 tonner number 50 poses on the
turntable at Belfast in the mid 1960s.
A more modern looking GE 70 tonner number 52 with it's twin
sealed beam headlights which was purchased by the BML in 1951
backs toward the Belfast engine house.
Canadian built Grand Trunk GP9 number 4448 rests betwween runs in
Portland. This is actually a rear view as these units were
normally operated long nose forward.
A Grand Trunk freight out of Portland stops at Danville Junction
to exchange cars with the Maine Central. This was a major
interchange point for the railroad.
Maine
Coast Railroad which operates the former Maine Central
Rockland branch purchased this Canadian built MLW M-420
locomotive second hand from the Providence and Worcester. The
unit is shown here working a tobacco warehouse along the line.
Thanks to Edwin Garrett for this fine photo.
A double-decked trolley enters the main line of the Seashore Trolley Museum
at Kennebunkport.
The typical road freight power on the Boston and Maine in the mid
1960s was three or four of the 1957 built "Bluebird"
1700 series GP9s as shown here arriving at Rigby yard in South
Portland.
Boston and Maine GP9s mingle with Maine Central GP7s in the
summer rain at Rigby yard.
In late 1977 the Boston and Maine purchased 18 EMD GP40-2
locomotives which introduced what was to be the final paint
scheme used by the B&M (in the early 1980s the white frame
stripes were eliminated). Here three of these units idle away a
rainy day at Rigby Yard in South Portland.
The Portland Terminal was a switching railroad which served Rigby
Yard and the Portland area and was jointly owned by the MEC and
B&M. Here an Alco S1 and S4 smoke it up at the Rigby engine
terminal.
The former Canadian Pacific trackage east of Brownville Junction
has been purchased by the Eastern Maine Railroad and is operated
by sister road the New Brunswick Southern using second hand GP9
and GP38 locomotives. Here a NBS train works the east end of the
yard at Brownville Junction.
Low nose GP9 number 3735 heads its train east out of Brownville
Junction after exchanging cars with the Bangor and Aroostook.
GP38-3 number 9801 leads two GP9s and another GP35 east out of
Brownville Junction.
GP38-3 number 9802 makes its early mornig arrival at Brownville
Junction from Eastern Canada on a very rainy day.