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BML 54 in the yard |
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Locomotive Roster Shots at City Point yard in Belfast. This photo was taken on the afternoon of July 18th 2014. The frog for a new switch is expected to be installed at this point this fall. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:20:45 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Roster |
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BML 53(70Tonner) |
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Early Morning with BML #50 in the yard |
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The locomotive is setting on the yard lead into City Point. The MEC box car is setting on the BML main at about MP 2.5. The main from this point into Belfast is expected to be taken up this Fall for a rail train which will terminat here, at City Point. This photo was taken on Aug 11th. /DL |
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8/11/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:20:46 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Roster |
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BML 50(70Tonner) |
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BML 109 headed for Waldo Tank |
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Headed east down the main for a day of spiking around Waldo Tank. /DL |
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7/12/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:21:29 AM |
| Location: |
Brooks, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Track |
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Driving Spikes |
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Gee that spiker is heavy but it sure beats a mall. Looking east, the heated water tank was at mid frame back in the days of steam. Waldo Station (just a run around today) is about a mile ahead. /DL |
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7/12/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:21:30 AM |
| Location: |
Waldo Tank, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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| Title: |
BML 31 |
| Description: |
This is the origional MEC RR Station from Corinna, Maine. It now contains the BML ticket office and small museum. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:22:11 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard |
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1880s B&M Baggage Car |
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It came from the B&M and was built in the 1880s. The B&ML aquired the car in 1927 and retired it in 1949 when it became a carpenter shop. It was located in the Belfast yard from the '60s into the 90s. This scene is of the work shop now in the LCL freight end of the car. There was a small RPO space just behind the camera. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:22:11 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard |
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| Title: |
Belfast Crossing Tenders Shanty |
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This building used to set beside the crossing at Pierce Street in Belfast. To put in perspective for folks over 60 that was the crossing at the eastern end of the old RT1 bridge coming into Belfast. The tender operated two manual gates to manage auto traffic over the crossing 'back in the day'. MEC used to build these in batches when the carpenter shop didn't have anything else to do. Since the MEC discontinued it's lease of the BML in the 1920s that places this building at or near 100 years old. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:22:12 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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| Title: |
BML 51 |
| Description: |
Locomotive Roster Shot at City Point yard in Belfast. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:22:13 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard |
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BML 51(70Tonner) |
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| Title: |
The 2 PM Train |
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Here is the 2 pm train headed west across Johnson Flat, so named for Johnson Stream which passes across it. There is a lot of cinder ballast on the BML as can be seen in this long view towards the east end of the 'flat'. The Whistle Post is for Fowler Hill Road just a couple hundred yards behind the train. /DL |
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7/19/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:25:58 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson Flat, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Track,Action |
| Locomotives: |
BML 50(70Tonner) |
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| Title: |
Johnson Stream Bridge |
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The rest of the photos in this short series were taken with a long lens from the field in the distance. In the next photo the 2pm train is about to cross this bridge headed west. /DL |
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7/19/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:26:00 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson Flat, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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| Title: |
The 2PM Westbound |
| Description: |
Here is the 2 pm train headed west across Johnson Flat about to pass over Johnson Stream. /DL |
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7/19/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:26:02 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson Flat, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Bridge,Track,Action |
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BML 50(70Tonner) |
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BML 3248 on the 2pm train |
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Here is the 2 pm train headed west across Johnson Flat and named for Johnson Stream. This car started its life from Pulman in 1925 under order #4837. It ran on the DL&W as DLW2248 from 1930 to 1961 as a motor car. The current #3248 comes from the Erie & Lackawanna from 1960 to 1976 then under Conrail to 1983. From 1983 it ran on New Jersey Transit. It ran on the Maine Coast RR in the 1990s before it ended up on the BML. A tip of the hat to Joe at the BML for the back ground. /DL |
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7/19/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:26:03 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson Flat, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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RollingStock,Action |
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| Title: |
BML 31 on the 2pm Train |
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Here is the 2 pm train headed west across Johnson Flat and named for Johnson Stream. Next stop Waldo Station just round the next bend. /DL |
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7/19/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:26:03 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson Flat, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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RollingStock,Action |
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| Title: |
The Points Will About Go Here |
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To establish a run around, two switches will be set up this fall. They were taken out of service at Unity just a few weeks ago. The frog for this switch will be about where #53 is now. The opposing switch's frog will be about where the outside braced box car is on the other track. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:27:43 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Yard,Track |
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| Title: |
Measuring the Curve |
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To know which size frog to use on a curve you've gott'a know what the curvature is. Take a 62 foot (Actually 61'8" according to Camp's "Notes on Track") string and strech it along the rail. The number of inches from the mid point of the string to the rail is the curvature in degrees. In this case we made 3 measurements and averaged them. /DL |
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7/18/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:27:44 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
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David Larrabee |
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Yard,Track |
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| Title: |
Put the 14 footer here |
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Excavation for ballast and leveling of the track is underway. In this scene relay switch timbers from Unity are being payed out in sequence. This process used, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 16 foot timbers. Some of this were very heavy. I'm sure glad the RR came across this hi-rail tie handler. /DL |
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8/11/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:27:44 AM |
| Location: |
City Point, ME |
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David Larrabee |
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| Title: |
HiRail |
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One of this summers projects was clearing growth on the eastern bridge abutment at "Upper Wescott." More growth was cleared shotrly after this series were taken. Here the track crew's hi-rail is clearing the main for the 2pm Train. /DL |
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8/3/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:31:00 AM |
| Location: |
Wescott Upper, Waldo, ME |
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David Larrabee |
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Bridge,Track,Action |
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| Title: |
The 2 PM Train Westbound |
| Description: |
One of this summers projects was clearing growth on the eastern bridge abutment at Upper Wescott. /DL |
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8/3/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:31:01 AM |
| Location: |
Wescott Upper, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Bridge,Track,Action |
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BML 50(70Tonner) |
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| Title: |
BML 3248 westbound |
| Description: |
Finis for this year's perspective. If you love trains working at 1:1 scale is interesting & fun. /DL |
| Photo Date: |
8/3/2014 Upload Date: 8/16/2014 11:31:02 AM |
| Location: |
Wescott Upper, Waldo, ME |
| Author: |
David Larrabee |
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Bridge,Track,Action |
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