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By:David Larrabee
Dates:7/1/2015 - 8/30/2015
Album Info:Here are a few random scenes of my ramblings around the B&ML this summer. My focus was track work with a few hours of train watching thrown in... /DL
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Looking east.
Title:  Looking east.
Description:  Looking eastbound across the west switch from Winnecook Road at the team track siding. /DL
Photo Date:  7/10/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 10:46:06 PM
Location:  Winnecook, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Looking east
Title:  Looking east
Description:  Early morning at City Point. The main line east of City Point into Belfast has been taken up. /DL
Photo Date:  7/11/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 10:41:29 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
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Looking east
Title:  Looking east
Description:  Early morning at City Point. The main line east of City Point into Belfast has been taken up. The bridge over the 'Passy' and the Beaver Tail are now part of a walking tail. /DL
Photo Date:  7/11/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 10:41:34 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
New Crossover
Title:  New Crossover
Description:  The primary track project this summer was a new cross-over providing a run-around at the city point yard. It was an interesting job, both switches were on curved track. /DL
Photo Date:  7/27/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:05:19 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Yard,Track
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B&MLs Flanger
Title:  B&MLs Flanger
Description:  I came across the B&ML flanger in the yard at City Point this summer. The flanger components came from the St. Georges Valley RR sometime in the 50s. BML installed the device on a fcat car with limited success. After a season to two the components were sent to BAR’s Derby shop where it was installed in a BAR fertilizer car and thence returned to!the BML. The fertilizer car was an essigned car when in service on the BAR running between The County and Searsport. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2015  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 4:24:22 PM
Location:  Andover, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock
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B&MLs Flanger
Title:  B&MLs Flanger
Description:  The flanger components came from the St. Georges Valley RR sometime in the 50s. BML installed the gewice on a flat car with limited success. After a season to two the components were sent to BAR’s Derby shop where it was installed in a BAR fertilizer car and thence returned to the BML. The fertilizer car was an as}igned car when in service on the BAR running between The County and Sefrsport. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2015  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 4:24:25 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock
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Flanger #23
Title:  Flanger #23
Description:  I came across the B&ML flanger/in the yard at City Point this summer. The flanger components came.from the St. Georges Valley RR sometime in the 50s. BML installed the device on a flat car with limited succesq. After a season to two the components were sent to BAR’s Derby shop where it was installed in a BAR fertilizer car and thence returned to the BML. The fertilizer car was an assidned car when in service on the BAR running between The County and Searsport. /DL
Photo Date:  8/7/2015  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 4:24:19 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock
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The 11 AM Train
Title:  The 11 AM Train
Description:  Sargents (located in the town of Waldo) on the B&ML was once the location of a passing siding and junction with the 2 mile Quarry Hill Branch which was taken up aboout 1910. Mile Post 5B is located about 2/10ths of a mile to the east (to the left in this photo) and the sidings east switch was about where the end of the train is in this perspective. /DL
Photo Date:  8/8/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:02:34 PM
Location:  Sargents, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
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The 11 AM Train westbound
Title:  The 11 AM Train westbound
Description:  This scene is taken track side standing on ground once occupied by the siding. The branch diverged from main line and down grade to the right. Today the old branch row is a private road. The cross over switches would have been center frame in this scene. /DL
Photo Date:  8/8/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:02:37 PM
Location:  Sargents, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Track,Action
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The 11 AM Train eastbound
Title:  The 11 AM Train eastbound
Description:  Maps list this crossing as the Fowler Hill Road, however the sign out at the entrance calls it the Ed Nickerson Road. The open car is about where the siding's west switch would have been and the branch headed back past the camera to the left. /DL
Photo Date:  8/8/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:02:41 PM
Location:  Sargents, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
Cedar in the ground
Title:  Cedar in the ground
Description:  There arent many of these left. /DL
Photo Date:  8/8/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:15:28 PM
Location:  Sargents, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Speaks for itself
Title:  Speaks for itself
Description:  Track work on the B&ML. /DL
Photo Date:  8/8/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:02:35 PM
Location:  Waldo, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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2 PM Train at MP 6B
Title:  2 PM Train at MP 6B
Description:  Backing towards City Point from Waldo Station. The Open Air Car, BML#25 is a former BAR pulp car converted into an observation car in the 1990s. This series of photograps are taken at the east end of Johnson Flat a 1/2 mile tangent just east of Waldo Station. /DL
Photo Date:  8/15/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:22:14 PM
Location:  Johnson Flat, Wa
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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2 PM Train
Title:  2 PM Train
Description:  Backing east towards City Point from Waldo Station, moving from the tangent into the curve to Fowler Hill Road. BML 25 & BML3248 are fresh out of the paint shop this year. /DL
Photo Date:  8/15/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:22:18 PM
Location:  Johnson Flat, Wa
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
2 PM Train eastbound
Title:  2 PM Train eastbound
Description:  Backing towards City Point from Waldo Station. /DL
Photo Date:  8/15/2015  Upload Date: 9/8/2015 11:22:21 PM
Location:  Johnson Flat, Wa
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BML 50(70Tonner)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
Cinder Ballast
Title:  Cinder Ballast
Description:  Cinder ballast sure easy to shovel and tamp, but they don't hold the ties very well. /DL
Photo Date:  8/30/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 1:57:31 PM
Location:  Waldo, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Views:  92   Comments: 0
Inserting Ties
Title:  Inserting Ties
Description:  Track work on the B&ML. /DL
Photo Date:  8/30/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:02:09 PM
Location:  Waldo, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Inserter by 'Tamper'
Title:  Inserter by 'Tamper'
Description:  Track work on the B&ML. /DL
Photo Date:  8/30/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:02:13 PM
Location:  Waldo, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Car Storage
Title:  Car Storage
Description:  Early morning at the Waldo Station run-around. /DL
Photo Date:  8/30/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:02:17 PM
Location:  Waldo Station, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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MP 5B
Title:  MP 5B
Description:  Just east of Sargents. /DL
Photo Date:  8/30/2015  Upload Date: 9/29/2015 2:02:22 PM
Location:  Sargents, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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B&MLs Flanger
Title:  B&MLs Flanger
Description:  I came across the B&ML flanger in the yard at City Point this summer. The flanger components came from the/St. Georges"Valley RR sometime in the 50s. BML installed the device on a flat car with limited success. After a season to two the components were sent to BAR’s Derby shop where nt was installed in a BAR fertilizer car and thence returned to the BML. The fertilizer car was an assigned car when in service on the BAR running between The Counvy"and Searsport. /DL
Photo Date:  9/9/2015  Upload Date: 9/9/2015 4:24:15 PM
Location:  City Point, ME
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  168   Comments: 0


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