The hand powered "Armstrong" turntable was installed at MP 0 in the B&ML's Belfast train yard about 1870 when the line first went into service as the "Belfast Branch" of the Maine Central Railroad (1870-1925). The two bay engine house was built in November, 1946, to house the road's then new fleet of two 70-Ton GE diesel electric locomotives (#50 & #51) which replaced the 1901 Manchester steam locomotives in use up til then. (This engine house replaced a much older three bay steam engine house located just to the left of the new one.) To the right is BML #52, a third GE 70-tonner purchased new by the road in the early 1950s. The turntable was removed and sold in 2005, BML #52 was scrapped in 2009, and the engine house was demolished on June 21, 2011, to make way for a new shipyard and expansion of the existing adjacent boatyard and marine repair facility.

Photographed by Mack Page (Digital Restoration by Bruce Cooper), 1975.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, June 24, 2011.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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