This diagram of the joint B&ML/MEC Station & Yard at Burnham Junction, ME, shows how the junction between the two railroads was laid out in 1926 right after the MEC ended its lease on the B&ML and, after 55 years, ceased to operate the 33 mile line as its "Belfast Branch." (The road then started to operate under its own name -- the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR -- for the first time on January 1, 1926.) For almost 90 years (1871-1960) passengers from throughout Waldo County changed trains here between the B&ML and the MEC, and for 135 years freight was passed back and forth between the two lines on the Junction's exchange tracks. The station house, long covered passenger platform, freight house, locomotive water tank, section house, post office, and all the other facilities shown in this diagram are now long gone with only the tracks and switches still left.

Photographed by Collection Of Bruce C. Cooper (BMLRR.com), 1926.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, August 2, 2005.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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