One of the iconic summer wildflowers of Maine is the purple lupine which grows abundantly throughout the state including along the tracks of many of the Pine Tree State's railroads. This image was taken along side of the "Horseshoe" curve just beyond MP 1 on the MMA's main line at Kidders, Searsport, ME. The almost 180 degree, 2,600 foot long curve carries the line around the tip of Long Cove which separates Searsport from Sears Island. The sign just beyond the lupines warns of the possibility of remote control operations of trains entering or leaving the MMA's Searsport yard a mile down the track from this location. For more than a century and a quarter that yard was the southernmost point on the old Bangor and Aroostook system which the MMA acquired in 2003. US Rt 1 is visible just beyond the red sign in the distance.

Photographed by Bruce Cooper, July 10, 2011.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, July 10, 2011.
Railroad: Montreal, Maine, & Atlantic.

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