I took this image while riding on the runningboard of BML#50, a GE 70-ton diesel-electric locomotive that is almost as old as I am having been bought new by the Belfast & Moosehead Lake RR in 1946. In the 67 years since then it has run more than a million and a half miles -- the equivalent of three round trips to the Moon -- while never traveling at more then 20 mph (and usually less) over the 33.07 miles of track of the 142-year old B&ML running through the fragrant pine forests and fertile farmlands of rural Waldo County between Belfast & Burnham Junction. Here the locomotive is about to cross Westcott Stream about 5 miles inland from Belfast approaching Waldo, ME.

Photographed by Bruce Cooper, August 17, 2013.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Cooper, August 18, 2013.
Railroad: Belfast & Moosehead Lake.

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