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• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) abstract "The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (operated as the "Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railway" from 2009 to 2012) is a subsidiary of the Brooks Preservation Society (BPS), a not-for-profit organization established in 2008 to protect and preserve historic rail transportation structures and assets in Waldo County, Maine, USA.Following the announcement in February 2008 of the formal demise of the original Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (1871-2007) by its then private operator, the non-profit Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad & Preservation Society of Unity, Maine, the BPS was incorporated as an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to purchase the 1892 B&MLRR stationhouse in Brooks (MP 12.27) to save and preserve it as an historic railroad structure. In the months that followed the BPS was also able to negotiate the purchase of several pieces of B&MLRR rolling stock including two of the road's three operating 1940s 70-ton GE diesel-electric locomotives: B&ML#53 which had been acquired used by the B&ML from Vermont's Montpelier and Barre Railroad in 1970 followed in the Fall by B&ML#50 that had been bought new by the road in 1946 and had provided the first non-steam power to ever operate over the corridor. A track inspection car, an open-air observation car, a 1926 former DL&WRR Pullman-built chair car, a MEC stainless steel coach, and a caboose were later added to the equipment roster.In February 2009, the BPS entered into an agreement with the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) to operate over the State-owned 30 miles of B&ML grade running inland from the Belfast/Waldo town line (MP 3.14) to Burnham Junction (MP 33.07) and early that July began operating weekend excursion trains between Brooks (MP 12.27) and Waldo (MP 7.15). The following November the BPS leased another three miles of grade within the Belfast city limits between the Belfast/Waldo town line and the Penobscot McCrum property line under the US Rt. 1 bridge from its still then owner, Unity Property Management (UPM). This permitted the BPS to establish regular seasonal excursion service from the Upper Bridge (MP 1.0) to Waldo.In July 2010, the City of Belfast purchased the UPM-owned portion of the grade within the city limits in order to preserve the corridor and with the intention of eventually developing it as a public multi-use rail trail. While exploring how to design and finance such a rail trail, in the interim the City also agreed to continue to lease its portion of the grade on a year-to-year basis to the BPS to operate seasonal trains from its Upper Bridge station.After two seasons of operations from the Upper Bridge, however, the City cancelled the lease with the BPS in October 2012, and four months later formally applied to the Surface Transportation Board of the US Department of Transportation and the US Department of the Interior for permission under the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1247(d)(e)) to "railbank" their portion of the grade from the Belfast waterfront at Pierce Street up to the turnout to the privately owned City Point Central Railroad Museum at MP 2.5 next to the Oak Hill Road grade crossing. The still pending application would, if approved, permit the City to remove and scrap the grade's existing sleepers and over 300 tons of well-over-century-old 75-pound steel rail in order to convert the corridor to a pedestrian rail trail at an estimated cost of over $600,000.The loss of the lease with the City forced the BPS to relocate the railroad's excursion train service in 2013 to the stationhouse at the City Point Museum site, a property which the BPS subsequently also agreed to purchase from its long-time private owner. The remaining 0.64 miles of City-owned grade from the City Point turnout to the Belfast/Waldo town line as well as the 30 miles of State-owned grade beyond continues to be available to the B&MLRR over which it now operates its scheduled seasonal weekend excursion service from the City Point station to the bogs beyond Waldo, as well as other special event runs and group charters over that and other parts of the line.".
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• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) hqCity Brooks,_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) imageCaption "B&ML#53, left, and B&ML#50 at the City Point Central yard turnout".
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) locale United_States.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) locale Waldo_County,_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) marks "B&ML".
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• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) predecessorLine Maine_Central_Railroad_Company.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) railroadName "Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad".
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) startYear "2009".
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) website www.brookspreservation.org.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Companies_operating_former_Maine_Central_Railroad_lines.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Heritage_railroads_in_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Maine_railroads.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Passenger_rail_transportation_in_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_2008.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Transportation_in_Waldo_County,_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) subject Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Waldo_County,_Maine.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) comment "The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (operated as the "Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railway" from 2009 to 2012) is a subsidiary of the Brooks Preservation Society (BPS), a not-for-profit organization established in 2008 to protect and preserve historic rail transportation structures and assets in Waldo County, Maine, USA.Following the announcement in February 2008 of the formal demise of the original Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (1871-2007) by its then private operator, the non-profit Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad & Preservation Society of Unity, Maine, the BPS was incorporated as an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to purchase the 1892 B&MLRR stationhouse in Brooks (MP 12.27) to save and preserve it as an historic railroad structure. ".
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) label "Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (2009)".
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• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) depiction BML53_%26_50_at_City_Point.jpg.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) homepage www.brookspreservation.org.
• Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009) isPrimaryTopicOf Belfast_and_Moosehead_Lake_Railroad_(2009).