Thanks for sharing. While the VN had freight, I doubt it really paid the bills.

I remember them. The Vermont Northern was after the St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County and the Lamoille Valley Railroad. Am I correct ? Does anyone remeber them ?

First time I have seen any video if this RR. This was before the LVRC, which was the very last RR to operate this route. All a trail now---- and memories.

958 is now at the Hobo Railroad.

Looks like the first train was a mixed as it appeared to have a car of cement. Some unique Bridges and it almost appears some of them used to open

2:41 ahhh, there’s that iconic horn. I’ve personally heard it many times myself. I think it was actually the first train horn I’ve ever heard in person. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5OcZWCpdrZ6ga8si=pHqcWCN29Rhu0kNY

Quite the variety of Motive Power inherited from CN. Since they were owned by the Emmons Corporation they had the same paint as York Rail located in Pennsylvania. Amazingly there were still more 50 ft boxcars in these trains than the paper industry 60 ft cars

Good looking units and there is no mistaking the Eastern seaboard with those two sunken ships

That first yard, with 367 switching-- where is that???

Any more Maine Coastal videos with sound? 958 looks to have its cab rebuilt so the horn should’ve been updated by then.

I spotted one in Lansdale, PA three years ago. Exciting to see, but sad to see it covered in graffiti. At least I could still recognize the logo.

Not Ex Boston & Maine Locomotives

very cool find! thanks for sharing!

Another great video!

958 is one of our best engines to run at work, Its easy on the throttle and has a 26 brake stand in it.

Oh hey, it’s 958!!! It doesn’t feel right without the horn it got after its incident though.

Certainly some nice scenery unfortunately that doesn't pay the bills and that track was in a declining state. The lack of online Freight certainly puts a damper on things and it makes me wonder how much of this track is even left

In 1994, We werein Maine on vacation. I got to back the steam engine onto the main line. That engine came from either Swedenor Noway, can't remember which. Hey, I'm 87 years old, be happy I remember I was there. thanks for the vidios.

Nice trip through some real.rural areas. A different paint Scheme with no lettering but decent looking

With all that nice Autumn color and the rural farms. That would be a trip well worth the money. Plus watching the three crew members bring the units out and put them back into what looks like a dairy building was a flashback on how rural America's railroads actually operated including the Armstrong turntable. I believe a friend of mine rode one of these trips and I can see why he was glad to have made the trip. Great coverage

They used to serve the grain elevator and sardine cannery in Belfast, I've loaded many box cars of sardines while in high-school back then, thanks for bringing back good memories ❤

still operating as a tourist railway with railbikes , drive your own train , charter a train for your large goup. etc, i love the small locos and short trains .

The short line where I grew up ran a pair of there 600 HP beauties circa 1953!!

That was quite the scenic little railroad.

7:07 idiot trying to race ahead of the train.

Thought i read that they destroyed the roundhouse and turntable area to build condo's or something.

Wonderful!! I grew up in Belfast and am very familiar with this railway ❤❤

Very nice!

Thank you for sharing these .It brings back a lot of good memories.I lived a mile from Burnham Jct and grew up listening to that beautiful horn when they used to come into the junction every time.

Very nice as it goes through virtually Farm fields and pastures and what appears to be a large amount of grain for Freight. Wisconsin only had two GE 70T on the long abandoned Ahnapee & Western

nice.

Enjoyable video

Remember well chasing a freight on this line with my brand new Camaro in 1975. They were running with 2 of the 70 tonners on that day got some good shots then visited their yard.

That was a neat little railroad. In 1980 when I was early in my career at the ATSF, I stopped into the BML in Belfast and talked to the yard guys and they let me wander around the facilities freely. It certainly moved a lot of freight.

That film is like a test to see if you can find where the locomotives are in the consist? The former Calumet and Hecla GE 70T which is now down at a museum in Indiana still has the Cooper Bessemer prime mover to the best of my knowledge and they really do bark when they're running under a load. A fleet of three was sizable for this line and those freight car consists are pretty wild. I'm trying to remember but didn't they serve a lot of chicken farms due to all the covered hoppers that probably have feed.in them? Just thinking back to GE 44 tonners two lines that I believe had MU on theirs were out west and sadly are now abandoned were the Arcata & Mad River and the Valley & Siletz. Certainly some fun footage to watch

Nice footage, they still have three but they will likely never run again. The current management is running the organization like a personal model railroad, buying inoperable locomotives from elsewhere while neglecting the actual Belfast and Moosehead Lake equipment. It also doesn’t help that there are only 2-3 parts suppliers for the Cooper-Bessemer prime movers. The president of the group is a hot head and ran his mouth to atleast one if not more of them, which the suppliers opted to just not sell to them anymore because of it.

Cool, distributed power ! Was that due to bridge weight limitations ?

One of the tonners survives as Downeast Scenic 54, the other the BML parted out and scrapped.

Rail cars with no graffiti, now that is truely rare!

Not a very long line but it did have some interesting scenery on the route running alongside the highway and then under that larger railroad bridge. MU equipped GE 44T not very common so an extra treat to see. The Fairmont car with the work crew equally old school Very glad that this footage was available to show this unique eastern carrier

Both of these old 44 tonners are down here in East Barnet Vermont at Marvin Kendalls Passumpsic Railroad. Neither of them run.

A good little railroad, that was done in by a number of larger forces.

Neat little railroad. Wikipedia has a history on it.

40 toners?

COOL video of a cool little railroad!!! Thanks for sharing it!!!!

Great video, a car counters delight..

a symphony of 567 excellence although that bell sounded a little flat. Im not sure why but I always love that paint scheme on those geeps

I model Danville Junction in HO , nice seeing vids like this,, thank you for posting the stuff you post!

Cool seeing a meet in Groveton!

This is priceless, thank you so much for sharing!