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BAR Searchlight

            Way back when, the Bangor and Aroostook was a very busy railroad. So much so the railroad had CTC in place on much of the Southern Division south of Oakfield, with power switches, a complex interlocking and tower at S. Lagrange, and a mix of searchlights and semaphores along the Medford Cutoff and the main line. 

However with economic collapse of the potato traffic during the Penn Central bankruptcy and declining traffic, most of the system was unplugged and removed in the 80's and 90's. I believe the signals around Millinocket might have lasted into the early 90's. To my knowledge, this signal posted at the south end of the former siding at Quakish Lake, is the last one standing (there is a set at the end of the airport runway in Bangor which were felled and never picked up). This remaining signal is one of the last remnants of a time when things were busy enough, to warrant a signaling system.

On this day I found EMR 910-25 making its way south to BVJ, with a pair of SD70M-2's bracketing the last SD40-2 in service, along with NBSR GP40-2 3068 hitching a ride to Saint John .

Eastern Maine Railway
Train: 910-25
2/25/2024
Quakish Lake
Millinocket, ME
EMR Millinocket Subdivision 
   

Taken in: United States / Maine / Unorganized Territory of North Penobscot / Norcross (show map)

Taken on: February 25, 2024

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