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July 2010

Many thanks to the Amherst Railway Society. The Board of Directors and the general membership awarded B.P.S. $1,000 to assist in the preservation of the Brooks Railroad Station. These funds will be used to help repair the roof.

June 2010

The City of Belfast Council voted to purchase the three miles of rail corridor within the city limits from Unity Property Management.

May 2010

Had a successful openning day memorial day weekend.

Got bad news about locomotive 50. We need to replace a couple of cylinders before we can use her again. Anyone wishing to help can send in a special donation.

April 2010

Work started up on our numerous projects.

January 2010

Held our annual business meeting.

November 2009

Leased the Belfast ROW from Unity Property Management. This allows us to operate trains up to the Route One overpass.

Filled in several washouts and cut brush along the Belfast ROW in preparation of our return to Belfast.

On November 21, we operated a special event train from Brooks to the the Route One overpass and return to celebrate the return of trains to Belfast.

Maine Rail Group awarded BPS a grant for one thousand dollars for our efforts to return the railroad to Belfast. A HUGE thank you to Maine Rail Group for the grant. Thank you to Russ Barber for communicating our efforts to them!

October 2009

Completed a successful foliage season.

Interchanged flatcars for loading of 2 B&ML Pullman coaches destined for the North Carolina Railroad Museum.

September 2009

Was able to paint most of coach 3248

BPS operated trains during the Common Ground Fair (25, 26, & 27).

August 2009

Work is progressing on serveral fronts.

• Coach 3248 was prepared for painting along with restoration work.
• Station window glazing and painting
• Track maintenance work

July 2009

Openning day weekend was a success.

June 2009

Working hard to be ready for our openning day July 4th. We're working hard on several track projects, as well as prepping the station and our railcar fleet for the big day.

Come check us out!

June 20 was a momumental day! After passing her checkup, locomotive #53 was started for the first time in about 5 years. A video clip of this event is on YouTube. She idled for several hours. The next day, #53 pulled #50 up and down the tracks to test her under load.

May 2009

Made headway on the track projects. Also saw steady progression on the railcars and train station.

Oil test results are in for locomotive #50. Looks like we need to schedule an oil change prior to our startup. Contributions to help out would be apprecitated.

May 2 & 3 - Cleaning of coach 3248, station work, and track work.

April 2009

The snow released the ROW from its grip about mid month which delayed a number of our work projects.

Used locomotive #50 to move cars off the wye in Burnham, storing a few in Unity, then took coach 3248 down to Brooks. Also took open air car #25 up to Thorndike to move the benches out of coach 3236 onto #25.

Drainage work started around the Brooks station. Station is the low spot and was collecting a lot of water underneath it. Scraping was started to prep the station for painting next month.

Acquired a slightly used hi-rail vehicle, this will no doubt please the track crews with our track projects.

Started culvert and drainage work on the ROW.

Placed the batteries in locomotive #53, however, we're missing the cables to complete the setup.

All rail bike are in Brooks, however, the program is delayed as we iron out procedural issues.

March 2009

The Society recently acquired two former Lackawanna coaches (3248 & 3236) through an agreement with one our members Paul Cronin. Coach 3248 will be our primary coach as it requires minor work to place into service. Whereas coach 3236 needs extensive restoration work, that will be done throughout this summer.

November 2008

November 2nd saw the first use of locomotive 50 by BPS as we moved our open air car #25 from Thorndike to Brooks.

October 2008

Held the Society’s first successful Halloween night. Hopefully this is the first of many more to come.

This October saw the continuation of repairs to the Train Station, the addition of a coal stove, and the addition of two push carts aquired from Belfast & Moosehead Lake Preservation Society.