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The Blue Mountain Railcorp

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The Blue Mountain Railcorp (BMRC) was a fallen flag class 3 short line that servers the states in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The railroad headquarters is in Bangor, ME, and had various industrial parks and one power plant. With it’s creation in 1969 on the 10th of April, the railroad had ALCO powered S4s (total of 5 units- numbers 1-5) in October of 1972, the railroad bought 2 GP7s numbers 77 and 76 and were first ex Boston and Maine engines. The railroad was called the Blue Mountain Railcorp because in the mountains of New Hampshire, in the afternoon the mountains appeared to be blue, and so the railroad was named after this colorful event. The railroad was starting to struggle in 1985 when the company Blue mountain mining (one of the customers of the BMRC) shut down due to low incomes of rail cars, surprisingly this did not effected the railroad and also the tracks were covered in weeds and needed to be replaced/maintained in a period of time. By 1998, the railroad abandoned the line from Concord, NH to Lisbon, ME and lost the connection with the Moxie Corp Railway (the only railroad the BMRC ever interchanged with) by 2004, the railroad quietly merged with the Moxie Corp Railway. The tracks today are now gone but the mainlines of the former BMRC remains.

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