Massive Railroad 1,500' Trestle Deep In The Forest Of Maine 90 Yrs Abandoned

Anyone New please read my video descriptions as they have more info and links to google map if you want to see the area from overhead. Thanks For Watching

All I can say is thank you. I’m 55 and have been in a wheelchair since I was 18. I have longed to go a hike like this my whole life. Just a flat out adventure with no other purpose than to see something special at the end that few have ever seen. That’s what I love about diving, it is absolute freedom for someone like me. So again thank you! I am so glad I found this video. 🤙🏼🖖🏼😯

I am a 64nyear old disabled man and I live my life vicariously through people like yourself who take me along on adventures that I could not do by myself. Thank you for sharing your experiences I really do appreciate it!

The railway was built to transport logs out of Eagle Lake which is part of the Allagash/St John watershed and transport them to the Penobscot watershed at Umbazooksus Lake. You can see what’s left of the pier where the logs were dumped from the the trains at the North East side of the lake. From there they would float the logs to Millinocket. Eventually Great Northern Paper dammed Chamberlain Lake and dug a canal from Chamberlain to Telos Lake reversing the flow of Chamberlain Lake making it flow into the Penobscot and not the Allagash. Thus the railway was no longer needed.

Maine has a lot of abandoned rail lines, many have been turned into trails for snowmobiles and atv's. I live not far from a rail road town and it just amazes me how many lines I can see in the woods, not to mention some of the bridges made from stone. Lots of history here. At one time the U.S. had a rail system that rivaled all of Europe! Too bad it's mostly gone now. The stories they could tell!

Nature claiming back what was once thought conquered. Gives a perspective on human activities.

Inspired by Post10, I cleared a clogged grate on our office parking lot drain. Super satisfying!

I was there in 1970. We were canoeing and saw the trestle. Much more of it was intact. Pretty impressive!

There used to be a roundhouse around the locomotives. I read about these in Railroad Magazine 60 years ago. Which protected them for many many years.

I don’t know about anyone else but post 10 has a good narrating voice.

When ever I see old abandoned things, I always think about the people that built or used it and the friendship that where made when using them.

can I just say how amazing it is that the steel has not rusted away into nothing in all this time. all in wet ground and exposed air. truly impressive.

My Daughter and I hiked this piece of railway history in 2020, took us 2 hours one way and the bugs weren't bad at all. Took many of the same detours you did. The lake was much lower back then and we were able to walk out along the rails much further along the shore. The next year we hiked another long section of the rails to the other terminus. That is, the other side of the trestle, but driving along a woods road where the we knew the track once crossed. We parked and then walked west. Ended up on a rocky beach which has a long deadend causeway that ends up about 100 feet from chore and built with the right rail about 6 inches higher than the left rail. This helped them dump the pulpwood into the a water so they could be floated down to the other end of the lake. One other interesting find was about 500 feet before the beach, on the right side, there once was located a building, replete with an old steel bathtub. There are old wooden barrels full of bolts and nuts and other track related materials. Nearby there is a shallow well or perhaps outhouse pit. No evidence anyone has been down that track at all. There is a branch that peels off to the left and supposedly goes the entire length of the lake to the other end. You can sort of see it on Google Earth. One local historian says that the paper company built the branch but never actually used it.

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Most people think abandoned things are junk but there actually incredible

Love the old trestles, amazing how they built these old railways!

I knew about the locomotives, but had no idea of the equipment or anything else abandoned in the woods. Thanks for sharing

"It's going to be a treacherous, bushwacking adventure..........Let's get moving." Love post 10!

Post 10 has a great narrating voice AND is very handsome. He needs his own show on TV! Plus he's very knowledgeable on a variety of topics. I've learned so much watching him.

There used to be a ton of early 1900s shortlines and trolleys where I live and it's been so much fun checking out the old ROWs in the woods. It's so beautiful