I am so glad to hear someone say, "They are not trains, they are locomotives!" Thank you for stating it so well!

Been there by boat, one year when the water was real high. The engines, tracks and other material was brought in over the ice and assembled. There where no tracks coming in to there. The rivers and lakes were the roads. The rail was to move logs to the south bound route, water, that ran from lake to river until the logs hit the Penobscot River where they were run to Old Town Bangor area mills and sawn in to lumber. Then loaded on ships.At that time Bangor Maine was the richest city in the U.S. maybe the world, 265 saw mills on the river from Old Town to Bangor, about 15 miles. Eventually they built dams and reversed the flow of water that ran north. The trains became obsolete. You missed all the rail cars on a side spur in the same area. Further out on the rail line from there, out over the lake, you can see where they dumped the logs in the lake. Last I heard they were trying to semi restore some of the equipment. It really is in the middle of no where. Probably 150 or more miles from Bangor. Many miles of dirt logging roads and then trails.

R.I.P steam era, you will be missed 😭

As a Thomas the Tank Engine fan, it'll be interesting to see these locomotives talk and tell the backstory of their careers/adventures.

From my recollections as told to me by Bill Gove, who is a retired forester and forestry history buff living in Vermont... Until the mid 1960s, that entire operation was essentially frozen in time. When the lot was lumbered out, the company that had built the lumber camp (actually, it was more like a village) just up and left. As I was told, it was intact down to the coffee pots on top of the wood stoves in the bunkhouses. Apparently fearful of squatters moving in and establishing a community, the Maine State Forestry Dept., or whatever the agency was called at the time, was charged with the task of destroying the site, so they sent someone from Augusta up there (and it's quite a task to get to the location). No one from the State had actually been in there and they relied on hunters and trappers for information on the condition of things. When the agent from Augusta saw it for the first time and saw how pristine it was, he made his way back to the nearest phone, called Augusta, and asked if anyone there had SEEN the place (amazed, as he was, with having seen this veritable museum of 1920s-era logging technology). He was told in no uncertain terms to "Burn it!!!". So he went back and burned it. Everything. The lake boat (which had a walking beam engine), the locomotive engine house (those engines came from the New York Central I believe), the bunkhouses, log sluices, drag lines, mill buildings... EVERYTHING! I was recently at the Maine State Museum in Augusta (across the parking lot from the State House--it's an absolutely SPECTACULAR museum) and asked if they had anything from the Eagle Lake and West Branch. They had no idea what I was talking about. Imagine that!

My first job out of high school was working on log rafts sorting out logs to be processed by the paper mill near my home. We used small work boats and pushed the bundles of logs to the sorting area where we unstrapped the logs. I ran on the logs while wearing 'caulk boots', pronounced 'cork' boots. They have dozens of small metal spikes to grip on the bark of the logs. I used a 15 foot pike pole to push the logs into position for the crane to lift them into the mill. We stayed on the river during the entire shift. Had a floating lunch shack and toilet. The best part was the fact my grandfather did the same type of work back in the 1920's and 1930's. Those jobs are gone now, but I look back fondly on those evenings running on the rafts in the bay near my home.

We need more videos like this to show our kids and grandchildren what life was like before public transportation ,malls, and cars. The things that are taken for granted now. Someone started this country with hard work and a vision.

The one with the cab is a 1911 Baldwin 2-8-0 logging locomotive that was EX-NYC, it sank in the mud. An had new tracks and roadbed built under it. It is up to the state of Maine to remove and restore the locomotive. Due to Maine owning the locomotive The one with no cab is a Baldwin 4-8-0 Ten wheeler that has a unknown year and origin, the tracks and roadbed were also rebuilt. I did my hardest research on this locomotive and it was really hard to find the name and model of this locomotive. If you have anymore to add on, then comment below.

Your my hero for playing thomas the dank engine.

vid came up on my recommend feed. isn't it amazing to find stuff like this out there? our world is awesome.

I remember going exploring in the 80s and coming upon abandoned tracks and vehicles in the middle of nowhere. Love your videos.

Thank you Dylan, and Kelsea for making, and posting this video for those of us that can't make the journey to see for ourselves!

"they're not trains they're locomotives" *THIS GUY GETS IT*

Thank you for making the video. Being a New England guy I can appreciate the history of the area and it breaks my heart to see those once proud iron giants just dying alone in the forest.

Thanks for going out there and video taping it. I love all the extra history information as well. If you didn't do this i would have never gotten to see this. I'd love to go out there but between severe fibromyalgia (chronic pain) and more importantly my lack of funds I don't think that's going to happen. It's nice to see that someone is out there partially maintaining the area for visitors. And thanks to KZfaq and guys like you I can explore from home. And you provide all the needed information needed to have any clue what's ever of what things are for or rather were for. Plus after abandoning my cats for two weeks at Christmas they won't let me leave again. Ever.

Love your enthusiasm. I’ve been wanting to see those locomotives for years.

Dude you had me at paper maps!

OH MY GOD YOU ACTUALLY NOTED THAT THE PROPER TERM IS LOCOMOTIVE

AWESOME Dylan! I appreciate being able to see this bit of Americana, and I love old Steam Locomotives and Engines. Gotta leave a thumbs up for this.

Dude I haven't been on your channel in a while, but I've been here since a couple hundred subs. The aesthetic of your vlogs have totally changed, and I totally love it. Amazing job, dude. Can't wait to see more. Good luck on the amazing adventure you get to call life.

Awesome! I am a train fanatic. Thank you for taking the time to make this!

They're very beautiful in that forest, but it would be amazing to see them preserved, they must be pretty rare now. Wow!

Hi Dylan, thanks for all the effort you put into the making of these Videos!You also provide alot of information besides about the History behind all of it!Great work from great guys!Keep up the good Spirit!

Fascinating that you tracked down the location of these decaying locomotives. I appreciate your considerable efforts.

First time viewer of your video's...I am home alot do to my health it's an Awsome way to see these places...Thank you....

Great video Dylan, I loved it and the background music was wonderful.

Really well done production Dylan. Great camerawork, great music, great little history lesson, great adventure. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!

I visited these 40 years ago and still have pictures. We canoed in from the south end of Eagle lake, fished and camped for a week. Thanks for the video, brings back memories.

I really appreciate you sharing this! I'm in Alabama so i doubt i'll ever be able to go visit these in person. I think it's sad that before our cell phones and the technology were used to having now, people actually had to have a lot of ingenuity to be able to design and bring to life things like those locomotives that rarely exist now. Again thank you for your video!

I love stuff like this, thanks!

Thanks for making that hike and filming for us! great history there..

Great blog Dylan,you´re such an inspiration! Keep up the good work!

This video was really well done, good job.

Nice video of the two steam locomotives hiding in the woods! I live about 3 hours away from those locomotives.

it's so serene and intriguing to see this, tysm for uploading this. It just has this nice feeling in the forest and its really nostaglic in a certain way in videos like this.

Hey Dylan, this is the first time I've seen one of your videos and I have to say it was a pretty awesome adventure. I've been fascinated with trains/locomotives (😉) since I was a child; specifically steam locomotives. So being able to see something like this - in person or otherwise - is truly amazing. Thank you so much for posting this video, because it documents some of America's lost history.

Great video Dylan, well edited too!

Nice presentation. Well done!

Thank you for calling them locomotives and being concise, and not mislabeling what you saw. There are some you tube videos of this marvelous place in history, and they have no idea what they are seeing, mislabeling items. Thank you for encouraging, yet not misinforming your views of what they are observing.

Great video, Bro! I love your spirit of adventure and music selections well! Thanks for showing us this! I lived in Maine for years and never knew about this place!

I live about an hrs or so away and never had heard about this.gonna have to check it out.thanx from Bangor Maine

great stuff,,love to see that place,but i am far away in uk,keep up the good work

Whew! What an awesome video! Very nicely filmed and edited! LOVE the subject, abandoned + locomotives = awesome!

Nice video, good camera work! Really enjoyed watching! Thanks for shooting this.

My Boy Scout troop did some brush clearing at this place

it's kinda peaceful to see machines rust away and taken over by nature

This is both cool and sad. It breaks my heart seeing these once beautiful locomotives reduced to rusting hulks, but it's also beautiful to see how nature has taken over. I especially loved the shot of the tree growing around the wheel.

Thanks for the abandoned-locomotive story! Wonderfully presented and I’m exceptionally envious of your adventure. Maybe one day...

Dude those should be in a museum!

Be good for another episode of "will it run?"

nicest video i’ve watched on youtube in as long as i can recall. thanks, man.

Great video. Just the right amount of talking, scenery, and some funny moments as well!

Looks like the area around them has been maintained.

beautiful place. I visited those locomotives as a teenager

Nice Job on the video and the music, I appreciated the light train whistle while the camera focused on some foliage about half way through the video. I use to spend summers on second lake with family about 15 miles in the woods off route 1 in machos back when the Whales back was open and this brought back a lot of memories. Great job.

I like your video Dylan. It's nice that you explained a little about what you were seeing and how you came about finding this place. Keep it up Friend.

Nice to see something in the US that is not covered in graffiti, splendid video Thanks.

6:30 Yo that’s a steam donkey.

I used to work as a Counselor / Photog in a Maine Summer Camp. Have sent this vid's link to the camp. Hopefully, the Campers will visit the site. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS AMAZING VID. Maybe you could do some exploring and find other cool and little Northern Maine Sitez; logging camps, abandoned lumbering, farming and mining towns. Wouldn't be great to find an abandoned town with a grass runwayed airport with some abandoned cars and planes left behind !

I could watch the footage of the walk in the woods for hours. Nicely done guys!

Is that a historical site? There were trails that looked well used and there was a plaque with a description on it about the log carts.

be nice to restore the trains back to their former Beauty

Pretty cool Dylan. I come from a rairoading family in Colorado so I appreciate seeing RR history no matter where its at. Good Job

Great piece of filming! Nice way to document history. Thanks for sharing.

I gave it a thumbs up, even though the man bun was nearly unbearable to watch.

Good to see that toll money going to good use on the roads...

A great adventure video. The choo-choo trains may be old, but they are so cute!

the best discovery video ive ever seen..brother your style is right on :)..Kelsea..you have a fantastic eye..your camera work is some of the best ive seen..thank you for the experience :)

HEARTBREAKING 😔😔 ... that's when poverty started in AMERICA when the Diesel killed the steam engine .

i live in Fort Kent Maine and i toke a trip to Van Buren and on the way there i seen 37 abandoned homes on rte 1 i think you shoued go see them

Superb job! I heard about these back in 1970 but never made the trek...thank you for sharing.

Brings back a lot of good memories of when I did the complete Allagash Waterway 30 years ago. We had to portage at this point between Chamberlain and Eagle Lake. I see they have done some work there to show how the process worked.

I don't have time to scroll through all the comments to see if this is already there. However, the locomotives are former New York Central and last belonged to the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad. They were brought in by skidding them over the frozen lakes. There used to be an enginehouse and the locos were intact. However, a dunderheaded park service employee misunderstood his instructions when he was told to torch all the old buildings at the logging camp. He was NOT supposed to torch the enginehouse. So there they sit and rot exposed to the elements with all their wood burned off.

We should rescue them and restore them to working condition!

Very interesting. I love trains, plus all the interesting items you have shown us. Thank you for showing this rare find to us.

Dylan Thank You so much for making and posting this wonderful Video,

This is a railfans dream right here.

I visited them on my trip up the Alagash

love your videos. just found you today. subscribed looking forward to a lot more. thanks.

Hi Dylan, I would love to see you, Josh from Exploring With Josh, & FunForLouis all travel together! I love all three of y'alls videos & travel Vlogs. Keep up the great work man!

Great video! i wish i could find a couple guys in michigan that like to do this stuff.

Did you get stuck in the rain?

Very interesting. Thanks for making and sharing this video.

Cool. It is amazing to find historical locomotives in the woods. Wish I can start the service back in the woods.

they should make the area were the trains are a museum

'They're not trains, they're locomotives". Judges would also have accepted "Choo-choos".

Nice Dylan! Just subbed. Keep it up. Love abandoned videos. :)

Very Nice Footage you provided here with this video. My son who is 19 now knows everything about the era and has taught me so much. A part of America History rarely ever spoke about .

It makes me sad to see those beautiful Steam Engines in that state. Sadder yet knowing they one day will only be a red stain in the Forrest. They are beyond saving, might be able to use them as patterns for a rails up build, but I think that they even beyond that as well..

It is called a "boiler" it boiles water not a "combustion chamber"

Awesome video, really interesting, and very well shot too.

Very cool! I would love to photograph those locomotives! Thank you for sharing!

How much trouble would one get into if they say,fired one up and got it out?????........ ;)

And bro it's called the firebox not a furnace

Dylan: You are a true artist with your voice, your camera, and your sense of adventure and imagination.

Beatiful video....I love trains and locomotives, also nature, and you combine it in a pretty trip...

It makes me so sad seeing abandoned railways :(

Dylan , who was filming u all along ? .. He doesn't seem to have a voice .

That was actually sick! Gained one new sub all the way from The UK!!