MAINE CENTRAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVE #470

This is a video of the Maine Central Steam Locomotive #470 in Waterville, Maine. It has been sitting and being vandalized since it's last journey in 1954. Please view the video, and please speak out to your paper, your local radio station, your mayor, your governor, and feel free to leave your comments here.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Trains
• waterville
• locomotive
• 470
• maine
• history
• steam
• engine
• central
• station
• antique
• gerald
• fairfield

[tootleshasnoodles]

New Waterville Opera House video up under 'more from this user'.

[tootleshasnoodles]

Even though some of the parts have rusted through, they can be rebuilt or special made and replaced. It is still very solid, and most is still intact. I could stand on it and I didn't feel any weak spots except for the missing fire door on the side.

[tootleshasnoodles]

It also cost $80,00 just for the statue itself...

[trainkids]

I can't beleave that waterville wasted 1.2 million dollars to buy something as pointless and stupid as that!!!!! The 470 definatlly has to go to a museum that'll take care of it and not buy retarded crap that wouldn't even be worth a dollar!!! It would be even cooler if they restored 470 to exscursion use!!!!

[GrizzlyFlats]

@ 2:55

What is that THING? $1.2 million for that eyesore?

Industrial art sculptures like that are beyond pointless - they're incredibly expensive, take very little artistic talent to create, and the end result almost always looks out-of-place and ugly. Even if that kind of money doesn't go to the 470, at least spend it on something worthwhile like schools or the highway department. "Culture;" give me a break...

[earljm54]

Dan04929 I remember being 10 yrs old setting on the front porch of the old homestead at Shipyard cove

eating Cheerios listening to old 470 in the distance headed to the paper mill at Bucksport.I could hear her coming 4 miles away.Sad to see history like this go to waste.54earljm

[MrTroll199]

I dont live in maine, but the sculpture looks like a bunch of shit glued together.

[Dan04929]

I was 7 years old when this loco made its last run from Portland to bangor. we raced the train "home" from Pittsfield to Detroit. my dad was driving and I remember the excitment of the ride. I was facinated by the speed,sound and the black smoke that trailed behind it as it raced along the track. Fond memories.

[snaggs015]

you will be sad to hear that if it not restored by the end of this year the city will cut it up for scrap. The land it sits on is now has no trasspassing signs and the train has keep out signs.

[batistalver2011]

its a shame the city or state should try and get her back in shape, too many were scrapped and its a true shame that they let this fine piece of history go....

[Kurosakifangurl56]

I used to play on this train when I was younger. Some people are really careless with property like this and it makes me sad. This train is my childhood memory and I live in Arizona now but I grew up in Maine until I was 14.

[GP9railfan]

The Downeast Scenic RR would love to have that baby! Haul it into the Waterville roundhouse for full restoration before it's too late!

[GP9railfan]

I agree!! This is no way for a once proud loco to spend the rest of it's life. Waterville messed up big time when they had that eyesore built instead.