B & A Dock's and Coal Pocket's Searsport, ME.

B & A Dock's and Coal Pocket's Searsport, ME.

This image, looking from the shoreline, shows two wharves at the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad's coal shipping facilities in Searsport, Maine. The wharf on the left has a warehouse.There are two freighters at this wharf; one on either side. The wharf on the right is used for unloading coal from colliers (as seen here) by crane to hopper cars on an elevated track for movement of the coal to coal pockets*. *A structure, bunker, or bin for the storage of coal