The engine house became a popular snowmobile destination in the 1960s;Erickson, Anne R. Snowmobile Rendezvous in Down East magazine pp.64&65 and fittings like gauges, bells, headlights, and number plates began to disappear from the locomotives before the wooden cab of engine #1 was destroyed when the engine house burned in 1969.Smith, Charles M. The Locomotives at Chamberlain Lake The 470 Club Newsletter (August, 1978) p.11 The locomotive boiler jackets and asbestos lagging were removed in 1995 but the stripped locomotive shells remain a unique reminder of the industrial revolution in the Maine North Woods.
