The Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad was a forest railway built to transfer pulpwood between drainage basins in the Maine North Woods.

The railroad operated only a few years in a location so remote the steam locomotives were never scrapped and remain exposed to the elements at the site of the Eagle Lake Tramway.

During the winter of 1926–27, Édouard Lacroix's Madawaska Company used log haulers to move heavy railway equipment overland from Lac-Frontière, Quebec to Churchill Depot and then over frozen old Eastern Manufacturing’s 9-14 haul road to Eagle Lake.

The log haulers delivered one steam locomotive, two Plymouth gasoline-powered switchers, miles of steel rail, and forty five railroad cars for carrying pulpwood.

[3] Petroleum products to fuel wood conveyors, switchers and steam locomotives represented a significant part of the supplies necessary for the operation of the railway.

Through the winter months on iced roads, Lacroix transported the fuel oil from Lac Frontière, Canada, to twelve tanks at Eagle Lake for use the following summer.

To prevent the American petroleum companies from complaining about it, the Great Northern company purchased another Plymouth switcher with about ten flat cars and built a 5 mile (8 km) branch line south of the railway, which required no great cuts nor fills; it was not intended for the transport of wood, but to transport supplies from Greenville, Maine.

[5] Drums of petroleum products to fuel the pulpwood conveyors, switchers and steam locomotives became a major freight commodity over Chesuncook Lake.

[10] The State of Maine (which took possession of the Allagash Waterway region in 1966) decided to destroy the old buildings for safety reasons and to maintain the natural appearance.