MDDE 1201 North, Barclay, Maryland_
A bucket list accomplishment. I have long wanted to shoot the DeWitt Geeps of the Maryland & Delaware RR. This goes back to the early 1980s when I first started getting serious about this stuff. My first attempt last year was a big fat zero as they didn't run one of the jobs, and the other used a GP10 that was pinch hitting.
Fast forward to this week and I was able to check them off the list as Stan Short, Jack Bruce and I made a trip to the Delmarva Peninsula. We succeded in shooting two of their three RS3m units on two of their disconnected operations. Here the Massey based crew runs up the former Pennsy Centreville Secondary Track with two empty potash cars and 11 loads of locally grown grain.
The second unit is a loaner from the Black River & Western RR. It is a SW1200 that is filling in for MDDE RS-3m No. 1202 that is setting at Massey and awaiting a "rare" part that will hopefully return it to service. The green SW1200 began life in 1956 as New Haven No. 643 and has done stints with PC, CR and RBMN before landing on the Black River & Western.
MDDE 1201 North, Barclay, Maryland_
A bucket list accomplishment. I have long wanted to shoot the DeWitt Geeps of the Maryland & Delaware RR. This goes back to the early 1980s when I first started getting serious about this stuff. My first attempt last year was a big fat zero as they didn't run one of the jobs, and the other used a GP10 that was pinch hitting.
Fast forward to this week and I was able to check them off the list as Stan Short, Jack Bruce and I made a trip to the Delmarva Peninsula. We succeded in shooting two of their three RS3m units on two of their disconnected operations. Here the Massey based crew runs up the former Pennsy Centreville Secondary Track with two empty potash cars and 11 loads of locally grown grain.
The second unit is a loaner from the Black River & Western RR. It is a SW1200 that is filling in for MDDE RS-3m No. 1202 that is setting at Massey and awaiting a "rare" part that will hopefully return it to service. The green SW1200 began life in 1956 as New Haven No. 643 and has done stints with PC, CR and RBMN before landing on the Black River & Western.