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Another shot from my first week long railfan trip I ever took.
MKT local is doing work at Conway in Denison TX. , with an RS3M for power. The blue Chevy Malibu is Jeff Cwan's car (he called the MoPac Mobile), that Jeff, my 18yr old self, Leyton Hemmert, and Dave Fasules piled into, for the road trip from Chicago. I looked at a timetable and found Conway was about 3 miles from Ray Yard. So I looked on Google maps to find how it looks today. If you put in 1496 W. Johnson St., Dension, TX. , you can see where this shot is from. This is shot on 8-28-1985
It's early April and Conrail RS3m 9916 on a northbound local is still bucking snow drifts on the exDL&W Syracuse Branch at Apulia Station NY.
The Maryland & Delaware Federalsburg Job passes through the Perdue feed mill at Seaford, DE on April 11, 2022 with RS-3m No. 1203 and three cars of interchange for the Delmarva Central.
Four Maine Central GE’s in four paint schemes and Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial RS3m are assigned to the D&H “puller job” at Brandt, Pennsylvania. After the rear of their clears the switch at Jefferson Junction, the train’s road power will tie on and depart for its destination.
A Lamoille Valley crew has grabbed its cars in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and is departing to travel over the former Maine Central Mountain Division to Whitefield, New Hampshire.
The Maryland & Delaware Massey Job doubles over two cars to a 11 car grain shuttle near Roberts, MD on April 13, 2022 with RS-3m No. 1201 and BR&W SW1200 No. 1202. Soon the train will leave for the DCR connection at Townsend, DE.
On the last day of April, 1977, Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial RS3m leads a long train east at Lehighton, Pennsylvania. At this point, the former Lehigh Valley yard site is still in pretty clean with several tracks on either side of the main intact. In the left distance, a yard light tower and the Packerton car shops can be seen.
A six-car Lamoille Valley train departs the Central Vermont yard in St. Albans, Vermont. A Canadian National van and a Central Vermont S4 in the left distance provide evidence of both of LVRC’s interchange partners in St. Albans.
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.
. . . straight to "8" - Lake State RS3m 975 pours it on once clearing the main crossing running northbound through Frederic, Michigan passing the local watering hole "Swamp II Bar" enroute to Gaylord, Michigan - March 2, 2002.
Two RS36’s and an RS3m are the helper power for a northbound Delaware & Hudson train climbing Belden Hill at Dyes, New York. They're not quite right for Century Saturday, but they're Alcos.
The delay in getting the RS3m up from Olean gave me a last chance to see the center cabs running freight. Only a short train this day so only the one unit but they had the 4 cars setup on the wye and didn't have to spend time going down to the interchange. That made much better light all the way to North Java than other days. Here they're crossing the road at Curriers. Nice of the neighbor to cover up their utilities with the matching orange Tiger Lillies. The 113 is an industrial 80T GE originally bought by ConEd for Staten Island. It was bought by the A&A in 2014
Passing the old stone MC / NYC depot in Standish, Michigan, we find a Grayling bound Lake State Railway train with a wild mix of power, HR412 698 leading an RS3M and C425M on July 1, 2005.
A southbound Maryland & Delaware train passes the grain silos in Millington, MD on a rainy morning in Maryland's Eastern Shore. The power for this train is an RS3M, original built for the DL&W and later rebuilt with an EMD prime mover.
One of two units to be painted in Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial scheme, rebuilt RS3 506 gets ready to lead a northbound out of Taylor yard. The “clubfoot”, which first wore number 1976 after rebuilding at Morrison-Knudsen,, was originally D&H RS3 4112.
A pair of Katy deuces lead an SP SD45 and an MKT re-engined (EMD) RS3m south on train 203. Passing the corner store at Argyle, north of Ft Worth.
Maryland and Delaware's RS3m #1203 switches DS Smith out at the end of the line at Cambridge, MD. From the looks of this area via google earth, it appears that the railroad doesn't run out there any more.
Maryland and Delaware RS3M 1203 was heading back home to Federalsburg after swapping traffic with the Delmarva Central in Seaford.
An old GMC pickup was adding to the rustic nature of the Eastern Shore as the old Alco rebuild passed by. The 1203 was built by Alco in 1952 for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western RS3 and rebuilt by Conrail with a prime mover from a retired EMD E-unit.
Lamoille Valley RS3m 7805, the Willard E Little, gets warmed up on a December afternoon in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. After the Maine Central embargoed its Mountain Division, the 27 miles from Whitefield, New Hampshire to St. Johnsbury was acquired by the LVRC an operated as the Twin State Railroad. Soon the Alco will begin its mostly-nocturnal round trip to Whitefield.
Now for something a bit unusual on this Thirty Thursday. At Amtrak's Sanford FL Auto-Train facility on 12 March 1987, we spot General Electric P30CH "Pooch" No. 724, coupled to EMD re-engined Alco RS3m No. 106. The old Alcos were used for work train and other non-revenue service, with a few units like the one pictured, rebuilt to extend their service lives. The boxy GEs, having their origin in the U30C freight engine and the custom Santa Fe U30CG, were used on a few long distance trains but spent most of their times dedicated to the Lorton-Sanford A-T run.
A northbound Lake State freight arrives in Tawas City under threatening skies behind an RS11, C425M and RS3M with 70 ton hoppers piled high up front with Alabaster loads - June 27, 2002.
The Maryland & Delaware Massey Job crosses Walnut Tree Rd. as it approaches Massey, MD on April 13. 2022 with RS-3m No. 1201 and leased BR&W SW1200 No. 1202.
Linking the Detroit & Mackinac in Mackinaw City with the Soo Line at St. Ignace, Chief Wawatam ran back and forth across the Straits of Mackinac until 1984 when the service was ended. In May of 1978, service was still booming, and pulling cars off to take south, DM 975, an Alco RS3M of Boston & Maine origin, the chop nose rebuilt can't compete with the smoke that the Chief is belching out. Photo by Walter Schopp
Maryland & Delaware 1203 arrives at the Delmarva Central interchange in Seaford, DE.
MDDE 1203 RS3M (ex-DLW 914, EL 1052 RS3)
This one-of-a-kind RS3m was created by the shop force at Lone Star Steel on the frame of GM&O RS3 #1522. The unit was sold and ended up at Foster farms in Turlock, CA. I think she has since been retired.
12-12-1983
The Maryland & Delaware Massey job slowly rolls through the Delmarva countryside near Barclays, MD on April 13, 2022 with RS-3m No. 1201 and leased Black River & Western SW1200 No. 1202. The train is comprised of two empty fertilizer cars and 11 grain shuttle loads. MDDE and Delmarva Central have teamed up to operate grain shuttles for Perdue, between outlying grain elevators and the mill at Salisbury.
Maryland & Delaware RR's Massey crew heads for the NS/Delmarva Central RR interchange at Townsend on a nice spring morning. The profile is of RS3m 1201 and borrowed Black River & Western RR SW1200 1202.
Maryland & Delaware 1203 is ready to work Tri-Gas & Oil in Williamsburg (Hurlock), MD. The shadows are still quite long in this early morning view.
MDDE 1203 RS3M (ex-DLW 914, EL 1052 RS3)
With northeast Pennsylvania’s trees in early blaze mode, a northbound Delaware & Hudson train rolls near the quiet borough of New Milford on its way from Scranton to Binghamton. Bicentennial TE56-4A (a Morrison-Knudsen rebuilt RS3) 506 and RS11 5002 are doing the honors.
The crew of Maryland & Delaware's Worton Turn has completed their work at Massey and will soon head west for Worton.
MDDE 1202 RS-3M (ex-DLW 902, EL 1040 RS-3, CR 9926 RS-3M)
THe 3 DS's made a trip over to the DeMarVa Peninsula with our prime objective of photographing the MDDE and their Dewitt RS3M's but that wasn't to be. Our consolation prize was getting DCR freight HA-1 and chasing him down from the interchange point with the NS near Clayton to Harrington. The line is straight and a high tension line is adjacent to the right of way but there are still several former Pennsy stations still standing which is cool . Here HA-1 is doing their brake test. SD40-3 #3502 originally started its career working for the Western Maryland.
Too cool to ignore anymore. For many years I have wanted to photograph the short line Maryland & Delaware and their nicely painted "DeWitt Geeps". A little trip with Stan Short and Jack Bruce finally remedied that situation. Here the Federalsburg crew has just cut off their 3-car inbound train at the Delmarva Central RR yard. Under that long hood is a 12 cylinder 567 EMD engine in place of the ALCo 244 prime mover. MDDE has a trio of these that were redone by ConRail at the Juniata Shops in 1979 - all three were built for the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR
After a whole day of shooting the Hurlock, MD excursions pulled by Maryland and Delaware 1203, the time finally came to capture the last move of the day as the RS3M headed east back to the railroad's shop in Federalsburg. With the sun freshly set to the engine's behind, it was a race into the darkness and by time they parked the engine and set it's brakes little light was left. We would get the MDDE one more time in December of 2024 and then during the month of April 2025 Carload express took over and the RS3Ms have been silent since. Quite a solemn end to these Delmarva classics, though their future is bright on new owner Delaware Lackawanna.
We find unloading of the car ferry Chief Wawatam of her usual assortment of western lumber loads mixed with cars from northern Michigan. The Detroit and Mackinac RS3m 975 with her pair of 40' gondola idler cars works the Chief at Mackinaw City, Michigan on November 10, 1978.
MDDE 1203 trundles across the Marshyhope Creek bridge as they take outbounds for Delmarva Central to Seaford. Carload Express recently announced their agreement to buy and operate MDDE as a subsidiary, putting an end to the small-time shortline living off of as needed customers. It is likely that the power such as this 567 re-powered RS3M will get scrapped.
The line currently operated by the NYS&W in Syracuse, particularly on the west side of town, is a mishmash of former New York Central and Lackawanna trackage. Prior to Susquehanna's takeover of the route, Conrail operated out of the Geddes Street yard to serve a maze of industrial trackage on the outskirts of downtown.
On a typically dismal day in December 1979, the Admiral was taking me to get fitted for a bowling ball (!) and stopped by for a couple pictures of the static activity in the yard. We observed RS3M No. 9964 (DeWitt modification) and 9948 (Altoona modification) idling away amid an assortment of freight cars. Bowling didn't work out but happily I stuck with the train photography.
The Maryland and Delaware shoves a cut of boxes through town to switch Dart Container on the West side of Federalsburg, MD.
Maryland and Delaware RS3M was crossing Marshyhope Creek in Federalsburg with a cut of cars from Seaford on a warm and sunny afternoon on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
The RS3M is living on borrowed time as Delmarva Central has announced it was taking over the MDDE. It's just a matter of time for the former Delaware Lackawanna and Western Alco RS3 built in 1952. It went on to the Erie Lackawanna and then Conrail.
It was rebuilt with an EMD prime mover donated by a retired E8 and operated for Conrail until the early 1980s.
Maryland and Delaware picked up a trio of them and as of this photo only the 1203 remained active.
Not too bad for a locomotive built 73 years ago.
At dusk fresh from receiving new Alco 12-251 engines a pair of Delaware & Hudson RS3m's drop down the siding at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania to get behind this freight for a push up Arrat hill - May 18, 1976.
Three C&NW RS3s roll west with train 495 at Eyota, Minn. on Dec. 11, 1976. Wait you say, that lead unit doesn't looks like an RS3! Indeed, No. 1613 was re-engined by Alco in March 1960 using a 251-engine and an RS11 style hood and was dubbed an "RS3M." One unit will be dropped in Rochester to use as a switcher, with the other two units taking train 495 on to Waseca.
Its February of 1978 and there's been a significant snowfall and a plow train has been called to plow the New Milford Secondary, the ex-NH Berkshire Line from Danbury to New Milford. RS3m 9988, a Flanger and former New Haven caboose make up the train passing through Brookfield, Ct. This was one of my first successful rolls of black and white film that I had processed, after a number of failed attempts.