We detrained from the Essex Steam Train and headed to the rear of the train to watch the steam engine.
The steam engine would head to the front of the train for the next trip north.
Valley Railroad 80 ton switcher 0901, nee United States Navy 65-00430 built by General Electric in 1940.
Valley Railroad 80 ton switcher 0900, nee General Electric 19 built by General Electric in 1947 as their shop switcher.
Pennsylvania Railroad caboose 477449 built by the railroad in 1926. Now to the consist of the Essex Clipper Dinner Train.
Essex Clipper Dinner Train kitchen car "Colonial Hearth", ex. Valley Railroad "Westerly", nee United States Army 896xx built by St. Louis Car Company in 1953.
Essex Clipper Dinner Train parlour-double bedroom "Meriden", ex. New Haven "Plymouth", exx. Penn Central 7112, built by Pullman in 1924 as "Provincetown".
Essex Clipper Dinner Train 42 seat parlour-lounge 4075 "Wallingford", ex. Reader Railroad 500, exx. Kansas City Southern 501, exxx. Wabash "Wayfarer", exxxx. Pullman "Wayfarer", nee 36 seat parlor lounge "Wallingford" built by Pullman in 1927.
Essex Clipper Dinner Train parlour-double bedroom "Da Costa", ex. Toledo, Lake Erie and Western, ex. Pennsylvania Railroad maintenance-of-way 492115 1956, nee Pennsylvania Railroad 7068 1945 built by Pullman in 1927.
Valley Railroad box car 9435 built by Pullman-Standard in 1961.
Valley Railroad 2-8-0 97 built by Alco Cooke in 1923 as one of three built for stock to a standard design for Cuban sugar plantations. When the Cooke plant was closed in 1926, it was finally sold to the Birmingham & Southeastern Railroad in northern Alabama where it was numbered 200. It hauled freight and passenger trains until about 1958 when it was retired and went into storage. It was bought by Stephen D. Bogen in 1963 and moved to the Vermont Railway at Burlington the following year. Re-numbered 97 to avoid conflict with VTR diesel 200, it went on to haul excursions on the New Haven Railroad until 1968 and moved to the Valley Railroad in 1970, going into service in 1973.
A Valley Railroad tender.
Connecticut Valley open platform coach "Trackside Cafe", nee Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 565 by Pullman in 1914.
The Essex freight station built in the late 1800's.
Valley Railroad hi-rail truck.
New York Central horse-express car 56xx built by the railroad in 1925. Later became New York Central 8770 and is numbered that now.
Erie Railroad box car 86302 built by the railroad in 1952.
New York Central 40 foot double-door automobile box car 41276 built by the railroad and later converted to a steam generator car for use at the Poughkeepsie, New York station.
Valley Railroad ballast hopper car W-272.
Union Tank Car one-dome tank car 94460 built by the company in 1954.
Box car of unknown origin.
Lehigh & New England Railroad gondola 728.
Valley Railroad 0-6-0T 2, ex. City of Peabody, Massachusetts 2006, exx. JRM Hauling and Recyling in Newbury, Massachusetts, exxx. R.B. Strong 1986, exxxx. Steamtown Foundation 1965, exxxxx. Simons Wrecking post World War II, exxxxxx. United States Navy, Norfolk Navy Yard during World War II, nee Barium Steel Company 1941, built by Porter in 1920.
Now for some pictures of New Haven 2-8-2 3025.
New Haven 2-8-2 3025.
A steamroller.
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington wedge snowplough built by the railroad in 1913 and has no number.
Valley Railroad baggage car 400, nee Pennsylvania Railroad 9284 built by American Car and Foundry in 1928.
Connecticut Valley Railroad coach 1001 nee Central of New Jersey 1139 built by Standard Steel in 1924.
Connecticut Valley Railroad coach 1000 "Putnam", ex. Chessie Steam Special 3, exx. Chessie Steam Special 6, nee Central of New Jersey 1000 built by American Car and Foundry in 1923.
New Haven Railroad 40 foot flat car 17704 built by the railroad in 1953.
New Haven Railroad 40 foot box car 35386 built by Pullman Standard in 1948.
Valley Railroad sleeping car 810 "Lindsay", ex. Stephen McAllister, exx. Brett Gretmuller, exxx. Canadian National maintenance-of-way 54952 1979, exxxx. Canadian National 8 section-1 double bedroom-2 compartment sleeper 1814 "Lindsay" 1947, nee Canadian National heavyweight 12 section-1 1 double bedroom sleeper 1573 "Lindsay" built by Canadian Car and Foundry in 1923.
Valley Railroad 10-section observation lounge "Monte Viso" built by Pullman in 1925 by Pullman. It was later rebuilt by Pullman and re-named "Capital Road" then sold to Chicago and North Western in 1948 and numbered 400 "Wyoming". Later it was sold to a private owner and re-named "Carolyn".
The next steam train north was getting ready to leave Essex and we would photograph this event.
The steam engine put on a fantastic show of sight and sound as it departed.
On the walk back to the car, one more picture of the Essex station after which we drove over to where more freight cars were parked.
A look at the Valley Railroad.
Maine Central box car 6364 built by MCC in 1942.
Pullman 16 section sleeper "Navarre" built by the company in 1913 and rebuilt to a diner-parlour-observation car and sold to New York Central as their 499 "Toreador".
A caboose under wraps. We would like to thank the Essex Steam Train for having us today. It was a great trip and we had a fantastic time here. We took Connecticut 9 south to Interstate 95 to East New Haven and our next stop of this trip.
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