An Amtrak Acela Express train speeds south through Old Saybrook, CT. on Sept. 6, 2013
Tired of being inside while the weather was so beautiful, and a little bummed about not having had much time to be trackside over the summer, a friend and I took a day back in September and drove to the Connecticut shore. We made a stop in Essex to take a look at the steam operation (not really my thing, but the ancient GE diesels on the property were neat) then spent quite a bit of time around Old Saybrook and Old Lyme before working our way back north through Berlin and Windsor Locks.
Valley RR #0901, an early General Electric 80 Tonner, believed to be one of the oldest regularly operating diesel electric locomotives in the US.
The drivers of Valley RR #40, a 2-8-2 Mikado, as it waits to depart from Essex, CT.
Amtrak GP38H-3 #526 and a sister unit approach the platform at Old Saybrook, CT heading north.
Amtrak AEM7 #924 hauls a regional train south through Old Saybrook, CT.
An Amtrak regional train leaves the station at Old Saybrook, CT.
A northbound Acela Express skirts the Connecticut River estuary in Old Lyme, Ct.
The Old Saybrook – Old Lyme bascule bridge across the Connecticut River.
Slowing for the Connecticut River crossing a southbound Acela Express train picks it’s way through tidal wetlands.
An AEM7 accelerates a northbound regional train as it leaves the Connecticut River bridge.
Leaning into a curve a northbound Amtrak regional train heads towards Providence.
A southbound Amtrak shuttle train slows for a station stop at Berlin, CT.
The only freight of the day, a northbound Connecticut Southern train with GP38 #3851 trailing makes its way north through Windsor Locks, CT.
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Nice pictures! Interesting to see GP-38s working in Amtrak colors.