More D&H anniversary steam excursion pictures (May 1973)

Some pictures of the D&H's 150th anniversary celebration were were featured last month. Here are a few more, which were taken in May of 1973. Information on the slides is noted when possible.

Both engines doubleheading at Westport (between Ticonderoda and Plattsburgh) in May 1973.

D&H #302 at Colonie, NY sometime in May 1973. Note the auxiliary tender.

D&H #302 at Colonie, NY on May 12, 1973. Look how clean she is!

D&H #302 crossing the Barge Canal in Waterford, NY on May 12, 1973. This is one of my favorite shots.

D&H #302 at Gouldsboro, PA on May 27, 1973.

D&H 653 at "Riverside" Vermont in August 1973. Maybe it was going back to Steamtown?

Taken in Lanesboro, PA.

I am going to guess somewhere "up north" in the Adirondacks.

 

I have no data on this picture, but the mixed consist of coaches (including what looks like Amtrak) makes me wonder if this was after the engine was returned and used on the Reading Ramblers but it hadn't been repainted yet.

While occasionally today there are mainline steam trains run using Union Pacific, Nickel Plate Road, or Norfolk and Western locomotives, rarely do they venture up into New England. Some shortlines in the area use steam engines, but they don't run at mainline speeds. I think the most recent "large steam" excusion in New York was when Norfolk Southern ran NKP #765 over the newly completed Letchworth Gorge bridge in 2015. And though you didn't ask, Union Pacific #8444 is my favorite large mainline steam engine because it was shown at the beginning of every episode of Shining Time Station.