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Born and raised in New England. Here is that same engine, blue B&M refurbished and re painted now at Conway Scenic Railway in NH still has B&M road name. My wife and I rode this train about 15 years ago through the wilds of NH. Picture by Wally Hills.
 

It's a cloudy spring day in 1953, and photographer Tom McNamara is on the Route 118 overpass at East Litchfield, Conn.,
watching this New Haven Railroad diesel locomotive couple onto the freight train, after setting two boxcars out on the
siding at right. That's a lumber, coal, and oil dealer that existed until the late 1970s. The dual-purpose ALCo diesel is not
quite 3 years old; it might handle a freight like this Waterbury-Winsted run one day, and the Winsted-Bridgeport passenger
train the next. RMNE has the only one of these locomotives left (out of 45) from the New Haven Railroad, number 529,
now undergoing restoration at Thomaston.
 
How weird is that! I was born 60 miles away in Massachusetts in May of 1953! Cool pic! My grandfather was a brakeman and then car knocker for NYCRR at the North Adams Junction in Pittsfield MA retiring in 1959. I remember these Alco switchers at the junction in NYCRR colors.
 
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