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Viewing Album:  CVRM/Valley Railroad
 
By:BandA Fan
Dates:11/1/1986 - 1/1/1988
Album Info:Origionally created as the Connecticut Valley Railroad Association, the Connecticut Valley Railroad Museum!evewtually morphed into today's Railroad Museum of New England. The CVRA group is the progenitor lf the Valley Railroad at Essex, CT.
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VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  Valley 40 at the north end of Essex yard. Due to heavy rains and flooding earlier in the month which resulted in domage to a bridge just north of Essex, the VRR ran south to Old Saybrook for a while.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:04:47 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
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Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  The 40 has cut off from the train at OSB and gone into the west wye leg. Jim Siebert, on the ground, the ENGR of the 44 tonner, 0800, which was going to pull the train into the east wye leg, advises that it won't start.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:05:44 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  765   Comments: 0
VALE 0800
Title:  VALE 0800
Description:  Jim Siebert and the crew of the 40 consult. Turned out the 0800 had a burned battery cable, but they had to couple back on to the south end of the train and shove it back north to Essex for one trip, till they could get the cable replaced.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:06:45 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Ccrl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2) VALE 800(44Tonner)
Views:  1057   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  40 comes back off the west wye leg to recouple on to her train.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:07:34 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  702   Comments: 0
Wallingford
Title:  Wallingford
Description:  Conductor has "assumed the position" at the rear vestibule with the back-up hose connected to the brake pipe as the train backs north past what would become the CVRM's Bokum Rd. storage facility in a few more years.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:08:21 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  316   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  40 shoving north at the Bokum Rd. site. The siding in the distance is known as the "Army siding".
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:09:17 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  562   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  Thd 40 "tanks up" at Essex. The VRR doesn't have a stand pipe or water tower, so they just stick a hose in the tank.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:10:18 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  873   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  40 still guzzling away.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 6/30/1982 12:00:00 AM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  718   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  Done for the dfy, 40 heads into the pit. Speeder at right is on the main.
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:12:24 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
VALE 40
Title:  VALE 40
Description:  40 running around her train at Essex (backing)
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 10:11:37 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The Tourist Railroad Association (TRAIN) sponsored a fantrip on the Valley Railroad with the 97 and 40 doubleheading for the day. The train is seen arriving in Deep River in the morning.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:25:10 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  629   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The 40 and 97 uncouple from the train to run around it at the north end of the Deep River siding.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:26:04 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  544   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  40 heads south on the main to couple back onto the south end of the train.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:26:42 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2) VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  1131   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  97 will back north out of view and 40 will back the train north of the crossing for a photo.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:27:49 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  40 backing the train out of the north end of the siding at Deep River.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:28:36 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The doubleheader arriving back at Essex.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/26/2006 9:41:18 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1459   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  40 and 97 back down after the first runby for another try at it.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2006 11:27:54 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2) VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  1061   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  NOW, THIS is more like it! The second runby at Centerbrook meadow.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2006 11:29:20 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1093   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  A second shot, a little closer. This is a 300 dpi scan to show the full frame.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2006 11:30:10 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1194   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Same photo as the previous, but a 400 dpi scan and cropped for a tighter frame.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/29/2006 11:31:10 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1371   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The doubleheader pauses in the Centerbrook meadow for a bit, with the 97 sitting on the Falls River bridge. This is the bridge which was partially washed out in 1982, causing the VRR to run south to Old Saybrook, note the new abutment beneath the tender.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:00:58 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  936   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The doubleheader southbound at Bokum Rd., about a mile south of Essex station.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:02:23 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  754   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Going away shot at Bokum Rd. crossing.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:03:23 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  TRAIN 2HDR passing the, then, future site of the CVRM's storage facility along Bokum Rd. in Old Saybrook.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:04:41 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1064   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Going away shot of previous photo at Bokum Rd.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:05:54 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  462   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Doubleheader arrives at the end of the Valley's property, the wye switch marks the beginning of Amtrak property.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:07:22 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Doubleheader pulls down the east wye leg at Old Saybrook. The Amtrak main tracks are hidden behind the hedgerow in the center of the photo. Tracks in the foreground are the old yard tracks, which are long gone, since.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:08:39 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1163   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Engines have uncoupled from the train and are backing on to track 7 to get to the west wye leg, then up to the north end of the train.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 4:09:42 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1263   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  97 and 40 backing westward on track 7 towards the west wye leg. One of these days (?!!) I've got to reshoot this scene to show how much it has changed since.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:26:17 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1232   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Engines coming off the west wye leg. They will back down onto the train sitting on the east wye leg, out of sight behind them.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:27:41 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2) VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  850   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Return trip to Essex, northbound past the future CVRM storage site at Bokum Rd.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:36:37 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  793   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Dropping the train at Essex, the engines make a light engine move back to Old Saybrook to use the wye to reverse direction and get themselves oriented facing southward.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:29:19 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1045   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  A gaggle of chasers, including a certain "fair-haired fella" seen down the platform a ways, watches the 97 and 40 passing OSB tower. That "fair-haired fella" is the late Don Ball.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:30:36 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  977   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  The engines head west on track 7 for the west wye leg.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 1/30/2006 6:31:50 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 40(2-8-2) VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  784   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Arriving back at Essex, the engines pass the train to get on the north end for a run to Deep River and Chester.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 1:59:36 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  856   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Looking north from the south end of the Deep River siding we see the engines coming down the siding to couple on to the south end of the train.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:00:51 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  260   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Engines at the south end of the siding.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:02:05 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  474   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Engines couple on to the south end of the train.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:03:09 PM
Location:  Deep River, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Doubleheader backs to Chester and meets a short freight led by the Valley's 44tonner, 0800.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:04:19 PM
Location:  Chester, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 800(44Tonner)
Views:  947   Comments: 1
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  Doubleheader returning to Essex, just before the shadows close in at Old Deep River Rd. in Centerbrook.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:05:24 PM
Location:  Centerbrook, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  711   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  97 and 40 on the service track at Essex.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:06:22 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0) VALE 40(2-8-2)
Views:  1006   Comments: 0
TRAIN Doubleheader
Title:  TRAIN Doubleheader
Description:  97 and 40 backing down onto the train for the last trip to Old Saybrook.
Photo Date:  11/3/1984  Upload Date: 2/6/2006 2:07:09 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VALE 97(2-8-0)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
AMTK 417 and CR 2685
Title:  AMTK 417 and CR 2685
Description:  AMTK 417 and CR 2685 outside the shop at Essex at the beginning of their restorations. 2685 is NH 2525.
Photo Date:  6/28/1986  Upload Date: 5/15/2005 10:25:09 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 2685(U25B)
Views:  1372   Comments: 2
NH 529
Title:  NH 529
Description:  The, then, CVRM's RS-3, NH 529, after a quick "broom job" in Centerbrook meadow.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 1/18/2006 1:54:38 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NH 529(RS3)
Views:  1569   Comments: 2
NYC 4096
Title:  NYC 4096
Description:  Railroad Museum of New England's restoration "trial horse", E-9 NYC 4096 poses in the meadow at Centerbrook.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:28:32 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 4096(E9A)
Views:  1706   Comments: 1
NYC 4096
Title:  NYC 4096
Description:  Since the NYC never owned any E-9's, but did have E-8's, whose number sequence ended at 4095, this is a "what might have been".
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:28:58 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 4096(E9A)
Views:  2161   Comments: 3
NYC 4096
Title:  NYC 4096
Description:  The Central knew how to make gray look GOOD!
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:29:17 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NYC 4096(E9A)
Views:  1221   Comments: 2
NH 529
Title:  NH 529
Description:  The sole survivor of the New Haven's RS-3 fleet, the RMNE's 529 shows off her fresh paint.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:45:52 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NH 529(RS3)
Views:  1270   Comments: 0
NH 529
Title:  NH 529
Description:  The 529 served Amtrak well as their 138, for several years before the museum acquired her in 1985.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:46:11 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NH 529(RS3)
Views:  1294   Comments: 2
NH 529
Title:  NH 529
Description:  The 529 poses with "ersatz" New Haven NE-3A caboose. (actually ex Pennsy)
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 5/10/2005 7:46:29 PM
Location:  Essex, CT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NH 529(RS3)
Views:  920   Comments: 1

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