For a couple years in the early 1980s, the Valley Railroad operated an Essex-Old Saybrook shuttle service that provided an arranged connection with Amtrak corridor trains. This train usually ran with the VRR's GE 44-Tonner diesel, but for the first day of service on August 1, 1980, 2-8-0 97 did the honors. Here the VRR train waits on the wye as the Amtrak conection departs.

Photographed by Tom Nelligan, August 1, 1980.
Added to the photo archive by Tom Nelligan, July 27, 2018.
Railroad: Valley Railroad.

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