Someone in the administration office at Monson High School may have noted my absence.
But the freshly fallen snow and Alco RS-11s working the road freight to New London distracted me. Really now, I think that making this sequence of photographs was more important than sitting around in some old classroom.
Now, 34 years later I still don’t think I was wrong. Do you?
Tracking the Light Posts Daily!
The Alco smoke from the No. 2 unit is impressive. Like CIÉ’s A- and C-classes in the Crossley years.
By examining the hi-res scan, I find there are six locomotives; two Alco RS-11 and 4 GP9s.
Perhaps I was saved by the relative rarity of the event. In my day, CV RS-11s leading the road freight in daylight through Monson was unusual. More typically we had GP9s, while the RS-11s tended to work north of Palmer. (Once I learned to drive, there were more days missed at Monson High!)
Those shots are epic ! I think I would have stayed back a grade or two because I would have spent so much time at the tracks ! You did the right thing . Look where you ended up !!
How many locomotives? I reckon at least five, possibly six.
Should have jumped the train!!!