Hi, Even though the weather looked awful when Dale and I left Wilmington, DE on Friday morning for the Delmarva Peninsular being the intrpeid railfans that we are we carried on. Information we obtained the previous afternoon from the Maryland & Delaware indicated a crew would be on duty about 7:00 AM in Massey, MD and would leave for Townsend, DE (the interchange for this part of the MDE with the Delmarva Central) around 7:45 AM. However, as we approached Massey at about 7:30 AM Dale spotted the crew heading east light engine.
We caught the locomotive at Grears Corner Road near Townsend.
While the crew picked up six tank cars in Townsend we looked for a spot to photograph the train and decided to return to Grears Corner Road.
Next up was Golts, MD.
At Massey we paused to photograph a former Conrail SW-7 and a rebuilt RS-3 sitting dead
and then moved west of town. The train, when it arrived, now had three different tank cars.
We continued following the train photographing it at Lambson Forest Rd.,
Kennedyville,
East of Lynch,
and Lynch.
On arrival in Worton, MD the crew spent a little more than an hour switching the Eastman Chemical facility there. The photo above shows the train leaving Worton for Massey. At this point we headed for Dover, and lunch with Dale's friend Brian Jenkins and his family. Brian would be the engineer on the Delmarva Central's local DO1 that afternoon.
Here's Brian in the cab of one of the two locomotives assigned to DO1 doing some switching.
More views of the switching in the small yard in Dover before beginning to service industries (above and below).
After working at Kraft Foods, next to the Dover Yard, the crew headed for a Propane dealer in Cheswold, DE where we were waiting to photograph the switching operation (above and three below) as the crew picked up and spotted cars/
We then moved about a 1/2 mile further along the line toward Clayton to photograph the train one last time coming and
going. Thanks for looking.
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