><><>< of all the things I photograph I continue to keep "real photo albums" for those visiting me and wish to sit and look thru them...I also have family that don't use PC's (who would have thought) and they so enjoy looking at my albums...and actually there's more in them than the pics in Fotki...more personal photos.... So yes, being the "old fashioned girl" that I am - I keep photo albums to enjoy as well...
This is an RS-1, built by Alco, the successor-name for the American Locomotive Company. The "RS" stands for Road Switcher. and the 1 indicates it is the first of their line of RS type of locomotives. Road Switchers have to be capable of both switch work and running out on the road, actually pulling trains.
This particular one is the first locomotive the DRM owned. It was recently repaired and put back into servece after being idle for about three years.
This one is not a museum exhibit, but was on one of the Metro North trains that runs between Danbury and South Norwalk. The orange stripe tells me that it is owned by the State of Connecticut.
This type of truck is known as a "roadrailer." Many railroads use these in a large number of configurations. In this case we have a rail test vehicle. It had on board a lot of electronic test instruments that would detect the condition of the track over which it was running. Some of the tests were for gauge, rail wear, breaks in the rails, width and/or thickness of the rail heads, shape of the rail head, alignment of rail joints, and much more.
The instruments were all removed before this roadrailer was donated to the DRM.
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