Dansville & Mt. Morris Railroad

conrail71 wrote:When I was by there in early October I could have sworn I saw another locomotive on the property. It looked like it was maroon in color and had a nose similar to an F 40.
Mike

could have been an Old CN GP38 or GP40L some of them were sold off to leasing company's.

There are still a number of F40PH's that are still in passenger use out there, and a number that were converted to freight service and in use by some shortlines.

One of only two photos I took of the D&MM. 1973 *I think*

Check out the not-quite-regulation outfit on the brakie - hey, it was the '70s, you know...



[edit: cleaned up photo for greater contrast -otto-]

Nice photo........and the brakie fit right in for the times.

Today? Not so much!

Charlie

The new May issue of Railpace has an artcile on the DMM when the Hart family ownws it:

http://www.railpace.com/

The 44 tonners were painted orange then.

thebigham wrote: The 44 tonners were painted orange then.

Weren't they always Orange?

Was #2 (ex-B&H D-1) painted orange when she arrived in 1971? Or was she still wearing black and yellow?

Weren't the M&MM diesels white and green for a while?

I've seen very few color photos of the D&MM 44 tonners.

I've still seen quite a few Wind Turbines stock piled there. As of late a few blades loaded on trailers apparently ready to be shipped out.
So i presume they still receive them via rail and this location serves as a staging area?

Mark

Regarding the D&MM 44-tonners, one of them (#1) was the very last 44-tonner delivered by GE on 10/19/1956. It was (is?) serial number 32664. I don't know if it still exists. Someone here has pictures of the pair of them being sent out to the Cape Cod area I believe, but I don't know what happened to them after that.

Orange and black from day one.

thebigham wrote:Weren't the M&MM diesels white and green for a while?

I've seen very few color photos of the D&MM 44 tonners.

Benjamin Maggi wrote: Someone here has pictures of the pair of them being sent out to the Cape Cod area I believe, but I don't know what happened to them after that.

That would be me!

The Dansville & Mount Morris existed as the DMM between 1891 and 1985.
In 1985, the DMM was taken over by and absorbed into the Genesee & Wyoming.

In 1986 I was a teenage railfan over in Waverly, NY, along Conrail's Southern Tier Main.
One day, I was hanging around the tracks with my camera, as was my custom, when an eastbound Guilford/D&H
train came through trailing two unusual orange switchers! At the time, I had no idea what they were,
but I snapped the pictures anyway! Decades later I learned they were the last two DMM
locomotives which had just left Dansville for the last time, heading east to their new owner, Bay Colony
in Massachusetts. This was the first and last time I ever saw any DMM motive power in person!

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In 1998, DMM 1 was with the Adrian & Blissfield, and DMM 2 was with the SRR of NJ.
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I'll google around for them, and see where they are today..
Scot

DMM No. 1
The last 44 tonner built.
Built new as DMM1, 1956.
To Bay Colony in 1986.
To Adrian & Blissfield - stored in 1995.
To Charlotte Southern No. 3, in 1998.

In 2015, she still exists, and is still in use!
Hauling the Charlotte Southern dinner train in Charlotte Michigan.

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video from 2012:
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Scot

Is the other 44 tonner still running? She is former D1 from the Bath & Hammondsport RR, as well being ex-DMM, so I especially interested in her story.

DMM No. 2
Originally Bath & Hammondsport D-1, built 1949.
To DMM 2, April 1971.
To Bay Colony in 1986.
to SRRNJ 410, in 1998.
Scrapped by the SRNJ in June 2012.

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Scot