Visited Georgetown on Monday 3 April and have a few additions to AlmostCrazy25’s excellent report:
The T-6 and RS-36 #2 were inside the shop. The RS-36 is due to go off line soon to have wheel work done.
B23-7 #4024 was sitting outside the shop, short hood facing east, which means that the short hood will be facing west when it runs around the train in Lewes and pushes the caboose and cars east over the swing bridge to Barcroft.
The 44-tonner is parked on a siding about a quarter mile north of the crossing in Ellendale. You can’t see it from the highway crossing and may have to hike in to photograph it. (Make sure you obey the 25 mph speed limit in town!)
RS-18 in Dagsboro faces long hood (“F” end) south, but has had its front steps pushed in after being run against a dirt pile!
RS-1 #23, still in primer and with a cracked block, is parked on a wooded siding not far from the Georgetown enginehouse, along with perhaps four of the ex-NH flute-side passenger cars. It didn’t appear very photographable. Some old heavy-weight passenger cars plus several ex-Amtrak cars can also be seen through the trees.
A word of caution: this whole area is within the Georgetown Airport complex, and appears to be patrolled by DE state troopers, so be careful you don’t linger or attract attention to yourself! The DCL people in the engine house area, though, are pretty cool. Incidentally, there’s a small museum on the other side of the airport, open weekends, which hosts several Mig jets, including a Mig-21.
Perhaps the best news about the DCL, though, is that rail service may be returning to the Milton branch, perhaps as early as this fall! An LPG dealer is setting up shop just outside Milford where Route 30 crosses the tracks and wants to use the railroad to receive cars. Needless to say, the tracks will require some work. Up until now, the line has been used only to store empty grain hoppers (the last three were finally hauled out and pushed by crane down to the Ellendale interchange with N-S back in December).
