Penn Central said no more trips (some were planned for the 1969 season). 97 could handle 5 of the Osgood Bradley 1930s lightweight coaches, and usually one of the postwar New Haven 'County' parlor-bagg cars (with the booze removed for the weekend at a cost of $25 to the trip operator). The New Haven ran a number of trips using Bogen's #97, starting in fall 1966 and finishing in October 1968. The gent in bibs leaning over to pick up the water hose looks like Bob Lyon, who had worked with ESRM's #103 at Middletown, NY and would be active at Valley Railroad in Essex in 1970-71. The fedora'd gent leaning out of 97's cab is the NH road foreman (Bert Bacon). 2-8-0 #97 (owned by Steve Bogen) would meet up with NH RS-3 529 18 years later in Essex. Note the lineup of New Haven RS-3s around the Danbury turntable. This may have been in conjunction with 'Canaan Old Railroad Days' event in that year. This is an August 1968 trip from Danbury to Canaan, CT.
