Excursion sponsored by Conn. Valley chapter of the NRHS enters New Britain on a Hartford-Waterbury-Derby Jct. round trip with what would eventually become VRR #97 in charge. The 97 was built by Alco/Cooke in Nov. 1923 as a "stock" loco and sold to the Birmingham & South Eastern as their #200 in 1926. After leading an uneventful life in Alabama, the engine was purchased by New York businessman Stephen Bogen in 1964.

Photographed by BandAfan, October, 1966.
Added to the photo archive by Carl Weber Jr., October 29, 2003.
Railroad: New Haven.

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