With facilities in Middletown, Durham, Guilford, Higganam, as well as the headquarters in Essex, the E.E. Dickenson Co. kept the New Haven plenty busy switching out carloads in efforts to maintain it's role of providing half the world's supply of witch hazel.
This scene, a Lerro Productions recreation in conjunction with the Valley Railroad. This engine, sister to Susquehanna /Bel-Del's #142 was built by Tangshan Locomotive Works in China in 1989 for the Knox & Kane Railroad as # 58. When that operation shutdown, the Valley purchased it for use on it's former New Haven lineage excursion line. Extensive modifications were made to Americanize and "Hew Haven-ize" the engine including a new cab with arched windows, and extensive work to rebuild the slope back tender with it's handle rails into a proper New Haven look. Not only that, but the engine is fitted with genuine New Haven headlights, bell, whistle, and marker lights - about all that is left of the New Haven regarding it's steam fleet. bw
