Finding a Shark at Work in Michigan

It is June 14, 1978, in Cadillac, Michigan. As I recall, the owner of the Castolite company had purchased the ex-Delaware & Hudson Sharks and had leased both 1205 and 1216 to the Michigan Northern Railroad. My good friend Charlie Wilson (John Woodworth’s cousin) and I found 1216 still wearing a D&H warbonnet paint scheme. The 1216 spent a few minutes moving cars around that morning which made our short time on the Michigan Northern even better.

Photograph by Robert Farkas

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