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
We’re at the engine facility at the Michigan Northern in Cadillac, Michigan, on June 14, 1978.
Unit 2037 is an ex-Southern Alco RS-3. Former Delaware & Hudson 1216 is a Baldwin RF16A sharknose locomotive.
The smoke billowing over No. 1216 is coming from from 2037. Ex-D&H 1205 is also a Baldwin RF 16A shark.
That was great news that the owner of Baldwin’s last two sharks says he will have them donated to a museum at his death. Here are a couple of shark photos.
In the top image it is late 1968 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where five ex-New York Central sharks plus several Baldwin switchers can be seen in the Monongahela engine facility.
The two units on the left, Nos. 1216 and 1205, are the survivors now being stored in Michigan.
In the bottom photograph it is June 13, 1977, and Delaware & Hudson Nos. 1205 and 1216 (the two survivors) are rounding a curve in Whitehall, New York.
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