Summer Vacation Surprise in Vermont. July 1980.

In July of 1980, My family and Myself took a Motor Coach vacation tour to the New England States. The vacation itself was well appreciated and long overdue. We travelled aboard a Large Motorcoach through a Company Called "Furlough Tours", and visited such places as Rhode Island -Connecticut -New York State -Vermont -Massachusettes and Maine. I don't recall what town this was in, Proboubly a place where the bus tour made a "Rest Stop" to eat.
The familiar rumbling of an Antique early 1950's Vintage ALCO RS-3 diesel switcher and loud squeeling wheel flanges caught my attention. This locomotive from the Vermont Railway would later be sold to a New York State tourist railroad , known today as the "Batten Kill Railroad". This photograph of a Chance Encounter shows how this engine looked , and what kind of work it did in Pre Tourist Railroad Days.