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Russ - I think I see the feature you mentioned. Is it at 42.703185,-74.582247, just north of Bush Street Crossing and east of Cross Road? I doubt that it was a wye. It looks like a gulley there, because the farmer has built a small bridge at the east end of it. The D&H, to the best of my knowled...

The Delaware and Hudson Company and The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation were both Delaware corporations for many years before the 1968 sale. I don't recall what year they were incorporated in Delaware. That was common among many corporations, including the New York Central Railroad Company....

In 1930, the corporate offices of The Delaware and Hudson Company were still at 32 Nassau Street. The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation was organized that year, and its corporate offices were in the same location as the parent D&H Co. By 1946, the corporate offices had been moved to 230 P...

I don't recall any jurisdictional problems between the Champlain and Saratoga Division track men when I was there. The actual division post, and limit of the seniority districts at the time, was MP 79.3, and that has never moved. My track inspector (Morris Alphonse, from Willsboro) just inspected tr...

<< Getting back to the post.about the mileposts being on the east side, 142 at Willsboro is one, but another is mp A63.

>> I never had that territory, so the mileposts around Fort Ann don't stick in my mind.

<< We have covered the Saratoga Sub. pretty extensively, but I would like to know also when the TCS was installed on the Susquehanna Sub. >> TCS on the A&S was incremental. << I have read that the Penn was first. You layed it out how the Oneonta desk ran everything except the interlockings which...

Re: Mileposts Question. Post by Engineer Spike » 30 Jul 2012 22:40 When did the TCS replace the ABS 251 on the 3rd. sub mains? I believe most of the initial TCS work between Saratoga Springs and Whitehall was completed in 1957-1958. It was the Saratoga Subdivision at the time, which extended from m...

Correction: The other (north) side of the milepost "did" show A-26. The painted number is gone. It's been more than 47 years since the D&H painted anything near Round Lake. Every milepost between Albany and Rouses Point via Round Lake had an A mileage and an RP mileage, which added to ...

Russ - Round Lake was 165.3 miles from Rouses Point, and 25.5 miles from Albany. That milepost, on the original R&S main line, was never repainted. The other side of the milepost should show A 26. By the way, I had worked up a detailed response to Spike's question on location of train dispatcher...

I was wondering from the last train photo posted what commodities were received. Looks like feed cars and coal may have been staples ? Any milk traffic still on the line back in the '50's ? Also, where did the crews work out of ? Did these guys regular bid the job or work off the pusher crew list a...

<< In its various incarnations, was it possible to have multiple moves through JS? Spike - >> I'm sure it was possible. In 1952 the Saratoga Division was double track ABS for the entire distance from TS Cabin (Thatcher Street Albany) to SC Cabin, and the Ballston Branch had its southward siding sout...

Spike - My track chart ca. 1971 shows a jog in the Ballston Branch (GV to JS) just north of the NY 67 overhead bridge. It appears that the existing main track would have been east of the other track. My April 27,1952 Time Table 28 shows a southward siding on the Ballston Branch south of JS, but does...

To get the full story of the South Pennsylvania Railroad, read "The Railroad that Never Was," by Herb Harwood, 2010. Briefly, the South Penn wasn't really intended to feed the New York Central at the east end. It would have connected with NYC via the P&LE at its west end. It was really...

In "A Century of Progress," History of the Delaware and Hudson Company, pages 275-277, we find the official account of an interest of The D&H Canal Co. in supporting a railroad from Albany to New Jersey along the west shore of the Hudson River in 1880. The Erie had proposed a joint own...

Spike - In Time Table No. 28 of April 27,1952, the D&H from WY Cabin (WY north of Mechanicville, the connection with the Mechanicville Branch)to SC Cabin (North of Whitehall) was all double track ABS. In 1952, WY Tower was a manned interlocking and telegraph office. JS Cabin, the junction with t...