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Spike - Did you mean GV instead of GJ? We had "M" mileposts (Mechanicville) from WY to Schenectady. A virtual M-0 was somewhere around Mechanicville station, I believe, but the physical "M" mile posts began at WY, with M-2/B-147. The M series continued to Schenectady, where there...

You are correct, Mike. Now that I think about it, the mileposts on the Jeff only showed Albany miles after the D&H converted them. The original Erie mile post 0 was either at JA Tower in Lanesboro, just east of Susquehanna Yard, or Susquehanna Station. Jefferson Jct would have been A-141.5. Erie...

I was the Track Supervisor at Oneonta in 1970 when we filled in the scale pit at the top of the southbound hump and reopened the hump yard for operation. It was always a manual hump, with high switch stands (Racor 112's) on the ladder. They didn't normally use hump riders - they controlled the speed...

The D&H track on the Penn Division had mile posts with two numbers - miles from Albany on one side, and from Wilkes-Barre on the other. The "magic number" was 211, so the numbers on each milepost added up to 211. The D&H bought the Jefferson Branch from the Erie about 1955, and I b...

Leonor F. Loree was a Civil Engineering graduate of Rutgers College. From Wikipedia: He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers College in 1877, a Master of Science from Rutgers in 1880, Civil Engineering degree from Rutgers in 1896 and a Doctor of Law degree from Rutgers in 1917. He also...

I have never gotten a clear answer as to where the ore went after it reached Saratoga.It does not seem to have continued as a unit train. Does anyone know? In my D&H time (1966-1972), SC-6 ran as a turn from North Creek to Mohawk and return. None of the blocks in SC-6 were handled as unit train...

Noel is correct - the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge had third rail all the way across on both tracks. Although it was "electrified" for train movement, the bridge itself was operated by a steam engine on the swing span, at least through 1961. I remember sending a car of coal to the bridge from Yon...

"Stamford is 88071, Hobart is 88075, Oneonta is 88104." In this case, the last three digits correspond with the actual distance from the West Shore crossing at Kingston, and not the mileposts. The mileposts (and older U&D station numbers) represented miles from Kingston Point. I was wr...

The tunnel had two tracks in 1961, when I last worked as second trick yard clerk at Westchester Ave. I had to go to Port Morris many nights for a yard check, and I never walked through the tunnel. If our conductor was still around that late, he would go with me, but I usually just borrowed the yard ...

The Ulster and Delaware, until it was taken over by the NYC in 1932, showed a station number in the Employes Time Table, along with telegraph office calls and open hours, on pages separate from the schedule pages. The schedule pages showed the station milepost to the nearest mile and tenth. The stat...

Paul is correct about the actual location of the A&P. Elmsford, the open agency station at the time, was at MP 14.85. Beaver Hill, now just about the location of Beaver Hill Road crossing, was MP 15.70. A&P was just west of the crossing, on the north (RR) side of the track. East View, MP 17....

A&P was located at East View. It was the end of the Put at the time.

Until July 1, 1968, The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation was a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Delaware and Hudson Company. By that time, the coal mining subsidiary of The D&H Co., Hudson Coal, had been sold to Glen Alden Coal Co, so most of the assets of The D&H Co. were in The D&...

If anyone wants to restore this, the color on D&H trucks of that vintage was standard Ford red. While I was working for the NYC in Ohio, I bought a red 1966 F-250. About six months later I had come to the D&H and became Track Supervisor at Plattsburgh. My D&H truck there was the K-288, a...

All NYC divisions on LInes Buffalo and East used a common switch key, at least when I started in 1958 and certainly long before that. Western District former LS&MS lines Cleveland and west used a different key, called a "Moon" key after a former General Manager of the LS&MS. The Mo...