Snowy Slog
Winter Storm Gail slammed into the northeast the week before Christmas and Washington County was absolutely dumped on with over three feet of snow! The Batten Kill Railroad made a rare Saturday run to help open up the entirety of the railroad. They ran light engine with a pair of classic double headed Alcos: G&J 4116 a veteran ex D&H Alco RS3 (blt. 9/52) and SNEX 5012 an ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) stopping along the way to shovel switches and clear the roads of the snow they would push out on to each crossing. Here they are headed east approaching the busy State Route 22 crossing at Greenwich Jct. where they will head around the south leg of the wye and start plowing south to Shushan, Cambridge, and Eagle Bridge. They are only a mile and half or so from where their day began at the Cargill feed mill west of here. This is about MP 10 on the original Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad and 4116 is very much on her historic home rails. The mileage is measured from Greenwich and this trackage dates from after 1906 when the Delaware and Hudson (which had acquired the little shortline that year) built this approximately 10 mile line east to connect with it's Washington Branch route here at Greenwich Jct. For it's entire life until being sold to the new Batten Kill it was an independent and wholly owned subsidiary of the D&H.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
Snowy Slog
Winter Storm Gail slammed into the northeast the week before Christmas and Washington County was absolutely dumped on with over three feet of snow! The Batten Kill Railroad made a rare Saturday run to help open up the entirety of the railroad. They ran light engine with a pair of classic double headed Alcos: G&J 4116 a veteran ex D&H Alco RS3 (blt. 9/52) and SNEX 5012 an ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) stopping along the way to shovel switches and clear the roads of the snow they would push out on to each crossing. Here they are headed east approaching the busy State Route 22 crossing at Greenwich Jct. where they will head around the south leg of the wye and start plowing south to Shushan, Cambridge, and Eagle Bridge. They are only a mile and half or so from where their day began at the Cargill feed mill west of here. This is about MP 10 on the original Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad and 4116 is very much on her historic home rails. The mileage is measured from Greenwich and this trackage dates from after 1906 when the Delaware and Hudson (which had acquired the little shortline that year) built this approximately 10 mile line east to connect with it's Washington Branch route here at Greenwich Jct. For it's entire life until being sold to the new Batten Kill it was an independent and wholly owned subsidiary of the D&H.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020