Cooler Days
Man is it HOT today, so let's cool down with another from this fabulous day out a year and a half ago.
Winter Storm Gail had 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 in the little village of Shushan a passing motorist dropped the blade on his pick up and made a few passes to help out his neighbors on the rails.
This view looks south as SNEX 5012 in its D&H-esque paint pauses beside another Alco paying homage in paint to the much beloved home road whose rails these once were. Snow covered 3021 at left is a privately owned Alco S-2 switcher (blt. Jul. 1943 originally for the US Army) and is fully operational.
This is about MP A132 on the old Delaware and Hudson Washington branch measured to Albany by way of Castleton on the Rutland branch, then west to Whitehall and south on the Mainline to Mechanicville via Round Lake and on to Albany Union Station.
Hamlet of Shushan
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
Cooler Days
Man is it HOT today, so let's cool down with another from this fabulous day out a year and a half ago.
Winter Storm Gail had 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 in the little village of Shushan a passing motorist dropped the blade on his pick up and made a few passes to help out his neighbors on the rails.
This view looks south as SNEX 5012 in its D&H-esque paint pauses beside another Alco paying homage in paint to the much beloved home road whose rails these once were. Snow covered 3021 at left is a privately owned Alco S-2 switcher (blt. Jul. 1943 originally for the US Army) and is fully operational.
This is about MP A132 on the old Delaware and Hudson Washington branch measured to Albany by way of Castleton on the Rutland branch, then west to Whitehall and south on the Mainline to Mechanicville via Round Lake and on to Albany Union Station.
Hamlet of Shushan
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020