Looking Right At Home
Here's another from this fun spring day and this mini chase at the second of two public grade crossings along this rare mileage run. Alco S2 number 3021 brings up the rear of a five car Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway passenger train headed south back to Corinth from Hadley, the first of three roundtrips specially operated for the community's 'Maple In April' festival. This going away view looks south from the Antone Road grade crossing at MP A56 on the former Delaware and Hudson Adirondack Branch.
3021 is not an original Delaware and Hudson unit but is dressed in a historically accurate livery identical to the fifty S2 and S4 series end cab Schenectady built switchers the D&H rostered and which regularly operated over this line decades ago. She was built in Jul. 1943 for the US Army as USAX 7108, then later went to Staten Island as SIRT 821 before migrating north for use on the Upper Hudson Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek, the two predecessor operators of the Adirondack Branch prior to SC&H.
To learn more see the lengthy caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2pQ1wUx
Corinth, New York
Saturday April 27, 2024
Looking Right At Home
Here's another from this fun spring day and this mini chase at the second of two public grade crossings along this rare mileage run. Alco S2 number 3021 brings up the rear of a five car Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway passenger train headed south back to Corinth from Hadley, the first of three roundtrips specially operated for the community's 'Maple In April' festival. This going away view looks south from the Antone Road grade crossing at MP A56 on the former Delaware and Hudson Adirondack Branch.
3021 is not an original Delaware and Hudson unit but is dressed in a historically accurate livery identical to the fifty S2 and S4 series end cab Schenectady built switchers the D&H rostered and which regularly operated over this line decades ago. She was built in Jul. 1943 for the US Army as USAX 7108, then later went to Staten Island as SIRT 821 before migrating north for use on the Upper Hudson Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek, the two predecessor operators of the Adirondack Branch prior to SC&H.
To learn more see the lengthy caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2pQ1wUx
Corinth, New York
Saturday April 27, 2024