Monochrome Monday
A wider take on this scene for Monochrome Monday that really just looks right in black and white I think
As a couple of guys have stepped out of the Governor's Tavern and are marveling at two big EMD SD40-2s on CSXT train L022 growling past as they muscle a heavy cut of loaded grain hoppers up the brutal 3.22% from CSXT's yard down at river level beside Amtrak's Hudson Line main. They have made the 90 degree turn at the top of the hill at MP QCV 1 on the Claverack Industrial Track and and crossed Union Street and are making their 350 ft run down two blocks of South 7th Street before they will cut through the middle of the town square then passing the old Hudson Upper Depot.
Still sporting its nose light and original number is CSXT 8128 which was built in Aug. 1980 for Clinchfield with the same number but delivered in Family Lines grey paint. Coupled behind is CSXT 8854 blt. Aug. 1978 as Conrail 6496 which is very much on its historic home rails.
This Selkirk based job solely exists to serve the ADM flour mill located in the former Lone Star Cement facility which is now the only reason this unique line survives. This two and half mile long spur off the former New York Central main is actually former Boston and Albany trackage having been built in 1838 as the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad. It was sold at foreclosure to the Western Railroad of Massachusetts in 1854 and became part of the new Boston and Albany system in 1870. A year later the upper depot which survives as a cool brewery just a thousand feed behind was constructed by the B&A. At its peak in the 1880s four round trip passenger trains and a northbound mixed called there every day but by 1933 passenger service had ended. The 17 miles between Hudson and Chatham were sustained largely by cement traffic moving east to Boston, until 1959 when the line was severed east of Claverack and abandoned through Mellenville and Ghent (via the Upper Harlem Line) to Chatham where it met the B&A mainline. Another mile and half from the feed mill in the center of Claverack hung on nearly two more decades until it too succumbed shortly after the coming of Conrail leaving only what survives today reaching about 2.5 miles to the mill in Greenport Center.
Hudson, New York
Friday December 6, 2024
Monochrome Monday
A wider take on this scene for Monochrome Monday that really just looks right in black and white I think
As a couple of guys have stepped out of the Governor's Tavern and are marveling at two big EMD SD40-2s on CSXT train L022 growling past as they muscle a heavy cut of loaded grain hoppers up the brutal 3.22% from CSXT's yard down at river level beside Amtrak's Hudson Line main. They have made the 90 degree turn at the top of the hill at MP QCV 1 on the Claverack Industrial Track and and crossed Union Street and are making their 350 ft run down two blocks of South 7th Street before they will cut through the middle of the town square then passing the old Hudson Upper Depot.
Still sporting its nose light and original number is CSXT 8128 which was built in Aug. 1980 for Clinchfield with the same number but delivered in Family Lines grey paint. Coupled behind is CSXT 8854 blt. Aug. 1978 as Conrail 6496 which is very much on its historic home rails.
This Selkirk based job solely exists to serve the ADM flour mill located in the former Lone Star Cement facility which is now the only reason this unique line survives. This two and half mile long spur off the former New York Central main is actually former Boston and Albany trackage having been built in 1838 as the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad. It was sold at foreclosure to the Western Railroad of Massachusetts in 1854 and became part of the new Boston and Albany system in 1870. A year later the upper depot which survives as a cool brewery just a thousand feed behind was constructed by the B&A. At its peak in the 1880s four round trip passenger trains and a northbound mixed called there every day but by 1933 passenger service had ended. The 17 miles between Hudson and Chatham were sustained largely by cement traffic moving east to Boston, until 1959 when the line was severed east of Claverack and abandoned through Mellenville and Ghent (via the Upper Harlem Line) to Chatham where it met the B&A mainline. Another mile and half from the feed mill in the center of Claverack hung on nearly two more decades until it too succumbed shortly after the coming of Conrail leaving only what survives today reaching about 2.5 miles to the mill in Greenport Center.
Hudson, New York
Friday December 6, 2024