A Splash Of Sun
This was the start to a fabulous day spent with good friends on a private photo freight charter south from Corinth. This view was captured at the Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway's compact station and yard area located at at MP 54.5 on the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Adirondack Branch. For the moment there are three units coupled together: Alco RS3s 4103 and 4118 and S2 3021.
The two former were built new for the Delaware and Hudson Railway in Sep. and Oct. 1952 respectively and were acquired in mid 2024 from Genesee Valley Transportation where they had run most recently on the Delaware-Lackanna Railway out of Scranton. The latter was built in July 1943 as USAX 7108 and later was SIRT 821 then kept the same number working for both predecessor tourist railroads here, Upper Hudson River Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek. While not an original Delaware and Hudson unit it 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.
Ultimately we would elect not to take the switcher and our train once built would consist of the two road switchers, three former refrigerated boxcars, a single side dump gondola, and a bay window caboose.
Corinth, New York
Sunday April 27, 2025
A Splash Of Sun
This was the start to a fabulous day spent with good friends on a private photo freight charter south from Corinth. This view was captured at the Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway's compact station and yard area located at at MP 54.5 on the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Adirondack Branch. For the moment there are three units coupled together: Alco RS3s 4103 and 4118 and S2 3021.
The two former were built new for the Delaware and Hudson Railway in Sep. and Oct. 1952 respectively and were acquired in mid 2024 from Genesee Valley Transportation where they had run most recently on the Delaware-Lackanna Railway out of Scranton. The latter was built in July 1943 as USAX 7108 and later was SIRT 821 then kept the same number working for both predecessor tourist railroads here, Upper Hudson River Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek. While not an original Delaware and Hudson unit it 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.
Ultimately we would elect not to take the switcher and our train once built would consist of the two road switchers, three former refrigerated boxcars, a single side dump gondola, and a bay window caboose.
Corinth, New York
Sunday April 27, 2025