Looking Like A Little Local
While the focus of this day would revolve around the pair of RS3s I did capture a couple shots of the other Alcos while our private photo freight charter was being readied by the wonderful Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway folks. SCH Alco S2 3021 is lettered for the Delaware and Hudson though she is not an original D&H unit.
Built in July 1943 as USAX 7108 she later worked on Staten Island as SIRT 821 then kept the same number after moving north to work for both predecessor tourist railroads here, the Upper Hudson River Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek. The classy end cab is dressed in a historically accurate livery identical to the fifty S2 and S4 series Schenectady built switchers the D&H rostered and which regularly operated over this line decades ago.
She has a hold of what would be our photo freight consist of three former refrigerated boxcars, a single side dump gondola, and a bay window caboose seen here just north of the West Mountain Road underpass at MP 54.3 on the former Adirondack Branch Main just north of the junction with the moribund Palmers Falls Branch that reached the once massive and busy International Falls paper plant.
Corinth, New York
Sunday April 27, 2025
Looking Like A Little Local
While the focus of this day would revolve around the pair of RS3s I did capture a couple shots of the other Alcos while our private photo freight charter was being readied by the wonderful Saratoga, Corinth and Hudson Railway folks. SCH Alco S2 3021 is lettered for the Delaware and Hudson though she is not an original D&H unit.
Built in July 1943 as USAX 7108 she later worked on Staten Island as SIRT 821 then kept the same number after moving north to work for both predecessor tourist railroads here, the Upper Hudson River Railroad and then the Saratoga and North Creek. The classy end cab is dressed in a historically accurate livery identical to the fifty S2 and S4 series Schenectady built switchers the D&H rostered and which regularly operated over this line decades ago.
She has a hold of what would be our photo freight consist of three former refrigerated boxcars, a single side dump gondola, and a bay window caboose seen here just north of the West Mountain Road underpass at MP 54.3 on the former Adirondack Branch Main just north of the junction with the moribund Palmers Falls Branch that reached the once massive and busy International Falls paper plant.
Corinth, New York
Sunday April 27, 2025