Schenectady Built Switchers
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 S1 number 5 and S2 number 3021 are coupled together as they rearrange equipment at the south end of Corinth Yard.
The 660 hp S1 was built in May 1947, and was retained by the company as their plant switcher in Schenectady and is once again dressed in the corporate scheme she wore in those days.
The 1000 hp S2 was built in July 1943 as USAX 7108, then later worked on Staten Island as SIRT 821 and 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 3021 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.
There is no doubting the heritage of this route with the gold lettering still prominent on the thru girder bridge over West Mountain Road 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
Schenectady Built Switchers
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 S1 number 5 and S2 number 3021 are coupled together as they rearrange equipment at the south end of Corinth Yard.
The 660 hp S1 was built in May 1947, and was retained by the company as their plant switcher in Schenectady and is once again dressed in the corporate scheme she wore in those days.
The 1000 hp S2 was built in July 1943 as USAX 7108, then later worked on Staten Island as SIRT 821 and 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 3021 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.
There is no doubting the heritage of this route with the gold lettering still prominent on the thru girder bridge over West Mountain Road 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