Rexleigh Covered Bridge
"Greenwich and Johnsonville" 4116 eases over Rexleigh Rd as viewed from inside the appropriately named Rexleigh Covered Bridge. The 1874 wood structure provides a unique frame for the 1952 RS3, originally built for the Deleware and Hudson. Today the 4116 works on the Batten Kill Railroad, named for the river that I was standing over in the bridge while taking this shot. The crew has been making their way north over the course of this Friday morning from the Pan Am interchange at Eagle Bridge, NY. Their progress was temporary halted by having to fix a pop-out in the surfacing of a crossing in Cambridge, but after a couple hours of switching from running to the train to doing trackwork and back again (gotta love shortline railroading!) the crew continued their amble northward. Here at Rexleigh Road the crew is dropping their inbound loads and will head light up to the co-op at Greenwich Junction to tie up for the weekend.
My Dad and I made a trip to the Northeast at the end of May, mostly on a baseball adventure seeing a Boston Red Sox game and minor league games in four different states, and a trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. We conveniently made an overnight stop in southwest Vermont, and back when we were planning the trip I'll admit the idea that the Batten Kill wasn't far away did pop into my mind. But I figured what are the odds the the elusive little shortline would happen to run on the one morning we were around? Well, thanks to some intel from the folks in the BKRR Facebook page, it turned out the crew had made a run south to the interchange on Thursday afternoon, and staged the train to run north on Friday morning - we were in business! It was a fun little chase of the Alco through the spring greenery of Eastern New York - a nice bonus on what was a great trip!
Rexleigh Covered Bridge
"Greenwich and Johnsonville" 4116 eases over Rexleigh Rd as viewed from inside the appropriately named Rexleigh Covered Bridge. The 1874 wood structure provides a unique frame for the 1952 RS3, originally built for the Deleware and Hudson. Today the 4116 works on the Batten Kill Railroad, named for the river that I was standing over in the bridge while taking this shot. The crew has been making their way north over the course of this Friday morning from the Pan Am interchange at Eagle Bridge, NY. Their progress was temporary halted by having to fix a pop-out in the surfacing of a crossing in Cambridge, but after a couple hours of switching from running to the train to doing trackwork and back again (gotta love shortline railroading!) the crew continued their amble northward. Here at Rexleigh Road the crew is dropping their inbound loads and will head light up to the co-op at Greenwich Junction to tie up for the weekend.
My Dad and I made a trip to the Northeast at the end of May, mostly on a baseball adventure seeing a Boston Red Sox game and minor league games in four different states, and a trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. We conveniently made an overnight stop in southwest Vermont, and back when we were planning the trip I'll admit the idea that the Batten Kill wasn't far away did pop into my mind. But I figured what are the odds the the elusive little shortline would happen to run on the one morning we were around? Well, thanks to some intel from the folks in the BKRR Facebook page, it turned out the crew had made a run south to the interchange on Thursday afternoon, and staged the train to run north on Friday morning - we were in business! It was a fun little chase of the Alco through the spring greenery of Eastern New York - a nice bonus on what was a great trip!