Saturday, March 31, 2007

Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #9



Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in April, 1896, builder #4408.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Bennington & Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #7 "M.S. Colburn"


Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1873, builder #189 for the New York, Boston and Montreal Railway #3.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Monday, March 26, 2007

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Lehigh & New England Locomotive #709


LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND 709

Alco FA-1 No. 709 is being readied for a run at the Penn Argle, Pa. enginehouse, August 22, 1953. In about eight years the railroad would cease operation on October 31, 1961.

Photo by Joseph Stark

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #1219


Built by ALCO Schenectady in 1918.

First all welded boiler on a locomotive in the United States.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Lehigh Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #475

At Sayre, Pennsylvania in 1936.

Built ALCO - Schenectady in February 1924, builder #65133.
Scrapped September 1949.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #1057


Built in Schenectady in 1912, builder #51086.
Engine blew up on ash pit of Turcott Engine Terminal, Montreal on February 2, 1947, while on lease to Canadian National Railways.
Shaughnessy-D&H Book Page 459

Monday, March 19, 2007

Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #244

Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in 1900, builder #3448.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #204 "Whipporwill"


Built by Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1883, builder #428.
Later renumbered 365.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #17


Built by Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1883.
Ex 209 & "Utica"
Dismantled in 1912.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Delaware & Hudson Railroad Steam Locomotive #210

Built by Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1884, builder #482.

Shown on Presidents U. S. Grant Funeral Train on July 26, 1885.

Later renumbered 376.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad Steam Locomotive #37 "Commodore Vanderbilt"

Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in May, 1870. Builder #629.

Later Delaware and Hudson #132 and #416.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Fall Brook Coal Company Steam Locomotive #49 "Nickel Plate"

Nickel Plate No 49.

Built by Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1884, builder #1875 in 1884.

Later NYC & HR No. 1849.
Joseph A. Smith (1895-1978) was an avid collector of railroad photos, sharing many of them with fellow collectors in the Northeast. A former plumbing contractor, Smith presumably developed his interest in railroads through his father – a trolley motorman in Troy, NY.

His extensive collection focused on the lines that once served Troy: Delaware & Hudson, Rutland, Boston & Maine and New York Central. Many of his children – especially his sons Joseph Jr., James and Paul -- developed a similar interest and added to his collection with photos of their own. Maintaining the collection is now in the hands of his grandson, Kenneth Bradford. Coincidentally, Ken’s other grandfather worked as a manager at the Schenectady plant of the American Locomotive Company.

Smith was a life member of the Capital District Railroad Club of Schenectady. He was also a member of the Mohawk-Hudson Chapter Railway Historical Society and its parent organization, the National Railway Historical Society.