Sunday, February 25, 2007

South Buffalo Railway Locomotive #76


SOUTH BUFFALO 76
The first Bethlehem Steel road to give a locomotive a Bicentannial paint scheme is the South Buffalo Ry. A 1000 HP Alco S2 switcher was picked and is shown in South Bauffalo, N.Y. on August 12, 1975.

Photo by Ray Lackemeyer
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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.