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Friday, May 04, 2007

Michigan Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #269


Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in Sept 1886, builder #2156.

Renumbered 8355.
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Monday, April 23, 2007

Michigan Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #273


Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in July, 1887, builder #2335.

Later renumbered 8360.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Michigan Central Railroad #277




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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Michigan Central Railroad Steam Locomotive #98


Originally "Pearl". Later #683.
Built by Manchester Locomotive Works in February, 1870, builder #224.

Scrapped in July, 1904.
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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.