Showing posts with label Rutland Railroad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rutland Railroad. Show all posts

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Adirondack & St. Lawrence Railway Steam Locomotive #12


Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1891, builder #3512.

Later New York Central Lines #863.

Later Rutland Railroad #83.

Sold 10/1920 to Fort Smith & Western Railroad and became their #4.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Chatham & Lebanon Valley Railroad Steam Locomotive #5


Built by the Brooks Locomotive Company in 1885, builder #910.

Later Rutland Railroad #78.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #869


Built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1899, builder #5110.

Scrapped in January, 1932.

Later Rutland #89 and New York Central Lines #869.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Rutland Railroad Steam Locomotive #244

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