ID 1,211 |
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, he presumably developed his interest in railroads through his father James H. Smith, 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.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #16 at Arkville, New York in 1890
ID # 3,716 |
Special Funeral Train w/#16 in Arkville for water while in route to Kingston & Thomas Cornell's funeral there. Note the black cape accorations hanging from the letterboards of the baggage car & coach.
Thomas B Cornell died in Kingston on March 30-1890 in his 77th year.
Delaware & Northern Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 at Arkville, New York
ID # 2,302 |
According to Gerald Best in "The Ulster & Delaware", (p 204) D&N No. 3 was built by Baldwin, Construction No. 20737, July 1902, for Southern Indiana (No. 17). Rebuilt by Baldwin in 1911, scrapped by D&N (this would have been at Margaretville no year given). 64 inch drivers, 18 x 24 inch cylinders, Weight 113000 lbs.
ID # 2,303 |
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
1927 "Bulldog" Mack Fire Engine
ID # 2,186 |
TROLLEY MUSEUM
Route 140, Warehouse Point, Connecticut
1920 American-LaFrance fire engine
Built for Hartsdale, New York, and retired In 1958. Used for parades by Museum's Fire Department. The public is invited to ride the trolleys every Sat. and Sun. and Holiday, April to December.
1927 "Bulldog" Mack Fire Engine
ID # 2,017 |
TROLLEY MUSEUM
Route 140, Warehouse Point, Connecticut
1927 "Bulldog" Mack lire engine
Built for Willimantic, Connecticut and used by museum's fire department for parades and is on view to the public, who are invited to ride the Trolleys every Sat. and Sun. April to December.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Arcade & Attica Railroad Steam Locomotive #18
Monday, March 27, 2017
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Saratoga Terminal in the Halcyon Days!
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
The Black Diamond, Inspection Engine and Pay-Car
ID $ 1,041 |
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THE BLACK DIAMOND, INSPECTION ENGINE AND PAY-CAR
Baldwin-built in 1889 for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., then part of the Reading system, this 26,000-pound, 2-2-2-type engine was a self-propelled car used by company officials for inspection trips. She also traveled the line once a month, stopping often to pay the employees. The company had five such engines. each named Black Diamond, in tribute to coal. The Reading's life depended largely on the coal mines of Pennsylvania. This engine is now in the National Museum of Transport at St. Louis, Missouri. Pay-trains were common sights on North Amer-ica s big railroads for at least eighty years, beginning in the 1850's. Unlike the Black Diamond, each pay-train usually consisted of an engine pulling a car or two. Known as the "money wagon" or "band wagon" and sometimes carrying up to a quarter-million dollars in gold and silver at a time, pay-cars operated only in daylight, for security reasons, and were well equipped to fight off bandits.
MISS ROSEMARIE BOYLE