Thursday, March 30, 2017

Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #16 at Arkville, New York in 1890

ID # 3,716
Built by Brooks Locomotive Company in 1889. Builder #1538.

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.

Ulster & Delaware Railroad Steam Locomotive #14 at Hobart, New York

ID # 3,715
Built by Dickson Manufacturing Company in May, 1885. Builder #519.

Delaware & Northern Railroad Steam Locomotive #3 at Arkville, New York

ID # 2,302
Location is Ulster & Delaware yard, Arkville, NY. Engine has either been turned on U&D turntable, or run in backward from Margaretville. Engine is facing West on U&D and South on D&N.

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
CONNECTICUT ELECTRIC RAILWAY
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
CONNECTICUT ELECTRIC RAILWAY
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.

Schenectady Locomotive Works Specification Card, Fall Brook Coal Company

ID # 9,006
Built in February, 1887.

Later became New York Central & Hudson River Railroad #1088.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Arcade & Attica Railroad Steam Locomotive #18

ID # 5,446
Built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in 1920. Builder # 62624.

Ex Boyne City Railroad and Berrk Iron Company.

Went to Arcade & Attica Railroad in 1962.

Saratoga Terminal in the Halcyon Days!

ID # 4
Saratoga Terminal in the Halcyon Days! Three Low 600 series of Schenectady RY., Two Hudson Valley opens, and H-V No. 60.

The Black Diamond, Inspection Engine and Pay-Car


ID $ 1,041

23

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