Showing posts with label Arkville New York. Show all posts
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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.

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