The blog of the Central New York Modelers railroad club based in Syracuse, New York. Edited and maintained by Richard Palmer. When printed material appears too small, tap to enlarge to make readable.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Old time New York Central train at Little Falls
Shown at Little Falls is New York Central engine #491 was built at Schenectady Locomotive Works, July, 1854 construction number #88 and became NYC #55. Rebuilt in 1868 and Re# 491 in 1877 and sold July, 1890. Drivers 66", 15” x 22” cylinders, rebuilt with 16” x 22”, was a woodburner as built, probably to coal in 1868. Notice the air pump, probably put on some time in the 70's. That combine car looks to be from the 50's or 60's, judging by the curve of the roof and short clerestory. Photo taken in the 1880s.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Marion River Carry Railroad, Aug. 25, 1927
The Marion River Carry was originally a portage around the rapids in the Marion River to Utowana Lake in the central Adirondack region of New York State. The carry was shortened by a dam, that raised the level of the river and then by the Marion River Carry Railroad. At 1,320 yards or 7-8ths of a mile it was the shortest standard-gauge railroad line in the United States.There is a detailed, animated, three-dimensional model of the carry railroad at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake.
The Marion River played an important part in the development of the central Adirondacks. Both Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake were acquired by Thomas Clark Durant, developer of the Union Pacific Railroad, as part of the building of the Adirondack Railway to North Creek in the 1870s.
Durant, his son, William West Durant, and other family members built hotels and great camps on both lakes. W.W. Durant dammed the river at the Utowana end in 1879, and operated a sawmill there; this also allowed steamboats to travel most of its length. This was followed in 1900 by the Marion Carry Railroad, which operated until 1929. Efforts to save one of the steam locomotives from the railroad in 1947 led to the creation of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, where one engine may still be seen. Due to its location, the little railroad connected with steamboats at both ends.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Lehigh Valley Railroad Photos
Easton, Pa.
On turntable at Easton, Pa.
Old time 2-8-0
Westbound Black Diamond, Sayre, Pa.
Last westbound Black Diamond, Sayre, Pa., May 11, 1958.
Eastbound Black Diamond, Manchester, N.Y., 1954.
Lehighton, Pa., 1958.
Postcard view of Geneva station, ca. 1908
First train into Van Etten.
East Ithaca
Canastota
Rippleton, south of Cazenovia, where Lehigh Valley and New York Central
Chenango branch crossed (John Taibi collection)
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South Bay (John Taibi collection)
Lehigh Valley #133 at Cortland |
"Maple Leaf" at Newark, N.J., 1960 |
No. 1133 at Auburn, 1930s. |
No. 214 at Sayre, 1972 |
RDC#40 at Hazleton, Pa., 1950s. |
Erie Railroad Stations, Circa 1910
Canoe Camp, Pa.
Trowbridge, Pa.
Trowbridge, Pa.
Jackson Summit, Pa.
Tioga Junction, Pa.
Tioga, Pa.
Lambs Creek, Pa.
Binghamton
Hornell
Hornell
Salamanca (destroyed by arsonists, 2014)
Henry Street, Elmira
Seeley Creek, Pa.
Millerton, Pa.
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