These tracks were used by both the Delaware & Hudson and the New York Central (for its Troy-Schenectady branch). East of the bridge the tracks split; a Delaware and Hudson branch went northward, through Green Island, and rejoined the D&H main north of Waterford. The other branch continued east over the Hudson River into Troy (at the approximate location of the current Green Island Bridge), and into the Troy Union Railroad (a joint operation of the NYC, D&H, and Boston & Maine).
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