Price is $80,000 or thereabouts. Without roller bearing axles that caboose cannot go anywhere on rails. Brakes would be an issue too. No railroad would hang it on the hind end of a freight train and it could never be run in an Amtrak consist.
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Price is $80,000 or thereabouts. Without roller bearing axles that caboose cannot go anywhere on rails. Brakes would be an issue too. No railroad would hang it on the hind end of a freight train and it could never be run in an Amtrak consist.
That is the LS&MSRY depot. I have a very similar postcard showing that depot.
The DAV&P(later NYC Valley Branch) might have had a switch into the Alco plant. Erie definitely did. Plant was built by Horatio Brooks who was the engineer on the first Erie train to Dunkirk in 1851. NKP was not adjacent to Brooks Works.
5435 is the locomotive that is the subject of a weird set of communications that included messages to and from Mike Eagleson about the existence of that locomotive in the NYC roundhouse at Niles MI. I have copies of those messages, the jist of which is that 5435 was not scrapped but was hidden in th...
Two old switch keys: I have been asked to sell two old switch keys, one marked D&N, the other marked U&DRR. Not sure I can post this here. If so, good. If not, I understand and apologize. The owner is deceased. Hugh T. Guillaume posted this.
NYC&HRRR did operate Wagner buffet and sleeping cars but the cars were owned by Wagner, not by the railroad, and were not carried on the railroad roster of rolling stock. Wagner was sold to Pullman shortly after the death of Webster Wagner in a train wreck. More than likely, if any Wagner record...
Do not venture into the area around Central Terminal. But do include the History Discovery Center on Lee Street which is owned and operated by the Western New York Railway Historical Society. Check their website for open hours.
Matt Wronski, long-time GVT employee, best known for his years in Lockport, Depew and Batavia, died on August 4th, 2013, after a long struggle with many serious medical issues. Matt was a great guy, a good friend, he will be missed. Posted by Hugh T. Guillaume
Matt Wronski, long-time GVT employee, best known for his years in Lockport, Depew and Batavia, died on August 4th, 2013, after a long struggle with many serious medical issues. Matt was a great guy, a good friend, he will be missed. Posted by Hugh T. Guillaume
Matt Wronski, long-time GVT employee, best known for his years in Lockport, Depew and Batavia, died on August 4th, 2013, after a long struggle with many serious medical issues. Matt was a great guy, a good friend, he will be missed. Posted by Hugh T. Guillaume
There are no former RW&O or NYC Lewiston Branch tracks left heading compass north railroad west out of the Suspension Bridge Yard. There is no rail access to the power plant. RW&O and Lewiston Branch tracks were separate. Lehigh Valley eventually occupied former RW&O yard at Niagara Falls.
Does anyone on this board know anything about the disposition of this locomotive? It was built in September of 1941 by Alco-GE, c/n 69554.
Otto: Too bad that profile is not bigger and in more detail. If you could see the entire document you would find that several other branch lines are shown that way. One is the Cowanesque Valley which ran west off the Fall Brook near Lawrenceville. Like the U&D, it was a single-track line through...
Otto - I mailed you a copy of the Catskill Mountain Branch profile. You should have it on Monday. HTG
I have heard from two sources that the eastbound train hit the seventeenth head car of the westbound which means that a head-on collision was missed by only a few seconds so as bad as the wreck was it could have been much worse in human terms. Tapes will show whether or not there was a brake applica...