Thursday, May 31, 2007

United Traction Company #243


243 "Pop Nolan" motorman.

Note different seat backs.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Troy City Railway Open Trolley #300


#300 (1 of 6 - 298 to 303) built by J. M. Jones Son's Company.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Watervliet Turnpike and Railway #44


From the back:

First Albany - Troy Car

Watervliet Turnpike & RR Co.

Car 44

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Albany & Hudson Railroad #24 at Dispatchers Office, Rensselaer, New York


Albany-Hudson Fast Line #24 Southbound at Displatch Office Rensselaer, New York.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad Trolleys #177


Built by the Portland Traction Company, builder #4007 (?).

Ex. Eastern New York Utilities.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Greenwich & Johnsonville Railway Gas Car #10 "The Shunk"



Email from Jason Cook

It is a Brill Model 55. Last time I checked their website, I believe it said it was due out this summer. the Unadilla Valley, Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville, and I believe one other 'local' road had them too but it's eluding me at the moment. On the Class 1 side of the house, I seem to recall that the NYC had them and the D&H is listed as having one but there is no record of it appearing on the D&H roster so it is speculated that it was actually the car pictured here, the G&J #10, as the G&J was a subsidiary of the D&H.


Email from Gino

Greenwich and Johnsonville are in Washington and Rennselaer Counties of NY.

The G&J was a short line that ran between the two villiages and also connected with the B&M at Thompson (Also a stop for the Hudson Valley) and the D&H at Greenwich Junction (Salem).

The D&H bought the line, but kept the corporate title. The original line between Greenwich and Johnsonville was abandoned in 1933, but the line between Greenwich Junction and Greenwich and Thompson remained until 1983 when it joined the D&H's former Washington Branch in becoming the present day Battenkill Railroad.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Frankiln Square - Troy, New York in 1904


Hudson Valley open car 124.

Schenectady Railway closed car 500 and 504.

4 United Traction cars in the background.

The State made a rule that "any car going over 25 miles had to have a toilet on it - This did away with most of the open cars.

Franklin Square, Troy N.Y. in 1904.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Schenectady Railway #562


This photo is from one of the SRC fantrips. It is from 1941 and in the D&H's Ballston Spa Yard.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Schenectady Railway Trolley #560 local at Stop 31



#560 Schtdy Ry local at Stop 31 Ford's Beach, Albany-Schtdy Rd. in distance is U.T.C. car 613 on W. City Line route #2 about to use Xover & return to Albany about 1926.

560 Wason Built for Albany Southern formerly numbered #36.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007