New York Central RS32 #2023 at Collinwood, OH. George Elwood photo used with permission. 2022 was pretty much a dud for me on the model railroad front. I was doing well gearing up for the New England RPM meet through March, but from that point forward I got very little done. I did...
they were key to its operations and often serving as a crucial part of the signaling system. They had been there since the steam era. After all, the railroad was more than just locomotives rolling along at speed.
When steam locomotives were banned below 42nd Street in 1858, the horses that pulled the trains from there to the depot at 27th Street were stabled here. Eventually the railroad built Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street to avoid the bother. W...
These slow-moving locomotives, with their small wheels, offered greater leverage on hills and were easier on the track than conventional engines with their pounding side rods and counterbalances. The New York Central was not known to conduct logging operations, but its 1940 roster listed five ...
Any EMDs newer than the SD40-2F cowls on CP's roster? I know that their US subsidiary SOO bought SD60/60Ms in the late 80s/early 90s. It seems that CP is mostly a GE railroad these days. Reply MJChittick Member sinceJuly 2006 From: Central New York 335 posts Posted by MJ...
The New York Central & Hudson River eventually acquired control of the NYWS&B in 1885, renaming it as the West Shore Railroad. The Central continued allowing the O&W access to Weehawken, in which it paid a fixed sum per mile. The so-called "Middletown Branch" of the former NYWS&B was...
The railroad also offers the option of bulk transfer facilities. It is now larger, hauls more tonnage, and is more profitable than it ever was at any point in its more than 130 year history. The NYS&W's current roster is an eclectic assortment of locomotives ranging from GEs and EMDs...