The New York Central was not known to conduct logging operations, but its 1940 roster listed five Shay type locomotives, Nos. 7185-7189 (originally numbered 1896-1900). They were built in 1923 by Lima Locomotive Works for use on the West Side freight line in New York City, chiefly on st...
1 (block): This 19-story building was designed in 1926 by York & Sawyer, who did the Bowery Savings Bank on 42nd Street and Broadway's Greenwich Savings Bank. The publisher Henry Holt used to have its offices here. When steam locomotives were banned below 42nd Street in 1858, the hors...
On January 8, 1989, a rare Conrail C30-7 (one of only ten on the roster) leads a westward empty coal train through Rochester, New York. I exposed a sequence of photos using my Leica M2 with a 200mm Telyt fitted to a Visoflex. In retrospect that was a bizarre and awkward camera-le...
The West Shore had completed a connection from its main line at Cornwall to the O&W at Middletown in 1883, permitting the latter to achieve a more direct routing to the New York City region. The New York Central & Hudson River eventually acquired control of the NYWS&B in 1885, renaming...
The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW), better known as the Susie-Q, is a 400-mile+ regional operation based in Cooperstown, New York. The railroad has its roots dating all of the way back to 1881 when it was created through the merger of several other smaller Northeastern...