Soldiering On: Near the conclusion of a round trip between Cargill in Salem, NY and Eagle Bridge, NY, Batten Kill Alco RS-3 #4116 leads its train across State Route 22 at Greenwich Junction. Greenwich Junction is where the Delaware and Hudson's subsidiary Greenwich and Johnsonville connected to and interchanged with the D&H's Washington Branch. After the D&H condemned a bridge in Granville, NY in the late 1970s, it abandoned the entire Washington Branch and then sold the remaining portion between Salem and Eagle Bridge--along with the former G&J--to Ron Crowd's Batten Kill Railroad in 1980. Alco RS-3 #4116--originally a D&H locomotive--went on to become G&J #4116 before it entered service on the Batten Kill. Though it's missing the "G&J" shields it once wore at the end of each hood and its bright red-orange paint has faded significantly, it is still lettered for the Greenwich and Johnsonville today.
New York state has the largest number of ALCO diesel locomotives working in everyday service. Here are some of them. Soon I hope to chronicle all of them.
