CSX EB Q424 has just left Selkirk Yard for Springfield, MA as it passes WB Q115 with intermodal and mixed freight. The trains are meeting on the 5,255 ft Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge. The bridge is CSX's gateway to New England and was completed in 1924 as part of New York Central's Castleton Cut-off Project. The project was done to bypass the steep West Albany Hill and included the construction of the original Selkirk Yard. The bridge has 25 towers with a Pennsylvania through truss center span and crosses the Hudson River leading to the Berkshire Sub and the former B&A. On the north side of the CSX bridge is the 5,369 ft long NYS Thruway Berkshire Spur bridge opened in 1958.
