Touring the New England, Berkshire & Western

An ALCO RS-3, one of the many on the line, picks a car up at the guarded mine shed. The switching move passes Sullivan's coal company. At North Creek Station, train 182, the local, is leaving for shadow gate. When 182 reaches the Creek on the edge of town. The sun is up This is the or plant where iron and titanium or a process. This plant was developed in the Adirondack mountains. During world war II. At South junction, the branch line, Jordan Z. Any BMW remain bound for shadow This is Hastings Bay at the approach to the tank farm on the outskirts of shadow gate. The local terminates here, but the milk car will be cut off and add it to train 88. At the South end of shadow gate train number one arrives late with the northbound male from New York city. The Canadian Pacific RPO will be dropped. Finally, train number one leaves Shadow. Gay is a great place to watch trains this ALCO lash up as heading 86, the aura train Steam still runs here. Train number two, pulls into the station as eighty-six is switched for its trips out. With a switching done, 86 heads out. Some of the hoppers are empty and some are loaded with dense iron or At South Georgia, 86 crushes and Solomon river. At port Henry the old train will do some switching at the Republic steel plant And the foreground is the Lake Richelieu and Mariah railroad trestle that serves the steel plant. 86 stops at port Henry. So empties C an be set out and a cut of loaded hoppers added Around noon 86 heads out with the Republic plant on the right The three Argos inner Virginia and past the Kennedy furniture factory and the dirty man's Creamery. This is Wilkesboro Bay, but real fans call it red rocks. The track skirts to cliff high above Lake Richelieu Here's the resort at Lake George. 86 we'll stop here and wait for the northbound. Richelieu short express. When they express arrives, it stops before heading North to Montreal. The sand beach here cost a million dollars to install. After the vacationers D train express takes off Soon, the O train leaves but we'll hang around and catch some more action. The next train is wafer eight AB 12, and back is the restored Fort William Henry The ALCO powered freight is leaving after picking up a boxcar at the team track and setting out a reefer at the freight house. AB 12 crosses the Causeway over Lake Richelieu Only by racing ahead. Could we catch the wave right before it reaches South hero Island? The conductor has instructions to pick up a milk car and take it to grand isle. While the engineer picked up the milk car we were able to find a good spot on board. This small Causeway over like Richelieu gets the train under grand isle After 8012 drops off to cars, train 88 arrives from shadow gate Train 88. The milk train is powered by a four eight four number 394. The Winooski river is lined with summer vacation cabinets. Number 88 reaches the yard limits at North Bennington. We dash ahead and check out the yard action. Switcher one O six pulls the cars from local number three. This coach will return to New York on number four. Train 87 the empty milk is switched. The Richelieu shore express pulls into North Bennington to make a connection with train ADA. As the express leaves the milk train number 88 waits its turn. Eventually 88 leaves with no passengers. The Boston bound milk and passenger cars have been set out. 86 that we last saw at George is leaving the yard where it's been for five hours. We'll chase it a while. The orange rain rolls through Proctor the home of Vermont marble company. The Argos head over the bridge at Brockway mills. 86 passes the pole yard the stock yard and route 103 at jester At practice real golf. 86 has taken the siding to wait for train number five northbound. This is the return movement of number two that we saw at shadow gate. At summit 86 is stopped again. This time the retainers get turned up for the drop down gray The local number four arrives from North Bennington. The outgo takes number four from summit over the Williams river. Next 86 leaves summit. It passes the river and the gas. It's tough mill The Bartonsville covered bridge truly says new England. The sun is going down when 86 arrives at Johnsonville tower. At 7:30, 86 hitter Saratoga on the wrong main because the commuter train is parked at the station. Passing the Saratoga freight house. The shadows are LinkedIn. We'll stay the night in Saratoga. First thing, the next day we decide to follow the commuter number 40 It's still early when we get to the state line tunnel At green Island station. Number 40 negotiates, the lift bridge over the Hudson river. A station stop is called for at Troy After the stop, the commuter rolls down the middle of sixth Avenue. South Troy with the Republic Steelworks offers the entrance to the staging yard.