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Heres the path of the Troy & Schenectady Railroad. What if it Still Existed? |
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The Troy and Schenectady Railroad: What If It Still Existed Today? |
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A lot of my readers create model railroads. Instead, I fantasize
about them on the computer.
Let's assume for this project that the T&S (and several other nearby rail lines) were not abandoned. In our scenario, a big railroad headquartered in northern Florida just purchased the former New York Central, Penn Central, Conrail lines running through the capital district of New York. They want to get rid of everything that is not money making train load freight. Their initial transfer will be the entire T&S with trackage rights to Sandbank Yard. The next step will be transfer of the trackage from West Albany to Hoffmans including the Carman Connector. Other transfers would follow: Renssaeler to Troy, Albany trackage and Rensselaer to West Albany. Now, you have to realize, just because we abrogated the destruction of the Schenectady to Green Island railroad (man-made), we did not abrogate the Green Island bridge destruction (natural disaster). So to begin, we own from just West of the Schenectady station to the Green Island freight house (adjacent to the new Green Island Bridge). We have a situation where we can only cross Interstate 87, the Northway, between the hours of 2 am to 5 am. We have several industries located all along the line. We are assuming there has been a lot of new development and several ficticious industries have been added (well, don't all you modelers do it too!) Operations initially are planned as follows: Local switching would be done at each end with separate crews during daylight hours. At night, a train would run from Schenectady to Green Island and return. map Our company is a small conglomerate, operating several businesses unrelated to railroads. We are strong in information technology. We plan to dispatch from our corporate headquarters in Champlain, New York like Delaware Otsego System dispatches from Cooperstown. Champlain, like Cooperstown, no longer has any active railroads (Rutland used to go from Rouses Point to Ogdensburg). We will need to shop for at least three used locomotives and any other equipment we might want. A list of our customers and their location is shown below Once comfortable with this railroad, we intend to expand. End corporate history as of December 10, 2005 |
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December 19,2005 At last, my first helpful comment for my fantasy railroad! Passenger Service! Why didn't I think of that? Suggestion was for service from Latham area to station in downtown Schenectady. I'd also like to have service from the Crescent area to Troy and Albany. Now remember, I can't cross the Northway during daylight hours. This means I'll need two separate trains. The Schenectady side is fairly simple. I can set up some small but convenient "park and ride" stations. On the other side, I'll definitely need a couple of stops in Cohoes. Now as far as Troy, since I already "wrote out" the Green Island Bridge, I'll have to set up a shuttle bus from Green Island to Troy. Too bad I don't have the bridge, I could have gone all the way to the Renssaeler Amtrak Station. All is not lost, I could negotiate to run my train down the D&H into Albany. Now as far as equipment, my first choice is to fix up some Budd RDC's. I'll need two in service at a time and at least one spare. |
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Miles from Schenectady |
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| Schenectady | 0.0 |
Trackage begins at switch just West of station. Railroad has trackage rights to Sandbank Yard Across Mohawk River bridge in Scotia |
| New Siding to garbage transfer facility | 2.19 |
Customer on this siding ships covered hoppers of compacted garbage. |
| Siding to Condec plant | 3.62 |
Customers on this siding are Nova Bus (end of siding) and new
Acme Plastics plant (sbout half way up the siding.
Nova receives parts by rail and ships finished busses on flat cars. Acme is a plastics extrusion manufacturer who receives covered gondola cars of plastics pellets and ships containers of finished goods. |
| Aqueduct | 3.82 |
Small siding used by auto salvage yard to ship scrap steel.
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| Niskayuna | 9.82 |
Siding used by organic food products manufacturer to ship refrigerated cars.
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| Mohawk View | 12.11 |
Siding for Widget Manufacturing Company. Ships containers of finished products.
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| Dunsbach Ferry | 13.94 | Fantasy Railcar Co has a small yard where rail passenger cars are repaired and rebuilt. |
| Interstate 87 crossing | 15.19 |
Crossing at grade Must set fusees in addition to flagging crossing |
| Crescent | 15.49 | Ford Tractor Warehouse |
| Cohoes | 17.78 | Ace Manufacturing has siding to their new plant and ships finished gadgets on oversize flatcars. They receive just in time (JIT) parts on a daily basis in box cars. |
| Green Island | 20.78 |
New trailer on flat car loading/unloading facility near exit of Interstate Highway 787. End of line (bridge to Troy out) |
| Troy | 20.78 |
Troy Union Railroad
Line serviced from Renssaeler |
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Troy and Schenectady Branch\Railroad
Welcome to the T&S Branch. A group devoted to the discussion and history of the Troy and Schenectady Branch\Railroad between Schenectady and Troy New York. Although abandoned now, this line was part of the original New York Central Railroad. |
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