Nostalgia & History > Vintage Albany, NY area railroad photos

From the Albany Times Union.

Many photos of D & H steam locomotives, some NYC steam locomotives and passenger trains and a few station photos.

Vintage Albany, NY area photos

The former ALCO site is being developed into a hotel and casino?

This is indeed a remarkable series of photographs - with many of them being reminiscent of Jack Delano's works - that is fertile ground for anyone with an affinity towards moody B&W, non-3/4 shots (yeah there are roster shots also).

A photo that intrigued me was the 1937 one depicting D&H 2-8-0 #1089 supplying power for an electric rail welder. I had no idea that RR's were field welding rails at that early date.

Have a couple of brewskies on me, Dave!

EO

Dave, thanks for posting that, my old stompin' grounds featured.  That first pic of the Alco folks--they are posed alongside the fearsome New York Central's first 4-8-4, the 800, which featured no less than three different steam systems, the one with the highest pressure, 800 psi, which struck fear into the crew members.  It wasn't very successful.



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That's a great selection, thanks for sharing it.

Love the European look, and spit polish on the D&H steam power. That was a  characteristic of the Loree era.

Thanks for your comments.

Albany was my old stomping grounds, too, during the mid- to late-1980s.  Of course, nearly all of what is shown in the photos is gone now, except for Albany Union Station which was renovated to be reused as a bank.  The bank moved out and the station building houses other functions.

Not shown in the photos is the magnificent for D & H headquarters building which now is the administrative offices for the State University of New York.

Here's a link to drawings and photographs of the D & H Building.

D & H Building
 

I grew up there and left in 1974 for good.....but my dad worked for the Central and I hung out around trains for most of my youth....especially as a kid in Troy.

Bob

RuleG Wrote:
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> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Albany was my old stomping grounds, too, during
> the mid- to late-1980s.  Of course, nearly all of
> what is shown in the photos is gone now, except
> for Albany Union Station which was renovated to be
> reused as a bank.  The bank moved out and the
> station building houses other functions.
>
> Not shown in the photos is the magnificent for D &
> H headquarters building which now is the
> administrative offices for the State University of
> New York.
>
> Here's a link to drawings and photographs of the D
> & H Building.
>
> D & H Building
>