2012 Annual Meeting - Elkhart

The NYCSHS is proud to announce the 2012 Annual Meeting will take place in the Elkhart area, hosted in nearby Middlebury, Indiana! More details will be posted on the official convention page shortly. We look forward to seeing you!

Surviving NYC Steam Locomotives

The following enumeration of surviving New York Central Steam locomotives was printed in the pages of the Central New York Chapter, NRHS Green Block by Richard Palmer. The list is a bit longer than we had previously imagined, but sorry, still no Hudsons!

New York Central System

#6894	B-10w 0-6-0	Alco Pittsburgh 1912	Connorsville, IN, Whitewater Valley Railroad
#6721	B-11k 0-6-0	Alco Schenectady 1913	Utica, NY
#999	C-14a 4-4-0	West Albany 1893	Chicago, IL, Museum of Science & Industry
#2976	G-6k 2-8-0	Alco Brooks 1910	Fairview, OK
#5780	G-43a 2-8-0	Alco Brooks 1901	Chamberlain Lake, ME
#8085	I-80a 4-4-2	Alco Schenectady 1902	Dearborn, MI
#2933	L-2D 4-8-2	Alco Schenectady 1929	St Louis, MO, National Museum of Transportation
#3001	L-3A 4-8-2	Alco Schenectady 1940	Elkhart, IN

New York Central Subsidiary Roads

B&A	#39	4-4-0	Boston & Albany 1876	St Louis, MO, National Museum of Transportation
IHB	#15	4-6-0	Alco Schenectady 1897	Chamberlain Lake, ME
P&LE	#9153	F-102 4-6-0	Alco Schenectady 1896	Delson, QUE, Canadian Railway Museum
LE&W	#5541	H-6a 2-8-2	Baldwin Locomotive Works 1918	Beech Grove, IN, Indiana Transportation Museum
DSI	#5	0-4-0T	Vulcan 1923	Henrietta, NY (no public access)

   

New York Central Predecessor Roads

Dewitt Clinton	(replica)	0-4-0	West Point 1831	Dearborn MI
Pioneer	Utica & Schenectady #7	4-2-0	Baldwin 1837	Chicago IL

NYC Alco RS-3 8255 at Midland Railway, Kansas

 

The Midland Railway operates excursion trains on a line originally constructed in 1867. Train rides feature an over-20-mile round trip from Baldwin City via "Norwood, Kansas" to Ottawa Junction, Kansas, traveling through scenic Eastern Kansas farmland and woods via vintage railway equipment. The Midland Railway is a completely volunteer-staffed, non-profit, common carrier railroad operated to preserve and display transportation history as an educational demonstration railroad. Of interest to New York Central fans is Alco RS-3 8255, which operates regularly on the line. Privately owed by Century Rail, this 1951 graduate of Schenectady never looked so good! Coincidentally, John Dziobko photographed the 8255 in service on the Harlem Division in 1966.