STEAM ENGINE PASSENGER SVC ON OLD ULSTER &DELAWARE LINE,WEST SORE LINE

[Grand Ave]

i posted a comnen6t ecently about the steam engines that operated from kingston,n.y.to onenonta ,n.y. (the orginal ULSTER AND DELAWARE) which was taken over b6 the (new york central) and then abandonded,.although there is a very small  portion being operated as an ecursion line otably between ARKVILLE,N6Y AND ROXBURY N6Y,ALSO BETWEEN PHOENICIA,NY AN MT TREMPER NY.

SIMALRY THERE WAS DAILY SERVICE FROM THE OLD ALBANY NY TO WEEHAWKEN NJ ON WHAT WAS ORINALLY THE "WEST SORE LINE" THIS AGAIN BECAME PARTR OF THE YC.CONAIL AND NOW CANADIAN NATIONAL. I RODE BOTH LINES BACKMIN THE ARLY 40'S AND 50'S SO ANY INFO AND THE TYPR OF STEAM ENGINE THAT WAS USED WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANKS, FRANK PASSER,LEES SMMIT,MO

[MJChittick]

Grand Ave

SIMALRY THERE WAS DAILY SERVICE FROM THE OLD ALBANY NY TO WEEHAWKEN NJ ON WHAT WAS ORINALLY THE "WEST SORE LINE" THIS AGAIN BECAME PARTR OF THE YC.CONAIL AND NOW CANADIAN NATIONAL.

No, it's now CSX.

[daveklepper]

The Ulster and Delaware branch used only 4-6-0 ten-wheelers, most with piston valves, but some stil with Stephenson valve motion and slide valves.   This was for both frieght and passenger service.  The West Shore used K-3 Pacifics and J-1 Hudsons, with very occasional use of the 4-8-2 Mowhawk, which handled many of the frieghts.    Also rode them.

The southern part of the West Shore was visited by the 4-8-2's of the New York Ontario and Western.   That railroad would borrow steel coaches from the NYC's West Shore for weekend and holiday summer service to suppliment their own "timber fleet."