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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by bill mathewson If you're looking for one of the more obscure NYC branch lines, consider the Adirondack Division of the N Y Central Railroad [/quote] I'll be riding my mountain bike north of Rainbow Lake along some of the abandoned Adirondack Division right-of-way tomorrow. Much of the track is currently controlled by the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, though trains currently run only at each end, Utica to just past Thendara & Lake Placid to Saranac Lake. Someday I hope, trains will run the full length of existing track. Most of the roadbed north of Saranac up to Malone is now a utility right-of-way. I'm including hints of the branch in my new N scale layout along with the D&H whose tracks ran parallel to the NYC for a while in some pretty remote wilderness. They ran pretty much single track mainline though you might provide a reeeally long passing siding. Most NYC locos except the largest ran through the Adirondacks. Your tall wood trestle would be prototypical up here though might have been replaced by fill by the time period you mention. To save time & money on making 6 million acres of scale trees, I'm going to model an earlier era, during the fire years when much of the forest burned as a result of the locomotives. (Only kidding.) Both books Bill mentions have been really helpful to me, along with "Rails in the Northwoods" about old shortlines up here in the Adirondacks, most of which connected with the NYC. Another branch to think about is the old Ulster & Delaware that became NYC's Catskill Mountain Branch in 1932 with shops in Kingston, NY. Stock up on old Ten Wheelers if you do. Wayne
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