A five unit pure EMD set of three SD40-2s and two GP38-2s cruises through the township of Mechanicville at the start of the Colonie Sub as the skies finally clear out by early afternoon.

It's Thanksgiving Weekend and the D&H is business as usual as a RS-36 gets serviced with sand.

Just before shadows eclispe the tracks, a short #414 with five colorful units enters the new shoo fly track at CPF467 off the Colonie Sub past the former "XO" Tower.

After 'looping' the power around at CPF 466, this EDRJ freight approaches Mechanicville led by one of the colorful ex-Trona SD45-2s, one of three obtained in July by Pan Am. The "MO-1" crew wil... (more)

CP 6034 leads a 4-unit set of SD40-2s east toward Kenwood Yard in Albany.

CP 5920 leads a 4-unit set of SD40-2s west toward Saratoga Springs on a beautiful summer afternoon.

The MO-1 crew has brought this set of light power from East Deerfield and is heading for Rotterdam Junction where they will put together an RJED.

ST Train MOAY rumbles through what was once Mechanicville Yard as it heads east, bound ultimately for Ayer, MA. Today's train has 4 of the 10 ex-KCS/TFM SD40-2s recently purchased by Pan Am in to... (more)

D&H Train 721--a high and wide extra from GE in Schenectady, NY--passes old XO Tower in Mechanicville, NY as it comes onto the Colonie Subdivision from the Freight Subdivision to head south for th... (more)

D&H U33C #757 and C628 #609 await their next work in Mechanicsville, May 1977.

The double track leaving Mechanicville was one of many great photo spots to catch the Adirondack heading north to Canada. The D&H rebuilt the PAs to power their passenger service into the 80s. Whe... (more)

Perhaps two of the sharpest CP Rail painted SD40-2s in the Northeast charge northward through Mechanicville on a gorgeous July afternoon in Saratoga County.

What an ABA Lashup! PC F7A 1773 is ex-NYC 1773, while PC GP9B 3806 is a real B unit and ex-PRR 7232, and PC FA-2 1302 is ex-NYC 1102

The northbound turn of D&H Train 414 heads through Mechanicville, NY at 5:40 PM.