Saw this on the F units list:

Former NYC E8's 4068 & 4080 now on the Tennesse Central should be
moving to Medina NY within the next 2-3 mos for tourist train service. They
are ptd. in NYC's lightning stripe scheme & would run between Lockport
& Brockport NY on the old NYC line (now the Falls Rd - GVT) that ran
between Niagara Falls & Rochester. Medina is about 40 mi. ne of Buffalo &
houses a large collection of railroadiana + a huge HO layout in the
refurbished former NYC freight station.


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Cool news. At least they'll be home again.

My dream would be to see them run up the Adirondack Scenic. The old ADK Division was a haunt for the E's for a few years.

Really? I never saw images of E units north of Utica, just RS units and more RS units. Especially considering those nasty tight curves.

Joshua

A friend of mine, an old NYC vet who started on the ADK Div., has a ton of pics......One nice pic that stands out in my mind is a nice perfect-color Kodachrome print of an E at Big Moose.

Jeeps and FA's appeared also up until the 50's. The FA's used to pull the through freights to Montreal. Toward the end, though, only the RS-3's usually made the trip up to Placid (by then, the end of the line), with the occasional RDC on the NYC's "Beeliner" service around '60 or '61 or so.

I seem to recall a photo (in Trains Mag?) of an E-unit-powered fan trip on the ADK Division in the mid-60s. It may have been a Mohawk & Hudson NRHS trip.

There were two runs after Passenger Service ceased on the ADK Div. The first one was on Sept 25th, 1965, and was billed as an "All Day Adirondack Color Trip" which ran from Syracuse (or Utica, depending on where you boarded) up to Tupper Lake and back. There is a video for sale (the company name eludes me) with footage from this trip, including a stop near Beaver River (IIRC) for the riders to get off and collect driftwood from the river. At Tupper Lake, former ICRR 790, then owned by David De Camp, was on display. 790 was planned to be used on the proposed "Central Adirondack Mountain Railroad" (CAM), which was an organization that was being proposed by Luke Wood to buy up the branch from the NY Central , but when the CAM deal fell through, the locomotive ended up in the collection of F. Nelson Blount.

A copy of the poster for this trip can be seen in Henry Harter's "Fairy Tale Railroad" book.

790 was run "unofficially" one night on a short stretch of track by one of the engineers involved. The NY Central, which was still very much alive on the ADK with freight service, was pretty peeved, from what I have been told, at the unauthorized movement.

The second trip, which no one seems to remember, was in late 1966, and I've been told it was "The Rotary Train", although WHAT Rotary I am simply not sure. The pictures I have seen of this were dated Sept. 1966, and showed 2 E's at Tupper Lake, and by then the station platforms were beginning to show their non-usage by the weeds popping up here and there.

Here's a link to a news story from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise that tells of the CAM RR:

http://news.nnyln.org/adirondack-enterprise/1965/adirondack-enterprise-1965-april%20-%200051.pdf#xml=http://news.nnyln.org/adirondack-enterprise/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&DocId=30525&Index=D%3a%5cdtSearch%20Developer%5cUserData%5cadirondack%2denterprise&HitCount=4&hits=c03+c04+c63+c64+&.pdf