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Delaware & Hudson: a fallen flag remembered
A 22 car steam excursion to Montreal in 1973? I don’t remember hearing about it although my parents still lived in Montreal at the time. What locomotive did they use since all their own steam had been scrapped twenty years earlier?
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I rode that trip it was powered by a Reading T-1 i think it was 2102 but not sure. it was reworked to look D&H with smoke lifters, and a reset headlight centered on the smokebox door.It waas also renumbered into the D&H 4-8-4 number series. the trip was a glommy rainy weekend. Mother nature was crying for the trip.
It was #302, possibly a Niagara. My recollection is a little vague, but I think it was borrowed from another line and painted like a true D & H loco. I have a photo that I took as it rumbled thru Ushers NY (Saratoga County) on it’s return leg.
I believe the D&H was also the first railroad to try continuous welded rail in open track (outside of street railways), in the mid 1930’s, using thermite welds.