Watercolors?

In the late 1970’s, the Delaware and Hudson repainted a lot of their units in one of several variants of a solid blue with yellow highlights paint scheme. Whether it... (more)

The Delaware & Hudson rostered eleven Alco RS11’s and twelve RS36’s. Here RS11 “class unit” 5001, adorned in the solid yellow nose “dip job” paint scheme, stands by the East Binghamton... (more)

The Guilford Transportation Industries gray and orange paint scheme was considered by many to be a downgrade from the Maine Central gold, Boston & Maine blue, and D&H lightning stripe schemes that... (more)

Heavy Stuff

With the sprawling General Electric complex in Schenectady as a major on-line shipper, the Delaware & Hudson had to maintain a fleet of special-use flat cars. That flee... (more)

Alcos dominate the shop tracks at the Delaware & Hudson's East Binghamton engine house on the day after Christmas, 1985.

There's no shortage of paint schemes in this photo at the Delaware & Hudson's East Binghamton shops. Beside the predominate Guilford grey/orange, there are units from the Boston & Maine, Maine Cen... (more)

Canadian Pacific train 259 is tied down at Shaw Rd. on a frigid early November morning.

Some of the Maine Central’s former Delaware & Hudson U23B’s got repainted into the Guilford scheme. Here former D&H 2307, freshly repainted, basks in some welcome but elusive November sun.

Soon after Guilford Transportation gained control of the Delaware & Hudson, Maine Central, Boston & Maine, and Springfield Terminal, a lot of the motive power of those roads was reassigned. The fi... (more)

When the Lehigh Valley was dissolved in 1976, its fleet of Alco C420’s was conveyed to the Delaware & Hudson, where it remained intact for over a decade. On the D&H, the fleet’s paint remained... (more)

Guilford, dealing with a worn-out, under-maintained fleet of diesels inherited from The D&H, the B&M, and the Maine Central, started looking to outside sources for used bargains to supplement the ... (more)

A southbound manifest enters East Binghamton yard with a mixed bag of models and paint schemes on the head end.

A brace of D&H power comprising four Alco’s and a GE threads its way out of the East Binghamton engine terminal.

Three D&H U33C’s, with a GP39-2 thrown in for good measure, pass the DL&W coaling tower as they bring a southbound freight into East Binghamton yard.

When Guilford Transportation Industries acquired the 6.5 mile Springfield Terminal, it acquired much more than a run-down ex-interurban with a GE 44-tonner. The real value in the acquisition was t... (more)