Delaware And Hudson In Color Volume 3 D&H In The Diesel Years Plant Morning Sun
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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Delaware and Hudson In Color Volume 3 D&H in the diesel years Plant Morning Sun Delaware and Hudson In Color Volume 3 D&H in the diesel years by Jeremy F Plant & Jeffrey G Plant featuring the photography Jim ShaughnessyHard Cover Morning Sun Book128 pagesCopyright 2004TABLE OF CONTENTSMontreal 8Windsor Station 10Westmount 11Montreal West 12La Salle 13Adirondack Junction 14Dels...on 16Rouses Point 18Along Lake Champlain 20Port Henry 22At the Water's Edge 24Ticonderoga 26South Bay 27Whitehall 30The Rutland Branch 34The Washington Branch 36Greenwich & Johnsonville 40Along the Batten Kill 42Fort Edward 44Adirondack Branch 44Saratoga 46Ballston Lake 48Crescent 49Shared Trackage 52Coons Crossing 54Mechanicville 55Albany Line 62Waterford 63Cohoes 65Troy Union Railroad 66Watervliet 68On the Outside 70Solid Blue 71North Side of Albany 72Albany Union Station 74Albany 76Albany-Rensselaer Station 77Albany Main 78Glenville 81Mohawk Yard82Mohawk River Bridge 85Schenectady 86South of Schenectady 91Delanson 94Central Bridge 96Howe Cave Hill 97Cobleskill 98Richmondville Hill 102Richmondville Summit 106Worcester 108Schenevus 110Emmons 111Oneonta 112Along the Susquehanna 114Belden Hill 116Binghamton 119Pennsylvania Division 120Lanesboro 121Ararat Grade 124Hard Coal Country 125Wilkes-Barre 127Farewell 128INTRODUCTION:Delaware & Hudson in Color Volume 2 was published by Morning Sun Books in 1994. It was the first railroad book this author had done, and in retrospect it was ambitious in trying to cover a railroad the size and complexity of the D&H in a single volume. Much that we wanted to do had to be curtailed to cover the entire railroad from Montreal to Wilkes-Barre and the trackage rights granted to the road in the formation of Conrail. We were excited to see the book, but we knew that we wanted to take another opportunity to look at our favorite railroad in a different way. In Volume 3, we stick to the 744-mile system that theD&H operated before 1976, with only a few diversions to add to the story of the railroad between the 1950's and the beginning of the Guilford era in 1984. Most of the locomotives shown are in the traditional D&H schemes, the early black and yellow and the many variations of the classic blue/gray/yellow colors introduced in the early 1960's.A decade after D&H in Color Volume 2, a good deal has changed in the approach to publishing illustrated railroad books. Color reproduction and layout have improved greatly, many more excellent photographers' work is appearing in print, and books now compete with a plethora of published works and electronically delivered sites for the attention of the railfan audience. In Volume 3, we take elements of the D&H we feel were under-represented in earlier volumes and examine them in a more extensive way. We don't claim to cover every bit of the geography, operations, motive power, or history of the D&H. We had two goals in mind in putting this volume together: first, to complement the first two Morning Sun volumes on the D&H; second, to find pictures that capture the elements that made the D&H such a fascinating subject for such a long period of time.The organization of the book is by geography, but unlike most books on the D&H, we're starting at the northern end of the railroad, in Canada, and ending up at the southern end of the line in northeastern Pennsylvania. Why go north to south? Maybe it's a photographer's preference. Southbound trains usually are the ones with the good lighting, especially in the darker months of the year. Perhaps it has appeared that the Canadian end of the line has been treated as an afterthought in other books. We think it gives this volume a slightly different feel than other books on the D&H.Before we get started with the photo essay, let's get a sense of the history of the Delaware & Hudson. It's a story that's been told as well and as completely as it can be done by master photographer and historian Jim Shaughnessy, so we'll try to hit only the main points that will prepare the reader for the pictures that follow.If the clich"the only constant is change" has any validity, it certainly applies to the Delaware & Hudson in the second half of the 20th century. At a time when other roads saved money by adopting simple and drab one-color paint schemes, the D&H transformed its image by changing from plain locomotive black to a beautiful blue and gray scheme. When most of the smaller Eastern roads slipped into bankruptcy, the D&H for a time stayed marginally profitable. When most roads eliminated older power, the D&H constantly surprised, adding Alco PA's and Baldwin Sharks, rebuilt RS3's and C424's, leasing or acquiring engines formerly owned by a plethora of other roads, and keeping a few of the venerable RS3's in operation long after they had ceased to operate on other Class One roads. When other railroads were eliminating their Alco power, the D&H continued to use its Schenectady-built engines along with units from GE and EMD. While most passenger operations in the nation were standardized, the D&H partnered with Amtrak to run its Albany-Montreal service with engines proudly wearing Champlain Blue paint and D&H lettering. The D&H was a breath of fresh air in the stifling atmosphere of post-Conrail railroading in the Northeast. Right up to its takeover by the CP in the 1990's, it was the most unpredictable railroad in the region, and, to the growing number of rail fans who ventured to D&H country, the most photogenic and unusual.
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