EffectiveSeptember 8, 2008 U&DCORRIDOR Ulster & Delaware NEWS FLASH! DAY LINE The Belleayre Fall Crafts EXPRESS Festival / Oktoberfest has been moved to D&U Exhibition Vol1, No. 2 Grounds at Arkville adjacent to the: U D CORRIDOR PRESERVATION DAY 2008 GALA CELEBRATION Saturday,Oct 11th, 2008 10am-6pm Highmount & Arkville NY

If you’re not already planning to attend the Corridor’s big ‘end of the season’ railfan event on October 11, now you have even more reason to reserve your tickets today! Already a day-long circus of railfan activities targeted at U&D corridor enthusiasts, our humble railfan event has a new neighbor in the 29th Annual Belleayre Fall Crafts Festival and Oktoberfest - with dozens of vendors, beer and food tents and bands. The festival gets an average of 8000 people a day so railfan event ticket holders will be entitled to VIP parking and free access to the adjacent festival. Besides hosting our event’s charter train and bobber caboose maiden run, the D&U will be operating atmaximum capacity which will be interesting in itself and a great photo op! Members of TMNY, CMRR, ESRM, O&WRRHS and UDRRHS get special VIP $10 tickets to U&D corridor celebration if reserved before 9/28. Speeder Rides on UDRRHS Day Line Express is published by the Pine Hill Horseshoe Curves, NYC Style Ulster & Delaware Railroad Historical Society, 101 Bridge Street, Roxbury Catskill Mt. Branch two car photo special New York 12474. with a meet in Roxbury., Maiden Run of udrrhs.org / 607-326-7135. All reproduction rights reserved and protected by authors’ O&W Bobber 8206 and More! individual copyrights. Entire publication copyright 2008 UDRRHS. For more information on the Society or to become a DETAILS INSIDE!!! member and get this publication directly, please visit udrrhs.org THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 2 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Ridethe first mile of the old U&D at The Trolley Museum of New York!

Map Reproductions Courtesy of Evan Jennings

By Evan Jennings, President TMNY,with Doug Kadow UDRRHS

Whether you like rapid transit and trolley cars, the U&D, or both, the Trolley Museum of NewYorkis one of the region's rail attractions you will want to visit. It wasn't imagined in 1983, when the Museum moved from Brooklyn to the former U&D Rondout Shops property, that there would someday be townhouses and trendy restaurants as next-door neighbors, yet they stand there today, among the specialty shops, maritime museums and tour boat dock along the Kingston waterfront, where Rondout Creek enters into the Hudson. This neighborhood, once the center of the town of Rondout, is today part of Downtown Kingston.

Thomas Cornell, builder of the Ulster & Delaware, began the railroad's construction in 1868 under the name Rondout and Oswego, the latter being the Great Lakes port he hoped it would reach to tap the lucrative business then enjoyed almost exclusively by the New York Central Railroad and the Erie Canal. Long before Cornell began his railroad venture, Rondout had become the tidewater port and East end of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which hauled a sizable percentage of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal (hard & clean burning) used to heat homes throughout much of the nineteenth century. Cornell in fact had a near monopoly on hauling the barges that arrived at Rondout over the canal downriver to New York City with his fleet of sidewheel steam powered towboats.

Located along The Strand in Rondout, the Trolley Museum's neighborhood has gone through many transitions over the last two centuries. Besides canal and railroad terminals, a number of passenger and freight steamboats called Rondout their home port, including the most famous of all Hudson River steamboats, theMary Powell . Cornell owned Above: TMNY and U&D Corridor present day East end of theMary Powell for a time before selling it to the Hudson River Day Line, track, at Kingston Point. Below, the largest Day Liner, the which used it as a backup boat in its final years. In this service, it would Washington Irving prepares to dock at Kingston Point and have been likely that the Day Line used it on the Rondout-New York detrain passengers for U&DRR Train #7 its locomotive and express run on peak days, in the joint U&D boat/train operation. After the baggage car on the section of roadbed pictured above. canal quit in 1899, the U&D shops, terminal facilities and freight customers kept this area very much alive with commerce and industry through the mid-twentieth century. When the railroad finally quit in 1977 (after becoming New York Central in 1932, then Penn Central in 1968 and finally Conrail in 1976), the area had become run down and attracted few visitors who didn't have business at the few remaining industries in the neighborhood. Since the Trolley Museum moved in, the neighborhood has grown and prospered, and today is awash with fine restaurants, rail and maritime museums, tour boat operations, a bandstand and marina where large private boats line one end of the creek shoreline, at a point where giant mountains of anthracite once awaited transshipment on Island Dock in the center of the creek. Now, growth and change along the Kingston Waterfront is the norm and the Museum is doing its best to keep up with the trend it helped start. In recent years, the Trolley Museum hired an administrator, Steve Ladin who has been arranging events, recruiting volunteers, seeking grants and increasing local awareness of the Museum. THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 3 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Car 358 circa 1991 Car 358 today!

Special events often see Steve at the grill producing hot dogs and burgers for hungry volunteers! Stephen Finkle, Kingston's Economic Development Director, spearheaded two projects on the Museum and neighborhood's behalf that were funded by the New York Department of State and administered by the City of Kingston (which Rondout is now a part of). In 2006 the parking lot was realigned, paved, curbed, fenced and lighted, providing convenient parking for Museum visitors during the day and patrons of the restaurants across the street at night. Additionally, in 2007, engineering firm HDR was hired to produce a study to assess the Trolley Museum's track (U&D MP 0.0- 2.4, and owned by the city), historic cars, power and utility requirements for proper operation of the museum's almost exclusively electric powered collection, and to recommend the upgrades and construction that will be needed to make electric trolley operation a reality into the center of Kingston proper. Once the report is finalized, the Museum will begin a campaign to raise the needed cash to build the system and upgrade much of the track for electric operation. This will be the largest project that the museum has undertaken to date.

In the meantime, the Museum operates a restored (now diesel powered) trolley car between T. R. Gallo Park and Kingston Point (MP 0). The wooden Day Line pier with its imbedded railroad tracks is gone, but Museum visitors can once again ride the first mile of the old U&D in near entirety, tracing the route of the U&D's summer-only Day Line Express train that once plied this trackage daily except Sunday (the Day Line did not operate Sundays for much of its existence).

Visitors to the neighborhood can spend the entire day in Rondout. Besides the Trolley Museum, a dozen plus highly rated and very popular restaurants, unique shopping, two maritime museums and theM/V Rip Van Winkle (which offers a 21st Century abbreviated version of an old time Day Line cruise on the Hudson) offer visitors a variety of options when spending the day “on The Strand.” The Museum's trolley ride has the potential to evolve from just being an 'excursion' between Broadway and Kingston Point into an extended route with more hours of operation. Any extension is likely to mix old right-of-way (such as the spur that supplied coal to Hudson Cement) with entirely new routing.

While the Trolley Museum's big projects get a lot of public attention, the Museum is also working to improve the appearance and accessibility of the site and building. This Spring, paths were paved from the parking lot to the building eliminating the familiar lumpy gravel. The Museum's rolling stock is being assessed for its future potential and in some cases that can result in its transfer to another museum. Last year an Atlantic City trolley was sold and a new home is being sought for the Queensboro Bridge Railway trolley. The restoration needs of these cars are extensive and would be best done elsewhere, considering the projects that must get higher priority.

The Museum is not only a place to enjoy an afternoon and a ride to Kingston Point along the very first mile of the old Ulster & Delaware, but like most rail tourist operations, it's a work in progress and a labor of love made possible by dedicated volunteers, associated members, community cooperation and support, and successfully requested and awarded grants based on value to the community and its citizens.

You can help support the Museum and its efforts by simply visiting the museums exhibit hall and restoration shop, riding the trolley to Kingston Point and purchasing items in the Museum's gift shop. However, you are encouraged to join its ranks as a sustaining member, helping the museum meet its minimum operational requirements, and showing your support for the Museum's vision and projects, a critical factor in accessing the funds needed to complete the Museum's projects and vision for a much needed public trolley operation for Kingston and the region’s residents and visitors alike.

The museum is open 12-5pm Saturdays and Sundays. For more information on visiting or joining the Trolley Museum of New York, please visit tmny.org or stop by when the Museum is open and the staff will be happy to answer your questions as they welcome you to a wonderful museum that has helped its community in countless ways, and has the potential to significantly benefit its neighbors, community and region in even greater ways moving forward. THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 4 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY Coming in the next issue of DayLine UpExpress: & Down, One Milepost at a Time The conclusion of the historyPart of Two - MP 0.39 to MP 0.93 U&D Mile One, Trolley Museum of NY Feature (ride U&D Mile By Harold W Oakhill One), Corridor Preservation Day Ticket Order form, UDRRHS VolunteerWe Crew begin Program..and here where we left off in the previous issue, on our way West toward Rondout,more!! 0.39 miles from Kingston Point......

Next was a spur to a Standard Oil dealer, built in 1919 at the west end of the passing siding, on the north side at MP .39. The spur branched out into three tracks with a total capacity of 10 cars. The SO buildings, built of red terra cotta block with little art-deco details, still stand at the corner of North Street and The Strand. The 1964 USGS map shows six oil tanks of various sizes here. The tracks and the tanks are long gone and the property is now owned by Millens, a scrap dealer.

Just west of the Standard Oil property was a 300 ft. spur to the Kingston City Railroad power house for the delivery of coal. KCRR was one of the two streetcar companies in Kingston. The brick building still stands and is now part of the Millens scrap metal operation. K On the opposite side of the mainline (south side) was a 1,600 ft. siding lined with industries that sat between the railroad and the Rondout Creek. Beginning at the east end was the gas works of the Kingston Gas & Electric Co. There was a gas producing plant and an expandable gas storage tank about 90 ft. in diameter as well as some smaller tanks. A 300 ft. spur, added in 1925, entered the property for delivering coal and for shipping coke, ammonia,0 coal tar, and other chemical by-products of gas production. The property is now owned by Central Hudson Gas and Electric and nearly all the buildings, the tanks and the spur track are gone. A chain link fence surrounds the property and until recently the fence still had a gate where the spur went in.

Next was the W. J. Turck Co. lumber yard, most likely dating back to the 19th century when Rondout was an important rail-to-water transshipment point for Catskill lumber. The lumber company property spanned the railroad, and in the late 19th and early 20 th centuries huge stacks of lumber lined both sides of the tracks for 300 ft.

Continuing west was the Hewitt Boyce Rubbing Mill, a bluestone cutting and transshipping yard, another important industry in 19th century Rondout. There was a building here for cutting and dressing bluestone for use as sidewalks, curbing and roof shingles. The yard ran for about 400 ft along the railroad, room for about 10 freight cars of the early 20th century. Photos show a forest of stiff- leg derricks, for moving materials about, covering both the stone yard and the lumber yard.

th THE STRAND For the next 400 ft west along the tracks photos and maps show in the late 19 and early 20th centuries an ever-changing succession of warehouses and industrial buildings squeezed between the tracks and the Rondout Creek. There was no side track or spur here, so these businesses were not likely served directly by the railroad.

The bluestone industry declined rapidly in the early 20th century as Portland cement replaced it for sidewalks and curbing. By the mid 20th century oil storage tanks had replaced the lumber and stone yards and other businesses that had been in this area. Oil companies included R. K. Ballard, the Texas Co. (Texaco), and Tyde Water Oil. Later Kingston Oil Supply Co. (Kosco), occupied most of the site. Most of the oil probably arrived by barge, but oil deliveries by rail probably continued into the 1960s. The author remembers seeing a train of tank cars coming up out of Rondout around 1968.

Proceeding west the mainline next cuts through the property of the Newark Lime and Cement Co. Built on a hillside overlooking the Rondout Creek in 1850, the mill produced Rosendale cement from limestone quarried out of the hill directly Map Reproductions Courtesy of Evan Jennings behind it. By 1872 it was producing 1,000 barrels of cement THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 5 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY U D

D&U’s Alco S-4 and NYC painted coaches CORRIDOR UDRRHS Speeder Program chairman Neil Maizner about to cross Route 28 in Arkville pilots rail car passengers West of Roxbury PRESERVATIONDAY 2008 GALA CELEBRATION Saturday, Oct 11th, 2008 10am-6pm Highmount & Arkville NY Speeder Rides on the famous Pine Hill CORRIDOR PRESERVATION DAY TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE BY Horseshoe Curves! PRE-RESERVATION ONLY TO CURRENT MEMBERS AND Alco powered NYC Catskill Mountain EMPLOYEES OF REGIONALLY Branch stylePhoto Special , with a RECOGNIZED RAILROAD MUSEUMS, ADVOCACY GROUPS mid-runMeet at Roxbury Depot! AND TOURIST RAILROADS FOR THE SPECIAL PRICE OF $10, AND 21st century maiden run of FOR UP TO THREE GUESTS AT O&W Bobber Caboose 8206! THE SAME PRICE WITH EACH CARD CARRYING MEMBER. Tour the D&U’s Luxury Domeliner PRE-RESERVATIONCLOSES 9/28. AFTER THAT DATE, TICKETS dinner train, the Rip Van Winkle Flyer WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE AT THE GATE FOR THIRTY Adjacent to the Belleayre Fall Festival DOLLARS EACH. IF YOU ARE held this year in Arkville - NOT A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE VIP parking for U&DCPD celebration ticket holders ABOVE GROUPS, YOU’LL WANT TO JOIN ONEASAPTO COME OUT Barbeque with all the fixins, book signings, EVEN, OR EVEN SAVE A FEW railroadiana dealers, tour roxbury depot museum, BUCKS! round trip rail fare Arkville to Roxbury, Annual Arrive Highmount by 11:30am Corridor Preservation awards and more! to catch all the action!

NAME:______Ticket Order Form Member of (check all that apply): TMNY___ CMRR___ ESRM___ UDRRHS___ O&WRRHS___ NYO&W bobber NRHS other___ chapter(s)______Other rail group affiliation___ Group Name______8206 spends her (you must present a membership card for one of the above organizations at the gate to get you and your guest’s admission badges) 101st winter Address______City______State____ Zip______holding hands with Daytime Phone______Evening Phone______Cell:______a much younger gent in Arkville! Email:______The old girl is Your Order: Make checks and money orders payable to Ulster&Delaware RRHS8 standing up on her Your Admission...... ___.___ wheels for the first time in decades, Number of Guests (up to three per order, ONLY $10 EACH)___total for guests ___.___ thanks to UDRRHS Add $5 for ticket handling, mailing costs and event program...... _$5.00 project chair John LaBarre and his TOTAL ENCLOSED...... $___.__ crew. Pre-Registration closes September 28th, 2008 and all advance orders must be received by that date - after that, tickets will only be available at the event gate for $30 each - all orders received after that date will be returned. Pre-Reserve your Corridor Preservation Day Tickets today by completing the above form and mailing it with your check or money order to CPD-2008, care of U&DRRHS, 101 Bridge Street, Roxbury NY 12474. All Tickets, including one complete four color event program per order, will be mailed on September 29th. All sales final, event will be held rain or shine. NYC Catskill Mountain Branch train seats are limited to the first 100 tickets purchased. Area highway and best trackside photo location map will be included with each ticket package. If arriving Highmount after 12:00 noon, please continue along route 28 to Arkville Depot where the event gate will be relocated. THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 6 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY a day. The plant was in operation until at least the 1920s. Around the turn of the 20th century Rosendale cement began to be replaced by Portland cement, which is cheaper and dries faster. Three spur tracks branched off the mainline and went into various parts of the Newark property. Beginning at the east there was a 383 ft. spur on the south side of the tracks into an open area beside the Rondout Creek. A tram way ran overhead to deliver barrels of cement to steamboats and barges, but there were no loading docks or other facilities for loading or unloading railroad cars. Photos suggest that coal and other supplies for the mill may have been delivered here, but it is not clear how goods were moved up the hill and into the mill complex. Continuing west the mainline crosses The Strand and passed between cement storehouses on each side of the street. Here were two more spurs; a 237 ft. one on the north side, and a 179 ft. one opposite it on the south. The northern spur ran into one of the storehouses and was presumably for loading cement. There was room for two freight cars within the building. The spur on the south side was for delivery of barrel staves for the mill's cooperage. The company made its own barrels for shipping cement, up to 1,000 barrels a day! By the mid 20th century the cement mill buildings were gone and portions of the property were occupied by oil storage tanks of the Standard Oil Co. To the west the Newark property abutted the roundhouse and shops of the U&D RR, which we will explore next time. ToAlbany 30 Windham To 23 Hudson The “Lost Art” of Oneonta 23 Amtrak 23A and Exit 21 depot gardening Cooperstown Hunter 32 Catskill 6 Roxbury former U&DRR (abandoned) Tannersville A century ago, many railroad stations 87 boasted significant gardens, which are Track Operated in 2008 28 CATSKILL 32

often seen in old picture postcards. Two(under restoration) 9 years ago, Roxbury Depot Museum Exit 20 Catskill Scenic Trail 30 28 Saugerties senior tour guide Howie Futterman MOUNTAINS U&D began to use his green thumb around Corridor Rail 5 Phoenecia 1 Attraction Arkville Pine Hill 4 the depot to make the place a little more (see below) Woodstock 199 pleasing to the eye as the building core 3 Exit 19 Mt.Pleasant 28 waits out its turn for restoration. His U&DCorridor 2 Rondout U&D in two foot letters of white stone Kingston 1 Rhinebeck on the street side of the building is a Rail Attractions Amtrak neigborhood attraction, and gets a lot of (1)TROLLEY MUSEUM of NEW YORK From positive attention from passers by, as do Museum and Trolley Rides, equipment displays and gift New York shop noon-5pm Sat, Sun & Hol. Memorial Day to his plantings by the depot’s street side Columbus Day. Adults $5, Seniors and Children 2-12 $3 City 87 entrance. This year, he added the mini- www.tmny.org garden between the tracks. Depot (5) DELAWARE & ULSTER RAILROAD visitors and D&U passengers love (2) CATSKILL MOUNTAIN RAILROAD Scenic train rides and dinner train charters,Arkville to Roxbury, Service from Kingston Plaza set to commence fall 2008 visit equipment displays and gift shop ride includes stop at Roxbury Howie’s gardens, and he answers www.catskillmtrailroad.com for more information Depot Museum. Trains departArkville 11:00am and 2:00pm Sat questions on them when he has time & Sun May 24-October 26. Also Thu & Fri July 3-September 1 between depot tours. (3) CATSKILL MOUNTAIN RAILROAD First Class tickets, $26, Adult Coach $12, Child Coach $7, Below right: D&U’s 5017 with Scenic Train Rides Cold Brook to Phoenicia, gift shop - ride Senior Coach $9 www.durr.org includes stop atEmpire State Railway Museum - Trains engineer Vic Stevens at the throttle and depart from Mt. Pleasant 11:30, 1:30 and 3:30 Sat, Sun & (6) ROXBURY DEPOT MUSEUM Brakeman Jake Hubbell on the pilot. Hol May 24 through October 26 Also Fridays July 4-Sept 1, Railroad museum inside historic depot, gift shop 11:30am- Guarding the crossing with red flag is October 3-October 26 Adults $14, Children 4-11 $8 3:30pm Sat & Sun May 24-October 26. Also Thu & Fri July 3- Howie’s son Stevie (also a UDRRHS www.catskillmtrailroad.com Sept. 1Admission free, donations encouraged www.udrrhs.org member) and in his trademark tye-die (4) EMPIRE STATE RAILWAY MUSEUM RDM staff shirt, the master gardner Museum in restored depot, equipment displays and gift shop Ulster & Delaware RR Historical Society himself. Below left: the museum’s 11am-4pm Sat, Sun & Hol Memorial Day to Columbus Day. Officers, Directors, Committee Chairpersons and Operating Crew street side entrance and U&D in Admission free, donations encouraged www.esrm.com crushed marble. President - Doug Kadow; Vice President - Harold Oakhill Sect’y & Treasurer - Richard Makse; National Director - Donald Bishop (also Historian for NRHS National)

Director Emeritus - Alton Weiss; Directors-Dale Flansberg; Gordon Davids; Burr Hubbell; Joe Marsh; Kevin Patton; John LaBarre; Vic Stevens; Paul Tillmann (Asst. Treasurer)

Equipment Preservation Co-Chairmen John LaBarre & Joe Marsh Corridor Preservation Chair - Ernie Hunt; U&D Corridor Trail-Rail Stewardship Chair - Burr Hubbell Speeder Program Chair - Neil Maizner Roxbury Depot Museum Chairs Paul Tillman & Doug Kadow Promotional Director - Janet Maizner; Asst. Treasurer-Michele Kadow; Publications - Dick Makse & Doug Kadow; Administration: Dick Makse, MicheleKadow, Paul Tillmann; Senior Agent, Roxbury Depot - DavidScudder; RDM Senior Tour Guide - Howie Futterman; Roxbury Yardmaster - Malcolm Hughes Roxbury Asst. Yardmaster, Ellen Hughes THE DAY LINE EXPRESS - SEPT 17, 2008 VOL. 1, NO. 2 7 ULSTER & DELAWARE RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY UDRRHS Society Field Work Spotlight Crewing the Rip Van Winkle Flyer and the East Branch Express The year 2007 saw the inauguration of the joint UDRRHS/D&URR volunteer crew program with Society volunteers serving as trainmen/conductors aboard D&U coach trains each Saturday. This allowed D&U and the Society to also offer a first class service aboard former NYC streamlined observation car #61, which was coupled to the back of each Saturday train. Society crewmen not only interfaced with passengers making many new friends and increasing D&U repeat business, but also served as docents, giving first class passengers a history lesson en-route to Arkville. The D&U shared a portion of each adult ticket with the Society every day of operation in thanks for our efforts aboard the train, and for our operation of the Roxbury Depot Museum and the free admission granted each D&U passenger, all of whom were invited off the train during the 30 minute Roxbury stop for a guided tour of the depot and museum.

We decided to improve upon a good thing in 2008 by opening up the volunteer crewman program to all members, and by further qualifying each volunteer as a D&U brakeman, in case their assistance was needed when making switching maneuvers. On the opening day of D&U operation (May 24th ), members John Thorpe, Joe Marsh, John LaBarre, Harold Oakhill, Al Weiss and Doug Kadow took a class in train safety given by D&U CMO and Society director Vic Stevens, and all worked the 11:00am season opening train to Roxbury. En route, they helped up sell the Roxbury Depot Museum's amenities including our snack and gift shop, netting us a season opening income record in train crew, gift shop and donation jar revenue. Gift Shop manager, Depot Ops chief and Society director Paul Tillmann had the snack shop stocked and ready for the throngs of passengers we handled on this unusually warm spring day.

The Society is still seeking additional volunteer crewman. If you are interested in being trainman for a day and helping spread the love of Catskill Mountain Railroading to D&U's passengers, working aboard six and ten car trains (the East Branch Express and the Rip Van Winkle Flyer respectively), and sharing your knowledge of the old U&D, please contact Doug Kadow at 607-326-7317 or John LaBarre at 914-666-9158. It’s fun; it’s easy and it helps both the Society and the D&U!

Coming in the next issue of DAY LINE EXPRESS:

Above: UDRRHS Volunteer Membership in the U.&D.R.R. Historical Conductor/Trainman John LaBarre Society: prepares to detrain first class The Ulster & Delaware Railroad Historical Society (a NYS 501c3 not for profit organization ) is the passengers moments after his 10 car regional chapter of the National Railway Historical Rip Van Winkle Flyer arrived at Society who’s mission is to preserve the history of Roxbury on a beautiful September railroading in the Catskill Mountains and Mid- day in 2007. Up ahead, coach Hudson Valley. While advocating and supporting rail preservation and restoration in the region, the passengers are climbing down the Society holds a tight focus on activity along the vestibule stairs onto the station route of our namesake railroad, better known as the platform while a vehicle at trackside U&D corridor (most appropriate since it traverses services the dining and lounge cars both Ulster and Delaware counties). In addition to publishing our quarterlyRip Van Winkle Flyer , the in the consist. Former NYC parlor- Society’s flagship historic journal, and its new observation #61 brings up the rear sibling, theDay Line Express , the Society focuses of the 700 foot long consist pulled on educational and preservation programs and is by Alco RS-36 #5017. The presently working toward restoring the former U&D Roxbury Depotand expanding the Roxbury observation car was used on trains Depot Museum currently housed inside. The such as the , Motor City Society holds an annual membership meeting and Special and several annual events and programs for our (after the original observation cars members and those of other regional rail organizations. Member dues are $20 per year with for that train were retired) and in the an option for NRHS membership through the later’s consist, would have been cut Society for an addtional fee. For more information out at Albany with other Montreal or to join the Society, please visit our website at bound cars to make up the D&H’s udrrhs.org, or call the Roxbury Depot Museum at Lawrentian 607-326-7135. You may also write us at 101 Bridge for that city.. Street, Roxbury NY12474.