ABOVE: A southbound New York Central pas- senger train arrives at Albany Union Station, passing Tower B at the west end of the com- plex in March 1959. In 1968, the railroad moved all passenger operations to the much smaller Albany-Rensselaer station across the river, and the right of way was sold for high- way construction. The only surviving element of this photo today is the Central Warehouse.
RIGHT: A three-unit set of Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners labors eastward at East Chatham on New York Central’s Boston & Albany in April 1949. The B&A was the Central’s freight line crossing the Berkshires to serve New England.
OPPOSITE: A westbound New York Central freight out of Selkirk Yard approaches the di- amond with the Delaware & Hudson at Voorheesville, N.Y., in April 1962. The dia- mond was removed in 2000 since most D&H traffic now travels in a circuitous route around Albany to reach northern connections.
PREVIOUS PAGES AND INSET OPPOSITE: A Penn Central westbound freight crosses the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge over the Hudson River near Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y., head- ing for Selkirk Yard on July 12, 1970. The bridge is part of the Castleton Cutoff project com- pleted by the New York Central in 1924 to alleviate the traffic bottleneck through Albany due to the many grades surrounding the valley. The parallel Berkshire Connector was opened in 1959 to connect the New York State Thruway with the Massachusetts Turnpike, further erod- ing the railroad’s share of freight traffic from New England.
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