Railroading on the D&H Sonnyvale branch
WILLIAM SCHAUMBURG
The Jasperdale GLF Co-op is about to re- ceive a carload of feed. The morning sun highlights the new D&H “lightning stripe” scheme which first appeared on the road’s new RS-11’s. RS-2’s all sport the new look and now RS-3’s are emerging from the paint shop at Colonie in blue and gray.
which prompts Bill to announce that so and so is doing “long division.” Even though, as in real life, the
branch to Sonnyvale is entirely within yard limits, the crew is mindful that a scheduled train, passenger local No. 161, will be heading up the branch at 7:40 a.m. Thus, any switching move that requires venturing out onto the branch needs to be timed accordingly. We’ve been reminded that the passen- ger crew would not look kindly on a de- lay and that someone would likely have some explaining to do. When our train is made up and the passenger local has passed, we depart Junction Yard and head onto the branch. Crossing a stream, the engi- neer gives a couple of toots to the John- son twins, who are already out sunning themselves. Legends from the actual D&H Washington branch, the girls ac- knowledge the crew–more “reality.” Arriving at Jasperdale, our
train
brakes to a stop shy of Gus Pike cross- ing. Experienced operators block the
46 20 21 Sonnyvale Fenimore Jct 2 Kip Grant’s HO scale
D&H Sonnyvale branch Room size: 12′-9″×19′-0″
Drawing by Ken Lawrence 1-Bronk Coal
2-Buesing Coal and Oil 3-McKinney Feeds 4-Yard office 5-Team track 6-Tool house
7-Holly Hill Creamery 8-Hudson Paper Box
9-Cabin
10-Sheldon farm 11-Depot
12-GLF Farmer’s Co-op 13-Freight dock
14-LeFebvre Lumber Supply 15-Adirondak Bottled Gas 16-Snack bar
17-Texaco gas station 18-DPW garage 19-Gate tower
20-St Stanley’s School 21-Church
22-Fort Antiques 23-Team track with ramp 24-Pinky’s Tavern
Hill Freight’s cars in order: those bound for Jasperdale followed by Sonnyvale and, lastly, Fenimore. Jim was careful
25-Freight house
26-Dempsey Block & Steel 27-French Louie’s Camping Supplies 28-Earl Garden Tools
29-R. Cohen & Son Scrap yard 30-Folger Produce
1 D&H main line 3 23 24 25 26 4 5 Junction 7 6 8 27
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22 19 11
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Jasperdale 14
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Sheldon’s Curve
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Fenimore 9
to place the Sonnyvale l.c.l. (less-than- carload) car at the head of the Sonny- vale block because accompanying his
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