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Equipment Of The Delaware & Hudson Railroad Volume 1 Passenger Cars
Equipment of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Volume 1: Passenger Cars
Robert Liljestrand and David Sweetland
Soft Cover
48 pages
Copyright
CONTENTS
Map3
Introduction4
Roster5
Passenger Trains6
Wooden Coaches10
Steel Coaches26
Wooden Combines30
Parlor & Diners36
Business Cars38
Baggage & RPO's40
Former D&RGW Cars44
Former Passenger Cars (now Work Equipment)46
Index 48
INTRODUCTION
In 1950, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad operated a 793-mile railroad with a north-south main line between Rouses Point at the Canadian border to Albany, NY, and a line from Schenectady, NY, to Binghamton, NY, and WilkesBarre, PA. Originally organized as the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in 1823, the line expanded into a railroad for the transportation of anthracite coal. By 1950, 21% of its freight revenue came from anthracite, but the line was a major bridge route between the Pennsylvania, Erie and Lackawanna Railroads on the South and the Boston & Maine, Canadian Pacific and Canadian National on the North.
For 1950, freight revenues were over 51 million and passenger revenues about 2 million with an overall operation ratio of 76.8%. Steam power handled 91.8% of all freight train gross-ton-miles. Modern steam power included forty 4-6-6-4s and fifteen 4-8-4s, all built by Alco during the 1940s. Modernizing its locomotive fleet in 1950, the D&H owned thirty-nine diesel road-switchers in freight service, ten in freight or passenger service and fifty-one diesel switchers. The D&H had bypassed the diesel cab unit era in favor of the road switcher.
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