Smoking ALCO RS-3 Working Hard on the Batten Kill Railroad

On December 29, 2019, upon hearing that there was a rare Sunday extra on the Batten Kill Railroad, we set out to catch a real treat: a classic ALCO RS-3 engine pulling 12 cars!

Enjoy the sights and sounds of a vintage ALCO RS-3 diesel engine as it smokes and even restarts at one point in the video!

Originating at Eagle Bridge, New York, the 68 year old Greenwich and Johnsonville Railway RS-3 #4116 works hard to make the first few miles with the 12 cars destined for Salem, NY. The engine would then stall just north of White Creek, and the crew would have to restart the engine and get it rolling again. After the first few miles, things would start to calm down, and the engine would pull smoothly through the small villages of Cambridge and Shushan, as well as through timely rural settings.

The Batten Kill Railroad runs along the former Delaware and Hudson Washington Branch, which used to run from Eagle Bridge, all the way to what is now the Vermont Rail System's Clarendon and Pittsford branch in Castleton, Vermont. For some info about this line, visit this page: https://vtstateparks.com/assets/pdf/d...

Needles to say, this line has seen many ALCOs and other classic engines throughout it's history, and I'll bet if you look at old pictures of trains throughout this section of the line, that not a whole lot has changed since!

Thanks For Watching!