Capital Region Rails, Volume 1: North and East of Albany, 1960s-1990s

Softcover, 80 pages, 8.

5 x 11 in., Color photographs and illustrations. Since the railroad era began, New York State's Capital Region has been an area of convergence -- most famously for the New York Central, Delaware & Hudson, and the Boston & Maine. However, from the 1960s through the 1990s, this area underwent a lot of change.

Mergers and abandonments left the Capital Region railroad scene scaled back at the end of this era. Author Tim Stockwell -- who was a child in the 1980s and 1990s -- witnessed a lot of this change but had not yet picked up a camera. Through the lenses of photographers like Jim Connor, Jeff Plant, Jeremy Plant, John Sesonske, Gordy Smith, and Jack Wright, Tim takes us on a journey through the Capital Region, with special attention paid to lines that no longer exist.

Volume 1 starts in Albany, then takes a geographical tour in the following order: the D&H Colonie Main Line, the D&H Waterford / Green Island Branch, Mechanicville Yard, the B&M / D&H 'Joint Mainline,' Saratoga Springs, the D&H Adirondack Branch, the Greenwich & Johnsonville, the B&M 'West End,' the B&M Troy Branch, the Penn Central, Conrail, and D&H in Troy, Rensselaer, Amtrak's Hudson Line, the Fort Orange Paper Company, the Upper Harlem Division, and the B&A.