Peekskill Valley Railroad

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Peekskill Valley Railroad
Peekskill Iron Works at Peekskill, New York State
Peekskill Iron Works in Peekskill in the US state of New York
Route of the Peekskill Valley Railroad
Topographic map by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule, 1891
Gauge : 610 mm ( 2 foot track )
Legend
   
 0.0 Peekskill Iron Works
   
 11.3 km Peekskill , New York
Railway station, station - across
 New York Central and Hudson River RR , now Metro-North

The Peekskill Valley Railroad was a 11.3 km long narrow gauge - works railway at Peekskill in the US state of New York . It was inaugurated in 1873.

Location and history

Abram Hallenback supervises children swimming on Annaville Creek at Peekskill

The Peekskill Valley Railroad was built in 1873 by the Peekskill Iron Company from their blast furnaces in Peekskill, Westchester County, to a stop on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad . The track gauge was 610 mm (2 feet ) and was the narrowest-gauge carrier in the United States at the time of its construction.

According to other sources, high quality iron ore from the Croft or Indian Lake Mines was transported downhill on the narrow-gauge railway in the Canopus Valley to the Peekskill Blast Furnace of the Empire States Ironworks on Annsville Creek. The mine was shut down in 1887 and the tracks dismantled for scrapping in 1910.

The superstructure and the equipment were very light. The weight of the locomotive was four tons.

Web links

Commons : Peekskill Valley Railroad  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Howard Fleming: Narrow gauge railways in America. A sketch of their rise, progress and success: valuable statistics as to grades, curves, weight of rail, locomotives, cars, etc. 1876. Page 86.
  2. ↑ Otto Vondrak et al: "Peekskill Valley Railroad" 2-foot gauge - 1873rd
  3. ↑ Empire States Ironworks and Peekskill Valley Railroad on a map by Joseph Rudolf Bien, 1893.

Coordinates: 41 ° 19 '6.6 "  N , 73 ° 54" 58.8 "  W.