The CSX River Subdivision
Highland Falls To
Newburgh
Photos
Copyright © 2006 Lewis Bogaty
except as indicated.
Be sure to see Lewis Bogaty's article "Railfanning the CSX River Subdivision - Along the River from Highland Falls to Newburgh" in the May 2006 Railpace News Magazine.
Highland Falls
Above: Southbound CSX stack train Q118 passes the foot of Rose Drive, Highland Falls, November 30, 2003.
Below: Winding along the river, north of milepost 45, with the buildings of West Point in the background, November 3, 2005.
Above: A primered engine leads Q108 south of the train
station, with the buildings of West Point visible
in the distance. November 18, 2005. We caught up with this train later in
Closter, NJ. Click to see it.
Above and Below: Q169 moves slowly northbound
through the Highland Falls train station
on August 2, 2007 with a Southern Pacific leader.
West Point
West Point has not been readily accessible recently. However we shot some video there in May 2001. With apologies for the quality, here are some stills made from those video frames.
Above: Southbound past the West Point train station on May 13, 2001.
Below: Garbage train K277 on May 25, 2001.
Above and Below: CSX coal train V798 emerges from the south end of the West Point tunnel on May 14, 2001.
The train from West Virginia is headed for the power plant at Tompkins Cove, NY.
Above: The view from the top of West Point, as a stack train snakes out of the north end of the tunnel on May 25, 2001.
Below: Southbound Q156 rolls through West Point, seen from Garrison, on the east shore of the Hudson on November 17, 2005.
Storm King Mountain
Above: Q402 winds its way north below Storm King Mountain
on September 11, 2005.
Above: Q111 northbound below Storm King Mountain on October 1, 2005.
Below: A New Haven engine leads a Metro-North
commuter train into the twin tunnels at Breakneck Ridge
on the east shore of the Hudson. Seen from Storm King Mountain on March 18,
2006.
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