NEB&W Guide to Green Island, NY - Not Modeled

Last Update: 2009-09-21

Green Island Table of Contents
Layout Photo Gallery Table of Contents

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Ford Plant

• Thomas Edison apparently, due to his involvement with GE in Schenectady, used to hunt and fish in the northern section of Green Island. He introduced his friend, Henry Ford, to this region, and Ford saw an opportunity to establish a plant here in 1922, to make radiators and springs. The building was just recently (2004) torn down. Unfortunately, we don't have room to model this, either.
  • [Postcard view from across the river.]
  • [Prototype photo, c. 1931.]
  • [Ford factory c. 2002.]

To The West

• The D&H had a line that ran directly west from the lift bridge to their main in Watervliet. It paralleled the Troy & Schenectady (NYC branch), but the T&S line was slowly climbing. At the main, the D&H formed a wye, with one leg that had to run under the T&S.
  • [Topographic map, c. 1953.]
  • [Aerial photo, looking east c. '48, from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  • [Coal dealer, c. '31, looking east. Looks like a silo at the end, and the rest, bunkers.]
  • [1919 Valuation photo, V9a-5, looking north. This was the stone culvert that T&S built to cross a branch of the Mohawk River.]
  • [Photo c. 1972 of this culvert.]
  • [1919 Valuation photo, V9a-4, of a small deck girder. I don't know what this was crossing. Maybe the original narrow Erie canal.]
  • [1919 Valuation photo, V9a-3, crossing Rt. 32, looking south. I believe the trusses were to cross the Erie/Barge canal. (This crossing shows on the above aerial photo, but by that time the trusses and canal had been eliminated.)]
  • [1919 Valuation photo, V9a-2, crossing Rt. 32, looking east. The higher girder bridge on the right is the T&S, already a few feet higher than the D&H.]
  • [2004 photo by John Scott of this same view.]
  • [1919 Valuation photo, V9a-1, looking south, of the one leg of the D&H wye crossing under the T&S.]

See our Layout Guide for Green Island.

For information on individual stores and businesses within the area being modeled, see the NEB&W City Directory.

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