NEB&W Guide to Lansingburgh/North Troy, NY - Not Modeled

Last Update: 2009-04-22

North Troy/Lansingburgh Table of Contents
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Near Hoosick Street

• Other views of the area just north of Hoosick Street that we don't have room to model:
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection.]
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection.]
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection. That's the B&M freight house on the right. We are looking north.]
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection.]
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection. That's Hopkin's Coal on the left.]
  • [Photo from the D&H Collection.]
  • [B&M freight house looking south, c. 1973.]

• There was a couple of through truss bridges that carried Rensselaer Street over the yard, so occasionally you might hear of the yard as the Rensselaer St. yards.
  • [Trackside view c. 2009 of where the yard used to be. The road on the right is Rensselaer Street but it now terminates on 6th Avenue.]

Middleburgh St. Engine Facility

• The actual engine facility as located just south of Middleburgh Street, so the yard most commonly was called Middleburgh St. yard. The roundhouse still stands, the only known roundhouse still surviving in the entire Capital District.
  • [Valuation map, I believe courtesy of the Boston & Maine Historical Society. The Rensselaer Street overpass is halfway down the yard and the three industries we model from here are at the bottom.]
  • [Color photo looking west c. 1950.]
  • [Jim Shaughnessy photo c. 1957.]

Waterford Bridge

• The bridge to Waterford was located way at the north end of Lansingburgh. Built as a covered bridge in 1809, it was the first bridge across the river in the Capital District. About a century later, it burned and was replaced with a steel truss. There was a huge trolley barn just off the bridge which later became a J.M. Fields department store.
  • [Postcard of the trolley barn with the wood bridge in the distance.]
  • [View of the covered bridge from quite a ways downstream.]
  • [View of the covered bridge from the water.]
  • [The fire.]
  • [The new bridge and the old. (1912 postcard.)]
  • [Another view of the new bridge.]
  • [A view of the new bridge from the end.]

The Rock

• Just around Middleburgh Street is this big lump of rock and for some reason, Sixth Avenue was run right through the middle instead of swerving around it.
  • [Color photo looking west c. 1950.]
  • [Jim Shaughnessy photo of the B&M engine terminal with "The Rock" to the west, in the background.]
  • [The Rock, looking south. (Lousy photo taken from my old camera.)]

• River & Fifth Avenue just north of "The Rock". I believe this is just at the base of Middleburgh Street.
  • [Photo c. WWI.]
  • [Photo c. 2004 of the rear of the church see above.]

Fire Station

• Just about where the above WWI photo was taken, there is a really unique fire station built in 1927.
  • [Photo of the front, c. 2002.]
  • [Photo, c. 2002.]
  • [Photo, c. 2002.]
  • [Close-up photo of the zigzag brick pattern in the cornice, c. 2002.]

• Lansingburgh High School.
  • [Postcard.]

See our Layout Guide for North Troy

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