PA number 18 waits at Windsor Station, Montreal for the morning trip
south. Although the D & H used several of their own cars, they had to
borrow other coaches as the need required.DELAWARE AND HUDSON NORTH END PAGE
Although the D & H technically ended at the Canadian border at Rouses Point, NY, they used a line called the Napierville Jct. Railway to reach Montreal. Passenger trains terminated at the Canadian Pacific Windsor Station.
In the mid-1970's the Delaware and Hudson in cooperation with the State of New York and Amtrak began a daylight passenger train between New York and Montreal. The D & H wanted their train to operate with their own equipment rather than the typical Amfleet cars, so they purchased four former Sante Fe Alco PA units and refurbished several cars for this new service. The train were known as the "Adironacks" for the New York mountains.
PA number 18 waits at Windsor Station, Montreal for the morning trip
south. Although the D & H used several of their own cars, they had to
borrow other coaches as the need required.
In the later years freight crews would run a turn around from Rouses Point to the CP yard and return.
D & H 317 in Guilford colors departs the CP yard and passes under the CP
passenger mainline.
A beautiful station on the Napierville Jct. Railway is at Lacolle, PQ.
The 317 and others get ready earlier in the day at Rouses Point, NY.
Rouses Point, NY station.
Chazy, NY 
Unit 361 heading north at Chazy, NY
Plattsburg is the largest town between Albany and Montreal along the D & H.
Willsboro, NY
Westport, NY
Port Henry, NY 
U23B 2301 heads north passing Port Henry, NY
By the 1970's, the station at Fort Ticonderoga was nothing more than a bus shelter so we will skip to Whitehall.
Whitehall, NY station. Whitehall is the junction for the branch to
Rutland, Vt.
The C-628's were in storage here in Whitehall.
Fort Edward, NY station
A leased GP-38 ( ex-Chessie System ) works the yard at Fort Edward.
U23B 2307 races south ahead of a huge thunderstorm at Saratoga Springs.
In the middle of the downpour, the southbound Adirondack arrives at Saratoga
Springs. The two engines are a freight RS-32 and a former Boston and Maine
passenger RS-3. The train today has a leased CP dome car.
At Ballston Spa, the former passenger line went south to Schenectady, while the line east to Mechanicville and the junction with the Boston and Maine. When the new Adirondack service was restored the train operated over the Mechanicville route. Amtrak today goes via Schenectady. Mechanicville was the site of two large parallel freight yards. One was the D & H and the other the B & M.
An RS-3 and An RS-32 switch the yard.
A sampling of shots at Mechanicville engine terminal. Including former Lehigh Valley units, run through Norfolk and Western units, new color schemes and finally in 1990 the yards were closed with everything abandoned.
" XO " tower controlled the diamonds and junction with the B &
M. The B & M came in from the north and crossed the D & H to their
yard on the south side of the two yards.
Mechanicville Station. 1990
PA 19 heads north leaving the station. An old MetroNorth commuter coach is in
the train today.
PA 17 leads the southbound Adirondack crossing the Mohawk River in Cohoes,
NY.
Just north of Albany is the town of Watervliet. This was the site of the main D & H locomotive shops at Colonie.
Numerous Alco RS-3's in various color schemes. The white and brown unit was leased to the Providence and Worcester, while the red one was used by the Vermont Railway.
Views at the shops through the late 1970's to 1990 when the shops were closed. The two former Monongahela ( ex-NYC ) sharks were a hit with the railfan community, but suffered mechanically. The old D & H coaches used on the Adirondack were classic six wheel truck cars. The dome is a CP leased car with a yellow band lettered Delaware and Hudson.
5008 and 5004 lead the north and southbound Adirondack trains this day.
Both seen here at the Amtrak Albany Station.
Today the Delaware and Hudson is owned by the Canadian Pacific. The only yard in the Albany area still in use is located at Port Albany.
D & H 7312 sits with several CP units at Port Albany.
A view from the CP dome car of the two Alco units on the Adirondack.