Story and Photos by Marc Glucksman/River Rail Photo

On Friday, January 17, 2025, the Delaware & Hudson Railway Historical Society announced the acquisition of former D&H Alco RS-3 4085, and that it would be moved to the Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Railway and restored to operating condition.

This locomotive changed hands after D&H and was later operated by the New York & Greenwood Lake Railway in Passaic, N.J., in the 1990s. After the NYGL ceased regular operations, it was relocated to the yard in Port Jervis, N.Y., where it remained for many years before being moved and completing its final leg of the journey from Saratoga Springs to Corinth, New York, on Monday, April 28, 2025. While the paint scheme decision has not yet been made, several are under consideration for its restoration. The SCH maintains two operating RS3s, SCHX/former DH 4103 and 4118, that were used for this move. The power traveled the length of the southern end of the former Delaware & Hudson Adirondack Branch that is under SCH control from Corinth to just before CPC 38 in Saratoga Springs where the unit had been dropped off by CPKC local G48.  

New York & Greenwood Lake 935 (formally D&H 4085) is seen in Suffern, N.Y., in 1995. The locomotive would occasionally be used by NY&GL until it ceased operations in the 2010s. 

CPKC local G48 picks up SCHX 4085 at the engine house in Saratoga Springs on April 28. 

The three former D&H RS-3s cross the former D&H Bridge at West Mountain Road in Corinth, N.Y., on April 28. 

Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Owner Hal Raven suggests a possible paint scheme….no decisions have been made yet.