Unadilla Valley Railway - System Index Map

The Unadilla Valley Railway was a

shortline railroad A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are ...

company that operated in the Unadilla Valley of

upstate New York Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York (state), New York that lies north and northwest of the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, ...

from its opening in 1895 to its abandonment in 1960. From 1937 onwards, it was owned by the

H.E. Salzberg Company H.E. Salzberg Company was a scrap dealer and operator of a group of shortline railroads and bus lines throughout the eastern United States. Headquartered in New York City, the company was primarily in the business of dismantling abandoned railroads ...

. Originally only running for 19 miles between New Berlin and Bridgewater, the railroad later purchased the New Berlin Branch from the

New York, Ontario and Western Railway The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, Orange County, New York, Middletown, New York, in 1957, after whi ...

in 1941. The addition of this line extending from ''New Berlin Jct'' near Sidney to New Berlin and Edmeston more than doubled the Unadilla Valley Railway's trackage to 49 miles. The railroad purchased its first diesel locomotive from

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the year ...

in 1947, but continued running steam locomotives until 1956.

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