I used to poke around the Colonie Yard often, as I was my job to take the tractor and 48' flatbed trailer over to the rail yard and unload all the cars, then haul it back to the yard, there was always time to explore, the buildings were massive, I believe most is torn down, so are most of the other yards in the area, there was one in Mechanicville too. They had a loco engine out and that sure was big to see it by itself, dark cavernous old building, used to be a lot of old rail cars staged there, I did see one steam loco there, some old passenger cars idle for years. There used to be a crew that would take all the lumber dunnage, all nice spruce, I would stack it and park the forklift on the pile and clamp it down with the forks, had my own use for that!
I've seen those 16" cannon, I would NOT want to be on the receiving end of one of those projectiles, the range was incredible, not sure how many miles. I have seen a photo of a large cannon on a rail car that came down the old Burlington line, that merged with the Boston & Main and NY Central in Troy, N.Y. it was headed across the old Green Island bridge, when it was just rail traffic, some time in the 1800's, was a huge piece, must have been going there for machining.
I recall the steel mill across from the D&H yard, when I delivered there, you had best be real careful in there, the hot ingots were always staged in the yard, you ever sat on one of those OUCH, the heat coming off them was intense. The maroon smoke and the rest of that place was something I was real careful around, looked like a really dangerous line of work to be involved in!
We still have Watervliet, also Picatinny, which I remember hauling nearby the control fence when I worked in NJ years back, and I believe Rock Island is still going strong too. Watervliet was waning after is heyday's but has been doing well for some time. Its too bad the Springfield Armory went to the wayside in the late 60's, a local gun dealer here worked on the closure, he's up there now too, s Korean war veteran.
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