It's just before sunset on January 18, 2018. New York, Susquehanna & Western's UT-1, with No. 3040 up front, is northbound on Utica, NY's Schuyler Street. It is 22 degrees and snowing. No. 3040 is bringing four covered hoppers back to the Utica Yard from Sangerfield, 23 miles to the south. Near the end of its run down Schuyler, UT-1 stops for a few moments as the crew wait for a motorist to move his car.



Comment on history of cowboys escorting trains though streets

The city of NY did away with all street level trains in 1941 because so many people were killed by freight trains rolling about walking speed with bells ringing etc., even when the railroad hired cowboys on horseback to ride ahead of the engines waving a large red flag and shouting, the space cadets would STILL wind up under the wheels!!!
10th Ave where a track was, was nicknamed "Death Avenue"

The big push came to ban the trains after a kid playing some game with friends climbed on a moving train and fell under the wheels and was ground into hamburger, the last cowboy on horseback leading the train run on 10th Ave was George Hayde on 3-29-1941 with his horse "Cyclone" and the tracks were removed.

http://www.thehighline.o...-history-of-death-avenue

A video of a train rolling down the avenue with a cowboy in front appears here http://www.livinthehighl...e-original-urban-cowboy/