High Street Station

High Street Station. . , High Street Station This was the location of the High Street Station of the former Troy and Schenectady Railroad. The Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail from Schenectady to Cohoes is located in the bed of the abandoned railroad. From Cohoes the Troy and Schenectady continued south to Troy over a former Green Island Bridge. Passengers to and from Albany used the Albany Northern Railroad completed in 1853. That railroad, now the Delaware and Hudson, still passes through Cohoes, seven blocks to the east., High Street was one of the crossings of the Enlarged Erie Canal in Cohoes. Increased freight and passenger traffic on the Troy and Schenectady after the Civil War often prevented horses and wagons crossing the tracks at High Street. As a result, a bridge was constructed in 1903 and High Street was lowered to pass under the tracks. A new station was built at Younglove Avenue on the north side replacing the old depot on the south side. A passenger platform of the station can be seen at this location., Passenger service on the line decreased in the the 20th century to one train per day west in the morning and back in the afternoon. This service was primarily for the workers at the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the General Electric plants in Schenectady. Passenger service was finally discontinued in the late 1920s. The line to Schenectady was severed in the 1960s when the Northway (I-87) was built in Colonie, but freight service continued to local industries. Freight service finally ended in the 1970s and the line was later abandoned. In 1981 the right-of-way was acquired by the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation for use as a bike-hike trail. , [Photo Captions:] , Photo of High Street Station, 1904. , Younglove Avenue from Imperial Avenue, east, 1904., Map of Cohoes, Waterford, and Lansingburg, 1889.