The Victorian Ghost Lady on The Railroad Tracks
It was 1994 and it was a strange summer. I had just graduated high school and was bored. This was before I had a computer, Internet, etc. I was headed off to college in August but in the meantime, a long summer loomed before me.
One day, my friend Tim and I were hanging out. Tim knew all the cool places to hang out and explore. Then he told me of haunted railroad tracks, that pass through the town of Green Island.
I was intrigued. The Green Island/Watervliet is a very old area and started as a Shaker settlement in 1776.
I had only lived there a year, as my family moved around a lot after my parent’s divorce. I was bored and it sounded fun.
The abandoned line originally ran from Schenectady to Green Island, NY. This abandoned railway line ran from Schenectady behind the Alco Plant Site and generally followed the Mohawk River. It went through Aqueduct, Niskayuna, Crescent, Cohoes and then crossed the Hudson River to hit the NYC line on the east side of the river at Green Island. The line was abandoned in the 1970s and early 1980s. Much of it has been converted into a trail.
