This is the spot where the two NY State Guardsmen were killed in the First World War.
They were walking on the track and hit by a NY Central M&E Train and died instantly
Shown above is an overhead view of the New York Central Railroad bridge over East Creek. The location is on the New York Central Mohawk Division between Little Falls and Amsterdam.
Then Google Maps had an actual picture of the bridge
We found a “street view” of the bridge view” of the bridge from the parallel State Route 5. The railroad bridge looks to be a two truss bridge. It would have carried four sets of tracks in 1917 (only 2 now).
We had an inquiry from the New York Guard concerning this incident. The New York Guard is compiling its history and requested our help.
Elsewhere, the New York Guard had a First Provisional Regiment guarding the aqueduct to NYC, one man was struck by a train and lost his legs and died. That was down near NY City. The Second Provisional Regiment guarded the Erie Canal, bridges, Niagara power houses and munition plants all upstate. These were the State active duty part of a NY Guard reserve force statewide of 15,000 during WWI replacing the National Guard when it was activated.
The New York Guard has the complete history of the First but nearly nothing on the Second and they are trying to piece things together from news articles, etc.
Of course, that was just WWI. The NYG was again organized in WWII, and finally stayed in place starting in the 1950s.
There was also have a train incident on a bridge 9 miles east of Elmira, and a sniper incident on that same bridge.
The New York Guard is the State Defense Force of New York State. The New York State Guard is one of the largest and best organized State Guards in the United States and is historically derived from Revolutionary and Civil War era State military units that were reorganized several times in American history in response to various international and domestic crises.
Organized under the Military Law, State of New York, the New York Guard cannot be federalized and cannot be deployed outside New York State without the consent of the governor.
Members of the New York Guard are entitled to many of the benefits accorded members of other components of the ‘Organized Militia of the State of New York,’ the legal collective term describing the New York Army and Air National Guards, New York Naval Militia and New York Guard. These include ‘military leave’ for employees of state or local governments and many private employers.
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