CSX Transportation finished its railway maintenance for the season last week. This line runs from the south to the north through New Scotland and Guilderland. Starting in Selkirk, the track enters New Scotland in Feura Bush, crosses over Delaware Avenue in Unionville and into the hamlet of New Scotland, then travels through Voorheesville and into Guilderland.

The railway company, which after a series of mergers was named in 1980 to CSX (Chessie, Seaboard and many times more), came through town this fall, taking off old railroad ties and putting in new ones, having to temporarily close some crossings to car traffic, including at Game Farm Road and New Scotland South Road.

Putting down new ties on the tracks is part of routine maintenance; the wooden ties have to be replaced every seven to eight years, said Maurice O’Connell, spokesman for CSX. He said replacing the ties does not make it possible for trains to travel faster as rumored, they are replaced for safety reasons. The wooden ties would eventually rot.

O’Connell said that CSX started working on this Chicago line in the summer, and finished this season’s tying on Grey Road in Altamont, last week.