The noted railroad author Gerald M. Best provides detailed rosters of locomotives and equipment used by the Catskill narrow gauges in his book on the Ulster & Delaware RR.

Best, who actually rode the slim gauge lines back in 1912, reported they employed 21 sets of Ramsay Transfer trucks. When the Ulster & Delaware took over the SC&CM and the affiliated Kaaterskill Ry, there were five 2-6-0's on the roster - three Dixon products and two built by Brooks.

The competing Catskill & Tannersville Ry owned four moguls, but the company never used more than two at any given time. Unlike the SC&CM and Kaaterskill, the C&T never handled standard gauge cars using Ramsay trucks. However, it did move freight cars brought up the cable incline to Otis Summit on the top of the escarpment. At an elevation of over 2,100 feet, the C&T Otis Summit station was the highest point reached by a New York State railroad.

Stony Clove & Catskill Montain Ry. passenger equipment included a baggage car, two combines, two observation cars and five coaches - all built by Jackson & Sharp. The connecting Kaaterskill Ry. owned two baggage cars, a combine and two coaches, all Jackson & Sharp products.

Equipment on the Catskill & Tannersville included a combine and a two coaches in addition to a box car and a flat. As pointed out, C&T was able to interchange freight cars with the parent Catskill Moountain Railway after they were hauled up the Otis Elevating Ry. incline on the cable.

Catskill Mountain Ry., which operated the lower level lines between the Catskill escarpment and a steamboat pier on the Hudson River at Catskill, NY owned five 4-4-0's. CM Ry.passenger equipment included four flat-roofed baggage cars, six coaches, and six open excursion cars - all Jackson & Sharp products. Unlike the freight cars, CM coaches were never used on the incline. Passengers for mountain resorts and luggage were transferred at Otis Junction for a ten minute ride in special cable cars.

While not on a Colorado scale. at the turn of the last century, it was possible to enjoy a "narrow gauge circle" through the Catskills. One could take a Hudson River steamboat from New York City to Catskill Landing. At that point you would change on the pier to a CM Ry. train for a half hour trip along Catskill Creek to the base of the incline at Otis Jct. where a connecting cable car would be waiting for the ten minute ascent to the summit. At the summit station, a two car Catskill & Tannersville train (known locally as the "Huckleberry") would be ready for the 20 minute trip to Tannsersville. There you would change to a Ulster & Delaware narrow gauge train for the run to Katterskill Jct. and thence over Stony Clove and the descent to the Esopus Creek Valley at Phoenicia. At Phoenicia. a U&D standard gauge train would take over for the trip to Kingston Point, where another direct connection could be made to Hudson River steamers for Manhattan.