Roads, Rivers & Rails, The Delaware & Hudson's Susquehanna Division, Vol. 1

Description

The earliest explorers and settlers in central New York first used ancient Indian trails to enter the region. Over time, primitive dirt roads, plank roads, and turnpikes in combination with the navigable portions of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries greatly aided expansion into the lands southwest of Albany. Eventually the broad gauge Albany & Susquehanna Railroad - a predecessor of the powerful, renowned Delaware & Hudson Railroad - formed what would be regarded as the ultimate link in the transportation system that connected Albany with Binghamton. Besides accelerating community growth, the railroad spurred the development and facilitated the expansion of local industry - limestone and cement, dairy and agriculture, and the manufacturing of tools, wagons, wood products, and machinery. In his inimitable style, author John Taibi engages the reader on a point-to-point tour, weaving an entertaining story around how these phases of passage created lifelines for the interior towns.
This book contains more than 500 color, sepia, and b&w illustrations from vintage stereoviews of the A&S/D&H operations to 2011 color photographs of current owner Canadian Pacific Rail with Norfolk Southern operations via trackage rights. Early D&H steam and the most modern diesels - AC4400CW, SD60, SD90, ES44AC. C40-9W and ES40DC - are shown at various locations such as Albany, Voorheesville, Altamont, Delanson, Cobleskill, Richmondville, Worcester, Schenevus, and Oneonta.
238 pages, 523 illustrations (over 200 in color), maps, blueprints, and ephemera. Printed in America on 80# gloss paper in an oblong laminated hardcover format with an additional gloss film lamination. Published by Depot Square Publishing.
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