Roads, Rivers and Rails - DELAWARE & HUDSON: Albany, Schenectady to Oneonta, NEW

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Roads, Rivers and Rails:
The Delaware & Hudson's Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail
Vol. 1: Albany / Schenectady to Oneonta
by John Taibi
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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 growth of local industry -- limestone and cement, dairy and agriculture, and the manufacturing of tools, wagons, wood products, and machinery. In his inimitable style, the author engages the reader on a point-to-point tour, weaving an entertaining story around how these three phases of passage -- the Roads, Rivers, and Rails -- created lifelines for the interior towns.
This book contains more than
500 color, sepia, and black & white photos and illustrations
-- from vintage stereoviews of A&S/D&H operations to 2011 color photographs of current owner
Canadian Pacific
Railway
with
Norfolk Southern
operations via trackage rights.
Early
Delaware & Hudson
steam and the most modern diesels -- AC4400CW, SD60, SD90, ES44AC, C40-9W, and ES40DC -- are shown at various locations.
Union Pacific
run-through power is also included.
Among those places visited in this first installment of Roads, Rivers, and Rails are:
Voorheesville
Altamont
Delanson
Cobleskill
Richmondville
Worcester
Schenevus
Oneonta
Contents:
Two Routes to Quaker Street
Down and Up to Cave Country
Over the Hill to Dante
Chief Schenevus and his Creek
City of the Hills
Coming Attractions
Bibliography
Index
Laminated Hardbound, 11.25x 8.75,
238 pages, 523
photos &
illustrations (over 200 in color), maps, blueprints, bibliography, and a complete index.
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