The Ulster and Delaware Railroad Through the Catskills By Gerald Best DJ book
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This is a book out of a large Railroad collection I bought, it is used in good condition, it is a hardcover with the paper jacket (the jacket has some wear on the edges) If any questions please email. This item has FREE shipping.The Ulster and Delaware Railroad Through the Catskills By Gerald Best DJThe Ulster and Delaware Railroad Through the Catskills By Gerald Best Dust Jacket 1972 210 pages Indexed WITH MORE THAN 320 ILLUSTRATIONS, Maps-Timetables-Documentary Reproductions--Rosters of Motive Power-Scale Locomotive Drawings The Catskill Mountains, located on the west side of the Hudson River in New York State, had long been a barrier to trade between the rich farmlands west of the mountains and the river ports east of them. Thomas Cornell, a crafty Hudson River towboat entrepreneur, envisioned a railroad cutting through the heart of the Catskills to tap this traffic, forming a major connection with a north-south trunk line railroad. The story of the Ulster & Delaware Railroad began in 1866 when Cornell's Rondout & Oswego Railroad was chartered. Construction west from the port of Rondout was difficult and before long the fighting among backers resulted in Cornell's withdrawal from the project. After the railroad had gone through two receiverships, he resumed control of the line which reached Stamford in 1872. Cornell formed the
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