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Timothy Starr
Railroading in New York’s Capital District: Hot Off The Presses!
Railroading in New York’s Capital District: Hot Off The Presses!
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“Railroading in New York’s Capital District: Hot Off The Presses!” provides a unique view of railroad life in the Capital Region from the day the state’s first railroad went into operation until the decline of the industry in the mid-1920s.
New York’s Capital District has a long and storied history of railroading beginning in 1826, when the first railroad in the state was chartered to run from Albany to Schenectady. Accompanying that long history are thousands of newsworthy incidents: labor strikes that tied up traffic for weeks, crimes that kept company detectives and local police busy, accidents that plagued trainmen and passengers alike, and blizzards that buried the tracks for days. The book contains over two hundred of the region’s most compelling news stories culled from the author’s vast collection. Chapter titles include “Mother Nature Strikes,” “Crime on the Rails,” “Accidents and Injuries,” and “Strange Tales of the Rails.”
“Hot Off The Presses” relates the saga of the railroads “as it happened,” transporting the reader to a time and place that can only be visited by reading the original articles as they were presented during the heyday of railroad transportation in America.
Total length: 90,000 words.
New York’s Capital District has a long and storied history of railroading beginning in 1826, when the first railroad in the state was chartered to run from Albany to Schenectady. Accompanying that long history are thousands of newsworthy incidents: labor strikes that tied up traffic for weeks, crimes that kept company detectives and local police busy, accidents that plagued trainmen and passengers alike, and blizzards that buried the tracks for days. The book contains over two hundred of the region’s most compelling news stories culled from the author’s vast collection. Chapter titles include “Mother Nature Strikes,” “Crime on the Rails,” “Accidents and Injuries,” and “Strange Tales of the Rails.”
“Hot Off The Presses” relates the saga of the railroads “as it happened,” transporting the reader to a time and place that can only be visited by reading the original articles as they were presented during the heyday of railroad transportation in America.
Total length: 90,000 words.
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