Download or read book Railroads of New York s Capital District written by Timothy Starr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's Capital District was ideally situated to become one of the nation's earliest and most important transportation crossroads. The Mohawk River was the only water level gap in the Appalachian range to the west, which led to the construction of the Erie Canal. Soon after its completion, the state's first railroad began operating between Albany and Schenectady in 1831. Other pioneer railroads followed, heading north to Canada, south to New York City, west to Chicago, and east to Boston. Over the next century, railroads like the New York Central, Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, and Delaware & Hudson built extensive passenger stations, freight and classification yards, and repair shops in the tri-city region. Passenger operations continue today at the Schenectady and Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak stations, while the Selkirk Yard is still an important classification point for CSX Transportation.

Download or read book Early Railroads of New York s Capital District written by Timothy Starr and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beginnings of the New York Central Railroad written by Frank Walker Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trolleys of the Capital District written by Gino DiCarlo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it came to first-class transportation, not many regions of North America had more to offer than the trolley lines of New Yorks Capital District. From their humble beginnings as horse roads forming belts around Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, these trolley lines helped move people around Upstate New York from the late 1800s until their final exit after World War II. The lines of the United Traction Company, Schenectady Railway, and the Hudson Valley Railway provided hundreds of miles of track around their home cities, as well as direct routes to resorts in the Adirondacks, Lake George, and Saratoga Springs. The trolley lines became famous for disasters that made national headlines, labor disputes, and engineering wonders that included the longest trolley bridge in the world. The vintage images in Trolleys of the Capital District provide insight into an era gone by and an often forgotten form of transportation.

Download or read book Annual Report on the Railroads of New York written by New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Golden Age of Railroads in New York s Capital District written by Timothy Starr and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroad Wars of New York State written by Timothy Starr and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line was chartered between Albany and Schenectady when supporters of the Erie Canal tried to block the new technology that would render their waterway obsolete. After the first primitive railroads overcame that hurdle, they began battling with one another in a series of rate wars to gain market share. Attracted by the success of the rails, the most powerful and cunning capitalists in the country--Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew and other robber barons--joined the fray. Timothy Starr's account of New York's railroad wars steams through the nineteenth century with stories of rate pools, labor strikes, stock corners, legislative bribery and treasury plundering the likes of which the world had never seen.

Download or read book Railroading in New York s Capital District written by Timothy Starr and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report on the Railroads of the State of New York written by New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Mohawk Valley Gateway to the West 1614 1925 written by Nelson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report on the Railroads of the State of New York written by New York (State). Engineer and Surveyor and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railroads of New York written by Harry Hubert Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Railroads of New York".

Download or read book The New York and New England Railroad written by Gregg M Turner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads were the first big business enterprises of America and made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together and ably transported people, materials, supplies, goods, and mail. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of railroads were built in the United States during the nineteenth century. Among the more colorful was the New York and New England Railroad, which connected Boston with the Hudson River via the uplands of Connecticut. If ever a company had its share of trials and tribulations it was this firm. Yet its fascinating, topsy-turvy past is today largely forgotten. This work brings to life how the New York and New England Railroad evolved from humble beginnings to becoming a potent transportation force. Meticulously researched with many period images and a lively text, our journey begins in the 1840s and lasts until the late 1890s. Climb aboard for a special trip into this unique chapter of American railroad history!

Download or read book Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report Upon Eleventh Avenue Franchise in the City of New York of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company written by New York (State). Public Service Commission. First District and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Street Surface Railway Franchises of New York City written by Harry James Carman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Moving the Masses written by Charles W. Cheape and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of public transit is an integral part of both business and urban history in late nineteenth-century America. The author begins this study in 1880, when public transportation in large American cities was provided by numerous, competing horse-car companies with little or no public control of operation. By 1912, when the study concludes, a monopoly in each city operated a coordinated network of electric-powered streetcars and, in the largest cities, subways, which were regulated by city and state agencies. The history of transit development reflects two dominant themes: the constant pressure of rapid growth in city population and area and the requirements of the technology developed to service that growth. The case studies here include three of the four cites that had rapid transit during this period. Each case study examines, first, the mechanization of surface lines and, second, the implementation of rapid transit. New York requires an additional chapter on steam-powered, elevated railroads, for early population growth there required rapid transit before the invention of electric technology. Urban transit enterprise is viewed within a clear and familiar pattern of evolution--the pattern of the last half of the nineteenth century, when industries with expanding markets and complex, costly processes of production and distribution adopted new strategy and structure, administered by a new class of professional managers.