DELAWARE & HUDSON: the history of an important railroad

by Shaughnessy, Jim

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Berkeley, Calif.:: Howell-North,, 1968. Hardcover; dust jacket poor. Book: condition rather good.. + bibliography + index. With over 600 in-text & full-pg. photos of trains, maps, timetables, countrysides, personnel, etc. 3rd prtg. of 1967 first issue. ||| `The D&H' began in 1823 as the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, a coal mining / transporting firm. Its first locomotive, `Stourbridge Lion'--built by George Stephenson, legendary English locomotive pioneer--was the first steam locomotive in America. ||| Cornucopia of facts on D&H development; the machinations of financiers Jay Gould & `Jubilee Jim' Fisk; early & later photographs of `gravity trains,' steam locomotives, trains, yards, wrecks, routes; records of locomotives used by The D&H + smaller railroads it owned; its foray into electric-powered trolleys, etc. ||| Gold mine of information / photographs for the steam railroad devotee.