TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON THE ND&C - A HISTORY OF THE NEWBURGH, DUTCHESS & CONNECTICUT RAILROAD by Rudberg, Bernard L. (signed by the author) - 2002

Fleischmanns NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2002. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Fine. 12000 PB shelf. Unread. Oversized trade paperback, pictorial purple covers. No names, clean text. Author's neat autograph on title pg. With maps, b/w photos, index. Giftworthy!

New York, USA: Purple Mounrain Press, 2002. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 207 pages b/w photos - The earliest railroads in Dutchess County were the north-south routes that served New York City, Albany, and Montreal. These routes were relatively stable and successful. With that success as an incentive, an east-west railroad was chartered and built. The first eight years of east-west railroad operations in Dutchess County saw turmoil, conflict, and multiple financial failures. The railroad tracks that ran from Dutchess Junction and Matteawan (Beacon) through Hopewell and Millbrook to Millerton and to Connecticut at State Line had several different names in their first few years of existence. Out of that chaos grew the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad, the subject of a new book by Bernard Rudberg of Wappingers Falls published by Purple Mountain Press of Fleischmanns, NY. The ND&C Railroad under the leadership of John Schultze and Charles Kimball established an operation… Read More