Depot Square Publishing

Depot Square Publishing, softcover, 160 pages, 11.5 x 8.5 x.5 in., 270 color and B&W illustrations and other ephemera; bibliography; index.

Vintage B&W photographs through contemporary color serve to illustrate the evolution of a selected railroad from the golden age of steam to the modern age of streamlined diesels and electrics. Having observed its twentieth anniversary in 2003, the Metro-North Railroad is a fitting choice to initiate this series (Railroads Over Time).

This installment depicts the Hudson Line between Poughkeepsie and Oscawana, New York which includes some of the most spectacular scenery in the Hudson River Valley. Illustrations begin with the Hudson River Rail Road and continue through the New York Central, Penn Central, Conrail and Metro-North.

Early steam, E-units, FL-9s, F-10s, Geeps, B23-7s, U-boats, RDCs, SPV-2000s and Genesis engines are all shown.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Hudson Line Chronology
• Map of the Hudson Valley (color)
• Poughkeepsie
• Camelot
• New Hamburg
• Chelsea
• Beacon
• Bannermans Island
• Storm King
• Cold Spring
• Garrison Cliffs
• Garrison
• Glen Clyffe
• Manitou
• Anthony's Nose
• Middle Tunnel
• Flat Rock Tunnel
• Fish Island
• Road Hook
• Annsville Creek
• Peekskill Bay
• Peekskill
• Travis Point
• Montrose
• Cortland
• Crugers
• Oscawana
• Bibliography
• Index
• Down The Tracks..

Depot Square Publishing, hardcover with dust jacket, 238 pages, 11.25 x 8.75 x.5 in., 523 illustrations (over 200 in color), maps, blueprints, bibliography, and a complete index.

The earliest explorers and settlers in central New York first used ancient Indian trails to enter the region. Over time, primitive dirt roads, plank roads, and turnpikes in combination with the navigable portions of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries greatly aided expansion into the lands southwest of Albany.

Eventually, the broad gauge Albany & Susquehanna Railroad - a predecessor of the powerful, renowned Delaware & Hudson Railroad - formed what would be regarded as the ultimate link in the transportation system that connected Albany with Binghamton.

Besides accelerating community growth, the railroad spurred the development and facilitated the growth of local industry - limestone and cement, dairy and agriculture, and the manufacturing of tools, wagons, wood products, and machinery.

In his inimitable style, Mr. Taibi engages the reader on a point-to-point tour, weaving an entertaining story around how these three phases of passage - the Roads, Rivers, and Rails - created lifelines for the interior towns.

This book contains more than 500 color, sepia, and black & white illustrations - from vintage stereo views of A&S/D&H operations to Electric Locomotive Color photographs of current owner Canadian Pacific Rail with Norfolk Southern operations via trackage rights.

Early D&H steam and the most modern diesels - AC4400CW, SD60, SD90, ES44AC, C40-9W, and ES40DC - are shown at various locations. Union Pacific run-through power is also included. Among those places visited in this first installment of Roads, Rivers, and Rails, are Voorheesville, Altamont, Delanson, Cobleskill, Richmondville, Worcester, Schenevus, and Oneonta.

Volume II will begin the story anew at Oneonta and continue on to Otego, Unadilla, Sidney, Bainbridge, Afton, and Nineveh - concluding at the 'Parlor City,' Binghamton.

Contents:

• Two Routes to Quaker Street, pp. 1–32
• Down and Up to Cave Country, pp. 33–66
• Over the Hill to Dante, pp. 67–106
• Chief Schenevus and his Creek, pp. 107–164
• City of the Hills, pp. 165–204
• Coming Attractions, pp. 205–207
• Bibliography, p. 208
• Index, pp. 209–212.

The Rutland & Burlington Railroad completed its mainline from Burlington to Rutland and Bellows Falls, Vermont in December 1849, connecting Boston with the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain thereby opening the Great Lakes and the burgeoning western markets to New England commerce. Thus began the fabled and much-loved Rutland Railroad.

This 128-page hardcover with dust jacket takes the reader back to the pre-1925 era when steam was king. Local mills produced typical Vermont goods: woolens, textiles, limestone, talc, soapstone, marble, milk, lumber, wood products, leather goods, and paper. Small towns like East Wallingford, Ludlow, Proctorsville, Cavendish and Chester depended on the Rutland for their very existence.

Experience a point-to-point journey over the Green Mountains from Rutland to Bellows Falls through more than 200 vintage illustrations, maps, ephemera, and Victorian advertising featuring stations, industries, hotels, and small town 'main streets' in the Golden Age of Steam. Information is included on connecting lines such as the Cheshire, Sullivan, Vermont Valley and other regional railroads.

This title is printed at 200 line screen on 80# gloss enamel paper in a landscape format. Depot Square Publishing, hardcover with dust jacket, 128 pages, 215 illustrations, maps, Bibliography, Index.

Depot Square Publishing, hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages, 11 x 8.5 x.5 in., 236 illustrations; maps; bibliography; index.

n 1869, the Lackawanna Railroad leased and then gained control of two predecessor roads that it would ultimately work to unite as its Syracuse Division. These railways had been the first to link the growing inland cities of Syracuse, Cortland, and Binghamton with the Lake Ontario port of Oswego.

In addition to providing an outlet for the regions bounty, the acquisitions were groomed to haul Lackawanna Scranton Coal to the shore of the Great Lakes. Through their presentation of 239 photographs and vintage ephemera, period maps, and an insightful account of local history, the authors take the reader beyond the depot and onto the main streets and side streets to revisit life and travel as they were in the early Twentieth Century America.

This book covers the era between 1875 and 1925.

Contents:

• The Syracuse Division: A Regional History, pp. 1–5
• Binghamton & Oswego Line, pp. 6–90
• Cincinnatus Branch, pp. 91–122
• Postscript, pp. 123–134
• Bibliography, pp. 135–136
• Index, pp. 137–142
• Down The Tracks.., pp. 143–144.