Gangly Country Cousin, The Lehigh Valley's Auburn Division by Herbert Trice SC For Sale

RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Gangly Country Cousin, The Lehigh Valley's Auburn Division by Herbert Trice SC The Gangly Country Cousin Lehigh Valleys Auburn Division by Herbert Trice Soft Cover Copyright 2004 160 PagesCONTENTS Introduction7PART ONE Four Branches a Division Make1 A `Mainline,' Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario 132 An Auburn & Ithaca Branch Emerges333 Adding an Elmira-to-Camden Route, the Elmira & Cortland Branch434 Adding a Seneca Falls Branch79PART TWO The Division Matures5 Business of the Auburn Division876 The Coal Trade957 Milk Traffic1018 Passenger Service1059 Salt, Limestone, and Ice11710 Grain and Manufactured Products12111 Vicissitudes12512 The Men Who Did the Work131PART THREE Decline and Dismemberment13 Beginning of the End13714 The Band Plays On143From the Author149Bibliography and List of Illustrations 154Index156
This is the story of how the Lehigh Valley Railroad consolidated many hastily built shortlines in upstate New York to create its Auburn Division in the late 1800s. Basically a rural railroad launched by colorful entrepreneurs, the division stood apart from the LV's mainline segments-somewhat in the role of a gangly country cousin.Traveling no less than 415 route miles in the scenic Finger Lakes region, light engines chugged along spindly single tracks, over bridges cheaply built to span glacial creeks and valleys.Business was mostly local, except a thread of Pennsylvania coal traffic. A healthy volume of farm products, particularly milk, made their way to urban markets. Passenger service, in great demand before the automobile appeared, was crude.Despite all this, the Auburn Division was a serviceable railroad until the late 193os. The arc of its growth followed that of most American railroads.One prosperous stretch of the Auburn Division remains. Before the others were abandoned, they contributed richly to the history and economy of their region, recorded here in 190 illustrations and a graceful untangling of complicated tales.
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