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Lackawanna Story The First Hundred Years of The DL&Q+W by Casey & Douglas W/ DJ
Lackawanna Story The First Hundred Years of The Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR
By Robert J. Casey & W.A.S. Douglas
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (see photos -damaged) Name written inside front cover,
Copyright 1951
223 Pages Indexed
CONTENTS
PART I: THE RAILROAD
1 King Charles's Grant3
2 The Slocums14
3 William Henry-Henry Drinker24
4 The Scrantons Bow In32
5 William Henry Takes Advice37
6 Iron into Steel41
7 Rescue of the Erie51
8 Birth of the Lackawanna60
9 The Morris and Essex69
10 Coal to Seaboard80
11 Steel Rails and Narrow Gauge90
12 Refurbishing Job100
PART II: THE MEN WHO MADE THE RAILROAD
13 The Fearless Amateurs111
14 Tumult and Shouting114
15 Better Mousetraps121
16 New Railroad128
17 Man-made Mountains137
18 The Coal Business145
19 Remarkable Achievement151
20 Man versus Trouble154
21 One More War161
PART III: LEGEND AND FACT
22 Phoebe Snow173
23 Oil Painting184
24 The Hoboken Ferry188
25 G. Washington Slept Here198
Appendix209
Index215
The publication of this absorbing railroad history marks the 100th anniversary of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, a line which has played a colorful and immensely important role in American economic and social life. Starting as a small coal -hauling line, the Lackawanna over the years extended its tracks from the seaboard to the Great Lakes and established not only a vital freight service but one of the earliest and busiest commuting services to New York City.
THE LACKAWANNA STORY begins in the eighteenth century when eastern Pennsylvania and adjacent New York and New Jersey were settled by rival claimants to the land originally granted William Penn by Charles II. The rich coal and iron discoveries in this region made railroad transportation essential, and construction of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western was begun in the 1840s and completed in April, 1851.
Part I tells the dramatic history of the railroad, the story of the men of vision-businessmen, engineers, railroad promoters, and financiers-whose courage and ability made possible the origin and growth of the Lackawanna. Part II continues the story of the men who made the railroad and directed its policies, and of its growth in recent years. In Part III the authors tell some of the human-interest stories connected with the Lackawanna-the building of the great Tunkhannock Viaduct, the mystery of the missing oil painting of a Lackawanna roundhouse by the great American artist George Inness, the history and legend of Phoebe Snow, and the interesting history of the Hoboken Ferry and of the New Jersey commuter towns served by the Lackawanna.
From the rough and ready days when trains were called by the names of the locomotives which hauled them to the swift and streamlined present, THE LACKAWANNA STORY traces the full, rich history of a great Eastern railroad, and the dynamic, colorful individuals who had a part in its making.
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