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Cape Cod Railroads including Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket by Robert Farsom
Cape Cod Railroads including Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket by Robert Farsom
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1990 FIRST edition
320 pages
This book takes a long and loving look at that special place - Cape Cod - and the railroads that removed its rural, seaside isolation and brought the summer visitors that flocked to its towns, woods and beaches with their wind-swept dunes. Cape Cod is "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts." It is old country, explored first in 1602. The author, Robert Farson, a master story teller, traces the railroad from town to town from 1848 until today. Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket had railroads and they are here with the island steamers. In the warm weather months people came to enjoy New England's great asset - the sea, and they came on the world's most famous overnight boats of the Fall River Line. The rest of the trip was by train to the Cape and that is a major chapter. The direct trains from Manhattan, the Cape Codders and the Neptune, the Friday night Happy Train, the Dude Train for the rich and the legendary P'town Local run through these pages fueled by dozens of anecdotes. The more than 300 illustrations include locomotives, trains, stations, bridges, wrecks, snow and storm damage, maps, railroad workers and broadsides. For those who lived on this enchanted part of America the railroad carried them from town to town and north to Boston. The tracks were a path to the rest of America, stretching to faraway places and other horizons. This is a fascinating story, filled with anecdotes, that was 13 years in the researching and writing.
Contents
The Early Days1
Early Locomotives 26
Provincetown Extension 40
Old Colony Railroad 45
Kneeland Street Station 75
Dude Train77
The Fall River Line to Cape Cod 82
The Chatham Railroad 100
Martha's Vineyard Railroad 111
Nantucket Railroad 123
The Stations 138
Along The Railroad
Cape Waterviews 172
Keith Car 173
1935 Canal Bridge 179
Camp Station 181
Railroad Avenues 182
Jenny Lind Tower 185
Structures 188
The Roadbed on Cape Cod 188
Buzzards Bay Before the Canal 190
The Railroad and the Canal 192
Construction Railroad 201
Snow and Other Storms 205
The Portland Storm209
Hurricane of 1938 214
New York, New Haven & Hartford 221
New Haven Passenger Cars and Traffic 239
New Haven Steam Locomotives 251
New York To The Cape By Train 258
Ben Crouch's Odyssey263
Penn Central 266
Conrail and Bay Colony 270
Cape Cod & Hyannis 276
Railroad People
In Truro 279
John Herman Walsh 285
Robert C. Neal288
Gerald Otto Cash 292
The P'town Local 296
Old Colony Notes from Newspapers300
New Haven Railroad Cape Cod Notes from Newspapers 303
Bibliography 313
Old Colony Map 319
New Haven Map 320
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