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Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century 1828-1899 w/DJ
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century by Thomas Taber
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket.
Copyright 1977.
412 pages. Indexed.
Book #1348
CONTENTS
Prologue
Part I
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Chapter ISummation
Chapter IIA Trip to Buffalo on the D. L. & W. in 1891
Part II
The History of Each Member of the "Family" of Railroads
Chapter IIIThe Precursor: The Morris Canal
Chapter IVMorris and Essex Railroad, 1835-1868
Chapter VMorris and Essex Division, 1869-1899
Chapter VIConnecting Lines to the Morris and Essex
Newark and Bloomfield Railroad Passaic and Delaware Railroad
Chester Railroad Sussex Railroad
Chapter VIIPredecessor Companies that Formed the
"Main Line", 1832-1853
Liggetts Gap Railroad
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Delaware and Cobbs Gap Railroad
Chapter VIIIThe "Main Line", 1853-1899
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Warren Railroad
Chapter IXConnecting Lines to the "Main Line"
Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Lackawanna and Montrose Railroad
Chapter XMoses Taylor Hospital
Chapter XIThe Ithaca, Syracuse, Oswego, and Utica Divisions
Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Oswego and Syracuse Railroad
Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Rail Utica, Chenango, and Susquehanna Valley Railroad
Chapter XIINew York, Lackawanna, and Western
Railroad - The Buffalo Division
Chapter XIIIHarlem Transfer Company
Chapter XIVAn Ending and a Beginning
Part III
The Locomotive History
Chapter XVSynopsis
Chapter XVILocomotives of the Morris and Essex
Chapter XVIILocomotives of the "Main Line"
Chapter XVIIILocomotives of the Buffalo Division
Chapter XIXLocomotives of the Branches
Sussex Railroad
Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Utica, Chenango, and Susquehanna Valley Railroad
Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad Oswego and Syracuse Railroad
Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad
Appendices of Miscellaneous Locomotive Data Acknowledgements
THE BOOK
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western was not one of America's "BIG" railroads, as it only stretched four hundred miles from New York City to Buffalo, on Lake Erie. However, it was never in bankruptcy; was free of scandal ; was well run ; and during much of its corporate existence was profitable. Its greatness was in the hearts of men - those who made and ran the railroad; those who faithfully patronized it; and its unseen army of admirers. Generations of loyal commuters sang its praises, and the friendship between the train crews and their daily passengers was one of the Lackawanna's valuable and unique assets.
Because there never was - and never will be again - a railroad like it, its life story must be chronicled so that future generations may know of it. This volume covers approximately the first half of the corporate life span of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad - up to the end of an era - the close of the nineteenth century. It was a very different railroad in the twentieth century. The D. L. & W. was created in 1853 as the result of an end-to-end merger of two predecessor railroads. Its corporate entity was ended by the side-by-side merger in 1960. This book includes the history of each of the railroads which, during the nineteenth century became a part of the D. L. & W. "Family of Railroads".
Also included is a description and geneology of the locomotives used on these railroads, and their disposition in the reorganization of the motive power department in 1899. Although the Lackawanna always had, and still has, a host of admirers, today few are alive who knew the railroad in the nineteenth century. It is the purpose of this work to convey a picture of the railroad and its growth in the nineteenth century to serve as background for its tremendous development and accomplishments in the twentieth century, which are known to far more friends of the Lackawanna.
THE AUTHOR
To do a technical subject justice requires the author not only to have known, but to have lived it. It must be a part of him, and that is what qualifies this author on this subject. There is probably no one alive today who knows as much about the history and operations of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad as did Thomas Townsend Taber of Madison, New Jersey. When he was twelve years old - sixty five years ago - he started learning about the Lackawanna Railroad, its fine men and magnificent locomotives, at Montclair, New Jersey. This was the end of one of its branch lines, where the locomotives were turned for the return trip to Hoboken. Without exception, the engineers and firemen were kind to a small boy who obviously was devoted to the panting "Iron Horses", and wanted to learn all he could about them. The little money he could earn was spent on films for his Brownie box camera to take photos of the engines, and he soon became an avid collector of any material pertaining to the Lackawanna. The collecting never ceased, and Tom Taber accumulated the greatest collection of Lackawanna memorabilia in existence.
Old Engineer Bob Taylor was particularly nice to the small boy, who one day asked him, "What can I do for you, Mr. Taylor, because you have been so good to me?" He smiled, and replied, "Nothing I can think of now." However, a few days later he said, "Tom, I've been thinking about what you asked me. There is something you can do. Your life is ahead of you, and you love these engines. When you grow up, write the story of our railroad, of us, and our locomotives. Then, we'll live on long after we have passed away." The small boy never forgot, and now the white haired man is paying a debt to all of the wonderful Lackawanna men who were always so nice to small boys!
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