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Story of the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad by Edward Hungerford HardCo
The Story of the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad by Edward Hungerford
Hard Cover
269 pages
Copyright 1922
CONTENTS
I By Way Of Introduction 1
Ii Looking Toward A Railroad 5
Iii The Coming Of The Watertown & Rome 24
Iv The Potsdam & Watertown Railroad59
V The Formation Of The R. W & O 79
Vi The R. W. & O. Prospers-And Expands 102
Vii Into The Slough Of Despond 128
Viii The Utica & Black River 143
Ix The Brisk Parsons' Regime171
X In Which Railroads Multiply 203
Xi The Coming Of The New York Central 227
Xii The End Of The Story 246
Appendix A 263
Appendix B 267
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Fleet Locomotive Antwerp Frontispiece
Orville Hungerford 31
The Cape Vincent Station 51
Early Railroad Tickets 71
Watertown in 1865 81
The Birth of the U. & B. R. 148
Hiram M. Britton 186
Snow Fighters 231
PREFACE
SOME railroads, like some men, experience many of the ups and downs of life. They have their seasons of high prosperity, as well as those of deep depression. Such a road was the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburgh. In its forty years of life it ran a full gamut of railroad existence. Alternately it was one of the best railroads in creation; and one of the worst.
The author within these pages has endeavored to put plain fact plainly. He has written without malice-if anything, he still feels within his heart a burst of warm sentiment for the old R. W. & O. -and with every effort toward absolute impartiality in setting down these events that now are History. He bespeaks for his little book, kindness, consideration, even forbearance. And looks forward to the day when again he may take up his pen in the scribbling of another narrative such as this. It has been a task. But it has been a task of real fascination.
E. H.
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