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History of the Troy & Schenectady Railroad. The American Locomotive Company. Green Island. The Troy Union Railroad. The American Museum of Electricity. Sandbank Yard.

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The Central New England Railway (CNE) was a railroad across northern Connecticut and west across the Hudson River in New York. The station is still standing and is being restored. Details of this railroad in the area of Hopewell Junction, New York. It eventually became part of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route (an alliance between railroads for a passenger route from Washington to Boston) and later a line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

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Over the last 50 years, railroads have changed a lot. Now they are about to change again. Hey! Back to the Future. But they aren't your grandfather's railroad anymore.

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Benjamin Franklin quotes. Founding father. Great American. Quotes.

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Teddy Roosevelt in his own words. Other than Abe maybe the Other than Abe maybe the best Republician President. Speeks of America, being in the Arena, Women's rights, Children, Conservation, Criticism,being President, mankind, Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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ALCO goes to War. New Haven RR goes to War. Great slide show of troop train from Texas to New York Harbor. Camp trains and ammunition trains plus Freedom Train. Governors Island Railroad. The first war in which trains were used to carry Americans to battle was the Mexican War in 1846. The Rexall Train and engineer Bert Daniels

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The Central New England Railway (CNE) came from northern Connecticut and west across the Hudson River in New York to Maybrook. It crossed the great bridge at Poughkeepsie. It later became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. In the past few years our tours have covered almost all of the old CNE except for the Springfield branch. For 2010 we plan to go back to the east end and start over. The tentative plan is to tour the area between Hartford and Collinsville and include most of the Springfield branch.

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Snow jets, rotary plows and ice breakers. Dewitt Yard snow stories. Snow belt in New York State. Clearing snow on the Long Island RR. See some historic photographs of the railroads in snow. Rotary plows operating in snow! Great stories of railroad action in Winter!

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All about the Boston & Maine railroad. Where it went; when it was built; what happened to it. Into the 1980's, it was over 1400 miles long and operated in six states. Its main line went from South Portland, Maine, through the famous Hoosac Tunnel, to Rotterdam Junction, New York.

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Most railroad passengers today are commuters. Taxpayers underwrite part of this cost and the ride is now more comfortable and the future more secure than ever before. Many ideas have been brought up over the years to ease commuting problems from New Jersey. One of the most interesting was a 1935 proposal by L.Alfred Jenny which consisted of a modern electrified railroad connecting the various New Jersey railroads and bringing these lines into a new passenger terminal in mid-Manhattan. Public Support of Private Railroads. The greatest economic factor of the 19th Century was the railroads. Public money helped them then and it could help them now.A real story for this era is how General Motors, Ford and Chrysler reshaped American ground transportation to serve their corporate wants instead of social needs.