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John Adams quotes. Second US President, First Vice President, Founding Father.

A collection of articles about Railroads. Included is: Little Falls & Dolgeville RR; NY Central Snow Book; mail and express on the New York Central; Detroit Terminal Railway; Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad. Mail and Express (M&E) trains on the New York Central. 1964 World's Fair and the New York Central Railroad.

In 1861, the Potsdam & Watertown Railroad line merged into the Watertown&Rome, the name of the new railroad was changed to Rome, Watertown&Ogdensburg, and a 19-mile line built from DeKalb Junction to Ogdensburg. Once it was important; now it is gone.

The New York & Northern was part of a Bronx to Boston route with the New York & New England Railroad via Danbury and Hartford. Financial failure forced the line to be leased to the New York Central in 1895. It became the Putnam Division. A connection was made at 155th Street with the 9th Ave. EL (which ran to downtown Manhattan). In 1913, it was formally merged into the New York Central. As the Putnam Division, its backwoods nature and the Bronx transfer never allowed it to grow like the Harlem and Hudson Divisions. The Putnam Division (sort of inappropriately named because most of its trackage was in Westchester County) was a rural railroad almost on top of New York City. The Saw Mill River valley is a beautiful rural retreat and also important as a watershed to the city.

Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of GM is famous as a major US locomotive builder since the 1940's. Except for 2 demonstrators DH1 & DH2, the only real commercial small locomotive venture was the Model 40, introduced in 1940. Also we cover many other interesting "critters". We have a section on ALCO - The American Locomotive Company.

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