Pine Bush Area Public Library Local History Collection: Transportation
A guide to published and un-published works related to the history of Pine Bush, the Town of Crawford and the Hudson Valley Region
Railroads
- Along the Lackawanna Railroad (Volumes I and II) byCall Number: REF 974.731 Gar v.1/v.2Publication Date: 1975Two Volumes.
- Erie Railroad; a pictoral review byCall Number: REF 974.731 Gar vol. 1/ vol. 2Publication Date: 1974
- O & W : the long life and slow death of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway byCall Number: 385.09 HELISBN: 9781883789251Publication Date: 2000-06-01The Ontario & Western'the O&W, or, as both boosters and detractors referred to it in its later years, the ?Old & Weary, ? operated from 1869-1957 and ran from Oswego on Lake Ontario to New York City, passing through the midlands and southern counties of New York State, with spurs to Utica, Kingston, Port Jervis, and Scranton, PA. Filled with colorful characters and miscellaneous machinery, O. & W. chronicles almost a century of alternating hope and heartache, prosperity and poverty, dignity and degradation. Her passing was mourned for a variety of economic and sentimental reasons, but the loss was deeply felt in an intangible way. The rambling, elderly, inefficient, accident-prone, irritating old railroad was a part of a way of life now gone from the American scene.
- Listen to the Whistle: an anecdotal history of the Wallkill Valley Railroad in Ulster and Orange counties, New York byCall Number: 385.097 MABISBN: 9780935796698Publication Date: 1995-11-01
The Next Station Will Be . . .: an album of photographs of railroad depots in 1910. by Call Number: 385.097 RAI V. 11ISBN: 9780941652001Publication Date: 1982-11-01- The New York, Ontario & Western Railway's Middletown branch byCall Number: 385.314 BARPublication Date: 2005
- Bridging the Hudson: The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and It's Connecting Rail Lines byCall Number: 974.73 MOLISBN: 9781930098251Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Shipping and Canals
- The Canals of New York State byCall Number: 386.5 CANISBN: 9780933788824Publication Date: 1995-10-01
The Hudson Through the Years by Call Number: 974.73 ADAISBN: 9780823216765Publication Date: 1996-09-01Arthur G. Adams has nurtured a lifelong interest in the Hudson River and its surrounding region. He has spent much of his life exploring its highways, byways, waterways, and foot trails from the Atlantic Coastal inlets to the Catskill and Berkshire Mountain Peaks. The Hudson Through the Years chronicles the history of the Hudson River region of New York State through five centuries, from its early inhabitants: its main Native American tribes and early Dutch and English settlers, through its current day residents. Tracing the history of the region from the American Revolution to the present, Adams incorporates the spread of industrialism, infrastructure, and trasnportation with tales of the early steamboats, ferries, horseboats, the Erie, Champlain, Iron and Anthracite canals, through the development of the trolleys, railroads, and automobiles. The book also includes details about the art and architecture of the region. Included in the book are data about New York's governors, political administrations, U.S. presidents, and British sovereigns, ferry and train routes and schedules, maps and tables, and statistics for population growth over the last five centuries. Also included is a helpful selected bibliography.
