Robert McCue 128 pages softcover
For over 130 years, the Erie
Railroad's Newburgh branch was a key factor in the economic and social
life of the city of Newburgh, New York, and the towns that had stations
along its 19-mile route between Newburgh and the Erie main line. Only
five miles of this once vital rail link survive today. Looking at this
lightly used rail spur today, the casual passerby would have no hint of
the rich history that can be seen for only a moment from the car window.
Erie Railroad's Newburgh Branch will take both dedicated and new
railfans back to the days when rail travel was every town's modern mode
of transport as well as its economic lifeblood. It was a simpler time,
before the age of air travel and America's love affair with a new
invention called the automobile.
