Yesterday’s timetable was mostly ads and other fluff; the timetables and equipment listings fit on just three pages (plus a half a page for a condensed timetable that was totally unnecessary). D&H apparently recognized that for by 1957 its timetable … Continue reading
The cover shown below is the back cover, while the front cover advertises that Delaware and Hudson had “the fastest train” and “the shortest route” between New York and Montreal. In fact, it had two trains in 1953, the overnight … Continue reading
The Delaware and Hudson was a bridge line, which page 10 of this timetable defines as “a railroad transporting large volumes of traffic as an intermediate carrier and acting as a connecting link or bridge between the originating and terminating … Continue reading
The Delaware & Hudson considered itself the nation’s oldest “continuously operated transportation company,” as it started in 1823 to build and operate a canal that opened in 1828. The canal was converted to a railroad in the 1860s. The railroad … Continue reading
