The Long Island Railroad: 1925-1975 (Images of Rail) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Long Island Railroad Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jamaica, New York. The railroad has linked Long Island and New York City through several periods of increasing immigration and population beginning in the 1880s. Farmers and fishermen have depended on the railroad for their livelihood, and every summer thou...
Full description- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
- Published: 30 September 2004
- Format: Paperback 128 pages
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- Categories: History Of The Americas | Trains & Railways
- ISBN 13: 9780738536378 ISBN 10: 0738536377
- Sales rank: 698,992
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Full description for The Long Island Railroad
Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jamaica, New York. The railroad has linked Long Island and New York City through several periods of increasing immigration and population beginning in the 1880s. Farmers and fishermen have depended on the railroad for their livelihood, and every summer thousands of tourists flock to Long Island beaches on the Long Island Rail Road. It is still the nation's largest commuter railroad, transporting an average of over two hundred fifty thousand commuters daily. The Long Island Rail Road: 1925-1975 offers a behind-the-scenes look at freight and passenger activities and the people who worked on the railroad. These one-of-a-kind photographs depict structures no longer in use, such as towers, water tanks, and crossing shanties, as well as electric motive power and other facets of a working railroad.
