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(rshsdepot) "Albany and Her Railroads"

150 years ago today:
  ALBANY AND HER RAILROADS.--The number and
wide-spreading net-work of railways which now
surround Albany, will afford a solution to the
cause of the great increase of business within
her precincts during the last few years. We
doubt whether there is a city in the Union, unless
it be Boston, from which a larger number of rail-
way trains depart daily.  On the Hudson River
Railroad, seen trains daily. On the Al-
bany and Schenectady, eleven.  On the Boston,
four. On the Albany Northern, fourteen. On
the Harlem, three. And on the Troy and Albany,
nine. Making in all forty-six trains leaving
this city each. day.--Alb. Atlas

Brooklyn Daily Eagle  August 1, 1853

The Long Island Railroad schedule from July 1, 1853 had trains leaving
Brooklyn for Jamaica, for Greenport, for Hempstead and for Yaphank, the last
did "not stop at East New York, Cypress Avenue, Union Course, Woodville,
Canal street, Willow Tree, Brookville [not sure, hard to read], or Hyde
Park." ..where was this Canal Street???

There was also a "grand excursion" steamer leaving two North River piers for
Fort Hamilton and Coney Island. The steamer name was the Economy.



There was also an advertisement for the Catharine Ferry Omnibuses. It
meandered its way through downtown New York from the Catharine Ferry  [just
north of the later Brooklyn Bridge] to the Hudson River Railroad Company,
Thirty-First street depot.

Transportation 150 years ago.

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