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Re: (erielack) Maybrook Book

Also, Trains will be doing Maybrook as part of their "Blueprint" series 
in the January issue due out in a couple of weeks. Maybe it's a tie-in 
with the book.

Tim in Maybrook

Curtis Brookshire wrote:

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>Arcadia Publishing is planning a new book on the Maybrook Terminal.  Could have things of interest for Erie/EL fans as this was a major interchange point for New England.  Anyone know more about this?
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>Curtis Brookshire
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>      The Maybrook Switching Terminal was created in 1889 by the Central New England Railroad after the Poughkeepsie Bridge was constructed across the Hudson River. In 1912, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad created a modern switching terminal to redirect and maintain thousands of cars at one time. Maybrook was the largest railroad switching and processing rail yard east of the Mississippi. By 1974, trains were rerouted to Selkirk and Albany, New York, after the Poughkeepsie bridge fire. Maybrook Switching Terminal contains photographs from the Maybrook Railroad Historical Society and Museum collection and the private collection of former railroad employee and skilled photographer Peter McLachlan of Newtown, Connecticut. The photographs depict the workers and various buildings and shops at the terminal, as well as many of the tools used by the roadmen, yardmen, operators, and other employees of the switching terminal. The book also contains a series of photographs !
> of the interior of a railroad caboose, the sleeping and eating accommodations for the conductor, brakeman, and flagman. Marc Newman is a research historian and instructor. He is the author of Walden and Maybrook in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Maybrook Switching Terminal is a compilation of interviews with members of the Maybrook Railroad Historical Society and former employees of the rail yard. 
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>      MAYBROOK SWITCHING TERMINAL 
>            Author: MARC NEWMAN WITH THE MAYBROOK RAILROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
>            Format: TRADE PAPERBACK 
>            ISBN: 0738535346 
>            Pages: 128 
>            Series: IMAGES OF RAIL 
>            State: NY 
>            Availability: Not Yet Published
>            Due: Feb 5 2005 
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