Re: (rshsdepot) Old Colony Railroad Co.

[Seth Bramson <sbramson_@_bellsouth.net>]

The below is spectacularly great information.  Thank you.  I would also suggest,
for those who have access, Old Colony booklets, brochures and passenger and
employee timetables as being "wealths" of information.  Hope that little bit
helps, also.

Zahava Shaffer wrote:

> I can't give you any specific info on S. Hanson, but I have just completed
> major research of the Old Colony.  I suggest you look at the following:
>
> Old Colony Railroad documents in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center of the
> University of CT in Storrs, CT.  They have lots of Annual Reports and
> Valuation Maps.
>
> George Pierce Baker's "The Formation of the New England Railroad Systems:  A
> Study of Railroad Combination in the Nineteenth Century" (1968).
>
> Commission to Investigate and Study Transportation Service in Southeastern
> Mass.' "The Old Colony Railroad:  An Historically True Narrative of One of
> the Pioneer Railroad Systems in America" (1949).  The State Library has
> this.
>
> Charles Fisher, "The Story of the Old Colony Railroad" (1919).
>
> Hager & Handy "History of the Old Colony Railroad" (1893).
>
> Alvin Harlow "Steelways of New England" (1946).
>
> Hope this will help.
> Zahava
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