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When ordering from the US, parcels may be subject to import tax and duty charges, which the buyer is responsible to pay. RailroadSwitching Terminal at
Maybrook, New York
Gateway to the East
byMarc Newman with the Maybrook Railroad Historical Society This is a NEWBOOK (not used).
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Order before3:00 pm (ET) for same-day postal mailing.Therailroad switching terminal is the “heartbeat” of the railsystem and Maybrook in Orange County was a key link in moving goodsto and from New England.
Therailroad switching terminal at Maybrook, 1910-1974, was the largestrailroad terminal in the East. The huge enterprise employed as manyas 1,500 workers. Tools, equipment, occupations, buildings, railcars and layout of the railyard are the focus of this book.
TheCentralNew England Railway Companytook control of the rail line that had been controlled by thePhiladelphia,Reading & New England Railroadand established a small terminal at Orange Junction (Maybrook).
Theterminal consisted of a few tracks for the westbound trains and a fewtracks for the eastbound trains with a small roundhouse to serviceand repair train engines. Central New England constructed a two-storyadministration building and made living quarters available for itspermanent workers.Manyrailroads made use of the Maybrook Switching Terminal, including theNewYork, New Haven & Hartford, the Ontario & Western, the NewYork Central, the Erie (Erie Lackawanna), the Lehigh & NewEngland, and the Lehigh &Hudson.
The Lehigh & Hudson Railroad was an important freightservice for traffic to and from New England. By 1882, the Lehigh &Hudson River Railway Company and the Warwick Valley Railroad Companyhad merged to form the Lehigh & Hudson Railway Company.
TheLehigh & New England Railroad organized the Orange CountyRailroad Company in the late 1880s. That company shipped services andgoods such as anthracite and bituminous coal, farm perishables, iron,steel, and petroleum, especially from Easton, Pennsylvania, toMaybrook. Before the mid-1890s, the Lehigh & New England Railroadwas the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Boston Railroad.
Bythe late 1890s, the newly created Lehigh & New England laid trackfrom New Jersey to Campbell Hall, which connected to the ErieRailroad tracks. After the completion of the Poughkeepsie Bridge, theLehigh & New England delivered coal and steel from Allentown andBethlehem, Pennsylvania, through the Maybrook yard.
Beforethe 1950s, the Lehigh & New England Railroad had converted itsengines from coal to diesel. During the height of its operation, thecompany freighted services through portions of northern New Jersey,crossing the Delaware River at the bridge between Portland,Pennsylvania, and Columbia, New Jersey.
Through a series ofinterchanges with the Lackawanna and the New York, Susquehanna &Western, the Lehigh & New England was able to make use of theMaybrook yard.
Unlike many other railroads, the Lehigh &New England used the Maybrook terminal exclusively for freightservice and had no passenger service. In the late 1950s, the Lehigh &New England Railroad Company downsized its operations. By 1961, thecompany had closed. Parts of the line were sold to other railroads,and the New Jersey Central Company and Conrail used other portions ofit.
Includedare more than 100 photos, which follow the path of rail cars into theyards, and show how they were repaired and classified.
Softbound,8.5×11, 90 pages, 100+ photos, track plans.
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