The Beginning of the New York Central Railroad: A History

xvi, 408 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine and front board. Top page ridge gilt. "Scholarly history of the steam railroads in and around the Hudson River Valley, Buffalo and the Niagara River which were consolidated into the New York Central Railroad in 1853. Includes the history of the Mohawk and Hudson, the Utica and Schenectady, the Syracuse and Utica, the Auburn and Syracuse, the Auburn and Rochester, the Rochester and Syracuse; the Tonawanda, the Attica and Buffalo, the Buffalo and Rochester, the Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls, the Buffalo and Lockport, the Schenectady and Troy, the Mohawk Valley, and the Syracuse and Utica Direct. Illustrated with black and white photos, engravings and drawings. With onionskin foldout map of the system circa 1853."