The N.Y. Central Elevates Its Tracks Under Municipal Pressure (Rochester History, January, 1971, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1) [New York]

24 pp. Here is an episode in the relations between a nineteenth century American city and a railroad monopoly that dominated its economy. The setting is Rochester, New York, in the late 1870s. The railroad, which carried the bulk of Rochester's freight and passengers, and on whose service the businessmen and merchants of the city depended, was the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.