Hopewell Junction: A Railroader's Town: A History of Short-line Railroads in Dutchess County, New York

Reveals the life and lore of a vanished era of railroad history.

Hopewell Junction: A Railroader's Town tells the remarkable history of the east-west, short-line railroads that ran throughout Dutchess County, New York from 1869 to 1984, centering on the hamlet of Hopewell Junction. It explains how these lines transformed the rural countryside and supercharged the growth of the agricultural and small-mill communities of Dutchess County during the last half of the nineteenth century and throug...