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From: Rod Dav4is <>
Subject: Re: [GenConnecticut-L] RAILROAD ... HISTORICAL SOCIETIES (plus MIDDLESEX CANAL)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:54:52 -0500
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The Little Nine Partners Historical Society (Dutchess, NY) has put one of
its pamphlets on its website. Lots of good local color. Pine Plains was a major
RR hub in the early 20th century.

Vol. 4: Pine Plains and the Railroads
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylnphs/V4/index.htm

All the text is there, but the pictures (from this booklet) have been
delayed due to technical problems beyond our control... Please stand by. ;o)

-R.
webmaster
(catching up on old mail...)

BBFFRRPP wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My best friend lost a grandfather around 1925, and was told that he was
> killed in a train accident. The youngest child in this Pacheco family
> from Cambridge, MA, was about one year old.
>
> And, my grandmother was always told that her birth mother was killed in a
> train accident while traveling ... when she was about one year old. This
> would have occurred to a Miss ____ Dexter around 1900. (My research now
> shows that this might not have been true, but that her birth mother probably
> died during childbirth.)
>
> I just went to www.google.com and put in the words, Railway Disasters.
> One of the sites I found was the following:
>
> http://www.nhrhta.org/htdocs/boston.htm
>
> And it looks like their monthly magazine has had some great articles,
> including some great photos.
>
> I also know about this web site:
>
> http://members.verizon.net/~vze264n3/bmrrhs/
>
> Does anyone know of any other Railroad Historical Societies which may be of
> interest ... to New England researchers?
>
> Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
> P.S. There is now a Middlesex Canal Museum:
>
> http://www.middlesexcanal.org/

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