It's certainly the RR Twain and his family took to/from Elmira every 
year, and which Twain used when he needed to go back from Elmira to 
Hartford or to NY by himself. Two officials with that RR arranged a 
special car for the family each year: A. Reasoner, whose full name and 
dates I do not know; and Frank J. Griffith (b. 1847). Twain gave them 
each inscribed copies of Grant's Memoirs by way of thanks (inscr by SLC, 
not Grant, of course!). The Langdon's either owned that RR or owned a 
substantial amount of stock in that RR--I don't recall which.

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------ Original Message ------
From: "miki pfeffer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 4/10/2021 4:29:14 PM
Subject: Re: Delaware Lackawana & Western Railroad

>Scott,
>Do you have the stops between Hartford and Frederic Church's Olana?
>Grace King mentions cities they pass through on their way in 1887.
>Miki
>
>On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 2:06 PM Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  I don't know but I suspect that Mark Twain road this railroad more times
>>  than any other railroad.  I have created a page with the route and
>>  depots.  It runs from New York (Hoboken) to Buffalo, through Elmira.
>>
>>http://twainsgeography.com/content/delaware-lackawanna-western-railroad
>>
>>  Some of the route is guesswork.  It is derived from Google Earth, kml
>>  files from the University of Nebraska and Wikipedia.  None of the maps
>>  I've seen show the road through Perkinsville even though the map of
>>  depots show the location of the depot and I even have photos of what
>>  remains of the depot.
>>
>
>
>--
>Miki Pfeffer, Ph D
>*A** New Orlean**s Author i**n Mark Twain's Court: *
>*Letters from Grace King's New England Sojourns   *
>(LSU Press, 2019)
>*Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the
>1884 New Orleans World's Fair   *(University Press of Mississippi, 2014)
>