It appears the DL&W is ripe for additional research. Thank you, Kevin.
As for Olana, I know that Twain probably took the Hudson River line to
Poughkeepsie on his Our Fellow Savages Tour but I have yet to do much on
this on the Twain's Geography site. To get from Hartford to Elmira Twain
would need to take the New York, New Haven and Hartford Line to New
York, then the DL&W to Elmira. I understand the Langdons were very much
involved in coal and coal was a primary source of revenue for the DL&W.
The Wikipedia article mentions that the diminishing of the coal trade
was a major factor in causing the DL&W to merge with Erie.
On 4/10/21 3:21 PM, Mac Donnell Rare Books wrote:
> 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.
>
> Kevin
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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)
>>
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