Friday, March 9, 2018

Freeville in the Good Old Days


It's hard to visual the out-of-the-way village of Freeville, near Ithaca, once being a major railroad junction. Nevertheless it was such for many years. At this point, the north-south and east-west branches of the Lehigh Valley crossed at a diamond and several times daily the place was a hub-bub of activity as travelers changed trains. There was even a restaurant in the station. But it was all gone by the late 1930s and the station was demolished in 1941.

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The Auburn Road, by Richard F. Palmer and Kenneth E. May, traces the history of the Auburn Branch of the New York Central Railroad and its p...