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Subject:	Re: Some Rush Hour
From:	Bob Arnold <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:49:19 -0400
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I do not have my notes here, but there are similar very large counts for trains in that period (and earlier) carrying millions of passengers annually through Albany, and of literally hundreds of trains per weeks passing through that city. The denisty of rail traffic was enormous once the through road, Albany to Buffalo, was opened in the 1840's.

>>> David Minor <[log in to unmask]> 07/13 8:48 PM >>>
York Staters,

According to French's Gazetteer of 1860 in the fiscal year ending September
30, 1858, New York State trains had carried 43,786,579 passengers. If I'm
reading the report correctly, that's a lot of people. Does anyone else have
any thoughts on the accuracy of that count?

Regards and all aboard,

David Minor


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