(Oneida, NY – Sept. 2014) Railroad historian John Taibi returns to Oneida Public Library on Saturday Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. to continue his story in words and photographs of the Delaware & Hudson’s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail, this time focusing on the line between Oneonta and Binghamton.
The occasion for his presentation is the publication of his thirteenth book, “Roads, Rivers, and Rails: The Delaware & Hudson’s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail, Vol. 2, From Oneonta to Binghamton.”
In it, Taibi traces the Delaware and Hudson Railroad between Oneonta and Binghamton alongside the Route 7 corridor as viewed “during a typical Sunday drive.” Volume 1, published in 2012, followed the Heritage Trail from Albany to Oneonta.
“’Roads, Rivers, and Rails, Volume 2’ is a historic story of railroading between Oneonta and Binghamton, New York,” Taibi said, “but it is much more than a book about the railroad as it deals additionally with the environment of communities through which the steel rails and trains operate, including their histories, industries and noteworthy persons.”
Taibi, a popular speaker at the OPL and other venues, is the author of “A Ride through the Countryside: On the Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad,” “Remembering the New York, Ontario and Western Railway,” “Rails along the Oriskany,” “The Oneida Railway Company: From Horsecars to Interurbans,” and other works about Central New York railroads.
Volume 2 of “Roads, Rivers, and Rails: The Delaware and Hudson’s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail” is Taibi’s thirteenth published book and contains 341 pages of text, historical and contemporary photographs, maps and other illustrations.
For more information, stop by Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.