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<\/a>(Canastota, NY \u2013 Aug. 2013) The Canastota Public Library announces on Thursday, Sept. 5 at 6:30 p.m. John Taibi will debut his new book \u201cThe Oneida Railway Company\u2014from Horsecars to Interurbans.\u201d\u00a0 This event will be held on the second floor of the library in the newly renovated Children\u2019s Area.\u00a0<\/p>\nThis is author, John Taibi\u2019s 12th book, the first in CD-PDF format, and is presented in the same fashion that readers have come to expect from Taibi\u2019s works.\u00a0 This format provides for the addition of color photographs as well as a folder containing maps of the entire Third Rail\u2019s route.<\/p>\n
The book will be for sale and every purchaser and guest of the presentation at the library will receive an authentic artifact from the Third Rail\u2019s life as a free gift.<\/p>\n
Light refreshments will be served after the PowerPoint presentation.<\/p>\n
Taibi has compiled all his research on this historical time in local Rail Road History in this 284 page book.\u00a0 The research chronicles the life of the Oneida Railway Company from its earliest days to its most vibrant years as a modern interurban railway that provided timely, efficient, fast and safe conveyance for hundreds of thousands of people per year.\u00a0 It also includes how the need for the railway developed, how it was built, the people who built it, how it operated, its types of equipment and the stops the railway made along the line.\u00a0 Taibi will explain the railway\u2019s downward spiral towards abandonment on Dec. 31, 1930.<\/p>\n
The Oneida Railway Company was born on the Fourth of July, 1889 as a 1.5 mile long horse drawn trolley line solely within the village of Oneida.\u00a0 The purpose of the line was to transport travelers from the New York Central Railroad Station to the West Shore\/Ontario and Western Railroad\u2019s Union Depot. This route was primarily via Oneida\u2019s Main Street.<\/p>\n
Thirteen years after it began operation, its service was suspended so that the line could be enlarged and converted to an electric operation.\u00a0 The track was extended along Lenox Avenue and a new portion was added to Wampsville at about the same time as the conversion to electric.<\/p>\n
At the time of its electrification, the railway had become a property of Cleveland (Ohio) based entrepreneurs who succeeded in aligning themselves with the New York Central Railroad.\u00a0 Together, the new owners decided to electrify the West Shore Railroad from Utica to Syracuse, a route that ran via the towns of Clark Mills, Vernon, Sherrill, Oneida Castle, Oneida, Canastota, Chittenango, Kirkville, and Manlius Center.\u00a0 To do this, the Oneida Railway Company was put in charge of electrifying the line.<\/p>\n
The conversion of the steam powered West Shore Railroad into an electric interurban corridor employed a novel means of supplying electricity to the cars, an under-running third rail.\u00a0 It was the use of this type of electric delivery system that gave rise to the line\u2019s nickname of the \u201cThird Rail.\u201d This 44-mile section of the West Shore Railroad would be the only such third rail line in upstate New York.<\/p>\n
Taibi is an enthusiastic railroad buff.\u00a0 He lives in a railroad depot built in 1881 by the O & W in Munnsville.\u00a0 The station was used until 1957.<\/p>\n
In 1994, Taibi completed all restorations.\u00a0 He has always had a keen interest in railroad history.<\/p>\n
The Canastota Public Library is located at 102 W. Center Street in Canastota.<\/p>\n
For additional information, feel free to contact the library at 697-7030.<\/p>\n
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