{"id":58029,"date":"2014-09-17T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58029"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:18:35","slug":"taibi-talks-on-the-d-h-railroad-sept-20-at-the-opl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58029","title":{"rendered":"Taibi Talks on the D &#038; H Railroad Sept. 20 at the OPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-609\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/oneida-public-library-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"oneida-public-library\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) Railroad historian John Taibi returns to Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Saturday Sept. 20 at\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0to continue his story in words and photographs of the Delaware &amp; Hudson\u2019s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail, this time focusing on the line between Oneonta and Binghamton.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion for his presentation is the publication of his thirteenth book, \u201cRoads, Rivers, and Rails: The Delaware &amp; Hudson\u2019s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail, Vol. 2, From Oneonta to Binghamton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In it, Taibi traces the Delaware and Hudson Railroad between Oneonta and Binghamton alongside the Route 7 corridor as viewed \u201cduring a typical\u00a0Sunday\u00a0drive.\u201d Volume 1, published in 2012, followed the Heritage Trail from Albany to Oneonta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Roads, Rivers, and Rails, Volume 2\u2019 is a historic story of railroading between Oneonta and Binghamton, New York,\u201d Taibi said, \u201cbut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibi, a popular speaker at the OPL and other venues, is the author of \u201cA Ride through the Countryside: On the Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad,\u201d \u201cRemembering the New York, Ontario and Western Railway,\u201d \u201cRails along the Oriskany,\u201d \u201cThe Oneida Railway Company: From Horsecars to Interurbans,\u201d and other works about Central New York railroads.<\/p>\n<p>Volume 2 of \u201cRoads, Rivers, and Rails: The Delaware and Hudson\u2019s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail\u201d is Taibi\u2019s thirteenth published book and contains 341 pages of text, historical and contemporary photographs, maps and other illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, stop by Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) Railroad historian John Taibi returns to Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Saturday Sept. 20 at\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0to continue his story in words and photographs of the Delaware &amp; Hudson\u2019s Susquehanna Division Heritage Trail, this time focusing on the line between Oneonta and Binghamton. The occasion for his presentation is the publication of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}