The Story of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad

Dedication

To Those Pioneers
of our
North Country
who
Labored Hard and Labored Well
In Order That It Might Enjoy the
Blessings of the Railroad, This
Book Is Dedicated by Its Author.

Preface

Some railroads, like some men, experience many of the ups and downs of life. They have their seasons of high prosperity, as well as those of deep depression. Such a road was the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburgh. In its forty years of life it ran a full gamut of railroad existence. Alternately it was one of the best railroads in creation; and one of the worst.

The author within these pages has endeavored to put plain fact plainly. He has written without malice—if anything, he still feels within his heart a burst of warm sentiment for the old R. W. & O.—and with every effort toward absolute impartiality in setting down these events that now are History. He bespeaks for his little book, kindness, consideration, even forbearance. And looks forward to the day when again he may take up his pen in the scribbling of another narrative such as this. It has been a task. But it has been a task of real fascination.

E. H.

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A LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE ASSISTED MATERIALLY IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS BOOK

Richard C. Ellsworth		Canton
Harold B. Johnson		Watertown
Cornelius Christie		Syracuse
Richard Holden		Watertown
J. F. Maynard		Utica
Dr. Charles H. Leete		Potsdam
W. D. Hanchette		Watertown
Richard T. Starsmeare		Kane, Pa.
W. D. Carnes		Watertown
Arthur G. Leonard		Chicago
Robert Ward Davis		Rochester
George W. Knowlton		Watertown
L. S. Hungerford		Chicago
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew		New York
Elisha B. Powell		Oswego
P. E. Crowley		New York
Ira A. Place		New York
F. E. McCormack		Corning
Edgar Van Etten		Los Angeles
D. C. Moon		Cleveland
James H. Hustis		Boston
F. W. Thompson		San Francisco
Henry N. Rockwell		Albany
Chas. H. Hungerford		Arlington, Vt.
Charles Holcombe		Biloxi, Miss.