Emendations and Errata

When the Railroad Leaves Town: Eastern U.S.

Listed below are proposed emendations and corrections as of April 2, 2002, organized by page number, based on comments brought to the author’s attention in recent months. Minor grammatical errors are excluded. The author welcomes suggestions and comments. He can be reached at jschwiet@depaul.edu.

Page      Emendation
xvi        Photo location is Hopedale, Mass.
14         Communities along Connecticut river should be Middle Haddam and East Haddam
16         Will omit phrase "having encountered opposition from town leaders". I have been told that J.T. Scharf was mistaken on this point in History of Delaware.  Note also on page 17 that the Smyrna town hall became known as the "Opera House" after the 1948 fire.
20         Publication date of Trail of the Blue Comet: 1994. Author of Life of Edward Budd: Mark Reutter
75         First full sentence: omit the words "the route from". Omit word "Indiana" from next paragraph.
80         Photo is by David Oroszi
89         Top of page, substitute word "removed from service" for "abandoned"
91         The destination of excursion trains appears to have been Camp 133
149       First letter of Troy section is a T (computer error)
185       Change phrase "at approximately the same time as" to "more than a century after"
212       Manfield B. Wakefield’s To the Mountains by Rail should be listed as a suggested reading.
240       Abandonment year of last electric route occurred in 1931 (not 1929). Also, the reference to Lorain in last paragraph of page 239 should be changed to Lorain County.
248       First letter of Xenia section should be "F"
310       Date of "fateful conversation" was 1960 (not 1980).
311       Author of The Durbin Route is William Price McNeel
315       For clarity, the phrase (first column) "east of Clarksburg" will be changed to "east of Cumberland, Md."
319       Second column, second sentence: phrase should be "now enjoyed"

Individuals to be added to acknowledgement list: Ligonier: E. Kay Myers, Coventry, R.I., Brian Manning