Listed below are proposed emendations and corrections as of April 2002, organized by page number, based on comments brought to Joseph Schwieterman's, the author’s, attention. Minor grammatical errors are excluded. The author welcomes suggestions and comments via email at
jschwiet@depaul.edu.
Individuals to be added to acknowledgement list: Ligonier: E. Kay Myers, Coventry, R.I., Brian Manning.
Emendations by page:
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"