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The Canajoharie & Catskill Railroad was one of the pioneer railroads, and one of the resounding early failures, of this or any region. Chartered in 1828 as the Catskill & Ithaca, it was to run inland from the village of Catskill on the Hudson toward Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region, but reached only as far as Cooksburg in 1842. Never realizing even a fraction of the through traffic for which it was built, in 1842 it was abandoned and scrapped. A train of the Canajoharie & Catskill was memorialized by the founder of the Hudson River school of painters, Thomas Cole. His work, River in the Catskills, hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. |
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