Train car - Roscoe, New York - Static Train Cars on Waymarking.com

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"As with the caboose, the car will be open during regular museum hours, with a small donation requested in lieu of an admission fee."

"The stocking of our Catskill Mountain streams by railroad is a part of our heritage that is long forgotten. The New York & Oswego Midland Railroad began an aggressive campaign to open up the wilderness of Sullivan and Delaware Counties. In 1878, the Midland began stocking the 400 miles of streams in the area with 1.5 million trout. In the beginning, baggage cars and box cars were used to haul the iced, trout filled milk cans to easily accessible river crossings on the railroad. Once at the river site the cans were carried by the men to the stream and dumped. For sites more distant from the railroad, the cans were loaded on horse back for the journey to the stream. There were often times when the train would stop on a bridge to dump the trout directly into the river below. The railroad could also foresee a lucrative passenger business and ordered the Middletown shops to outfit passenger cars as "Fishing and Hunters specials." "

Type of train car: trout car Location: Roscoe O&W Railway Museum Price (In local currency): 0 Interaction allowed: yes Visiting hours: Not listed

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