. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . to the heart of the businessportion of the city, now used for freight trains and for local passenger travelsouth of Spuyten Duyvil. Having escaped from the boundaries of the metrop-olis at Yonkers, it hugs closely the eastern shore of the American Rhine —through tunnels, piercing mountains, and over bridges spanning numerousStreams—past cities, towns and villages, many of them celebrated over morethan one continent — never practically deviating from the dead level of tide flowalong its margin, until it crosses the mighty river and enters
. Health and pleasure on America's greatest . to the heart of the businessportion of the city, now used for freight trains and for local passenger travelsouth of Spuyten Duyvil. Having escaped from the boundaries of the metrop-olis at Yonkers, it hugs closely the eastern shore of the American Rhine —through tunnels, piercing mountains, and over bridges spanning numerousStreams—past cities, towns and villages, many of them celebrated over morethan one continent — never practically deviating from the dead level of tide flowalong its margin, until it crosses the mighty river and enters the capital of theState, 142 miles from its point of departure. In addition to a double trackthroughout, the Hudson River Division has about 35 miles of third track and 76miles of sidings. Ferry connections are made at Tarrytown to Nyack; at Garri-sons to West Point; at Fishkill to Newburgh; at Rhinebeck to Kingston, and tothe Ulster & Delaware Railroad through the Catskills; and at Catskill Station to 9 10 HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS ON THE. the village of Catskill, whereconnections are made with theCatskill Mountain Railroad forthe Catskill Mountain Dutchess Junction connec-tions are made with the New-burgh, Dutchess & ConnecticutRailroad ; at Poughkeepsie,with the New York & Massa-chusetts Railroad; at Rhine-beck, with the Central NewEngland & Western Railroad;at Hudson, with the Hudsonand Chatham Branch of theBoston & Albany Railroad;at Albany, with the Bos-ton & Albany Railroadand at Troy, six milesabove Albany, withthe Hoosac TunnelRoute into Massa-chusetts Conner Highlands of the Hudson ; View from trains on the New York Central. tions are also made at Troy with lines to Montreal and Canada; to Saratoga; tothe Adirondack^, and through Vermont and New Hampshire, to the WhiteMountains. At Albany the line turns almost due west, and follows the natural route ofcommunication between the Hudson and Lake Erie. The only heavy grade,and that insignificant when c
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