The Middletown and Unionville Railroad; successor to the Middletown; Unionville and Water Gap Railroad; operated from December 1; 1913; until May 31; 1946; when it was reorganized as the Middletown and New Jersey Railway. The railroad�s main revenue was derived from the transportation of dairy products; feed; coal; lumber; and passengers along its 14.5-mile right-of-way from the city of Middletown through Slate Hill; Johnson; Westtown; and Unionville in Orange County; New York. It provided a connection between the Erie Railroad in Middletown; the New York; Ontario Western Railway in Middletown; and the New York; Susquehanna Western Railroad in New Jersey. All three of these railroads had unique relationships with the MU during its period of operation.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A small rural American town. much like many others -- except . . .By R. M. PetersonSharpsburg. Maryland is a small rural town like many in America -- except that the Battle of Antietam (or the Battle of Sharpsburg. as it is called in the South) was fought on the rolling terrain just outside the town on September 17. 1862. The Battle was the bloodiest day in American military history (about 23.000 casualties). It also marked a pivotal point in the Civil War.Vernell and Tim Doyle. residents of Sharpsburg. assembled the images and wrote the text of this installment in the Images of America series. The book is divided into five sections:The Town -- Photographs and other images of Sharpsburg buildings dating back to the eighteenth century (many are log houses);The People -- Photographs of residents of Sharpsburg. from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries (too many of these are large group pictures. such as the 113 children in the Sharpsburg School in 1920);The Battlefield;The Canal -- Sharpsburg is two to three miles from the Chesapeake Ohio Canal that parallels the northern bank of the Potomac River; these photographs of coal barges and pleasure cruise boats being drawn by mules on a towpath constitute the most interesting section of the book for me; andThe Area -- Photographs of old structures on the outskirts of Sharpsburg.On the whole. the textual excerpts accompanying the images are lengthier than is the norm in the Images of America books I have seen. Unfortunately. some of them contain a fair measure of repetition; they evidently were written as stand-alone entries without regard to someone (like me) reading the entire book. entry after entry. My other complaint concerns the absence of a contemporary map or plat of the town. which for Sharpsburg would have been so easy to provide since the town contains only eight streets. Still. I appreciated learning what I could about an American town I have visited (now. four times).
