New York's Capital District was ideally situated to become one of the nation's earliest and most important transportation crossroads. The Mohawk River was the o

When it came to first-class transportation, not many regions of North America had more to offer than the trolley lines of New Yorks Capital District. From their

New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line