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It Takes a Community to Run a Railroad

Posted on January 8, 2018

Actually, this is not a railroad story.  It is about, a group of people who decided to run a railroad.  A real one, as you can see for yourself in this film about one of their seasonal theme ride, The Polar Express.

Enjoy!

You could always Google “Catskill Mountain Railroad”, but here is a shortcut to their website. Even better is to take the train itself.  

1 thought on “It Takes a Community to Run a Railroad”

  1. Wendy Girard says:
    May 26, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    I love trains. I remember riding on this train to the “North Pole”, NY when I was a kid. It’s so great to see it again, virtually! Thank you for the memories.

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I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Stan Hirson

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