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Attorney Thomas Byrne and a team of history enthusiasts have been working for over 15 years on the restoration project for the historic St. Michaels train station building. Two weeks
Douglas Poore May 5, 2021
Douglas Poore will discuss his book “Abandoned Railroads of Delmarva” in an online program May 10.
Douglas Poore, curator of the Greater Harrington Historical Society, will discuss his new book “Abandoned Railroads of Delmarva” in a live, online conversation hosted by the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books at 5 p.m., Monday, May 10.
For over 100 years, railroads were the king of transportation, growing sleepy towns into major hubs of commerce and opening areas of Delmarva to goods that once could only be read about in magazines and newspapers. This all changed by the 1960s, as trucks hauled items the railroad boxcars used to handle. Many old rail lines closed and were left to rust, while the rails and stations were abandoned to state governments. Through photographs of stations and memories of the rail companies that crisscrossed Delmarva, Poore’s book resurrects those earlier days, bringing Delmarva’s once-vital railroads b