| The dairy industry
made an important contribution to the revenue picture of New York State
railroads and the presence of milk trains on the Ulster & Delaware
attests to management's high regard for this commodity. Shipments of milk
on the Ulster & Delaware lasted until the early 1950's when the trucking
of dairy products became more economical with improved highways throughout
the Catskills and down to the New York City market.
(One
other railroad of the Catskill region could have become a major player
in the dairy trade: the Canajoharie & Catskill. Dairies along the
C&C's built and projected path through the fertile rolling hills
near the Durhams, Freehold, Cooksburgh and on out to Canajoharie would
have been well-served by this nearly stillborn railroad. Since the Road
to Potter's Hollow was listed on Beach's survey of the short-lived
line, we have included a view of the small creamery at Potter's Hollow,
built decades after the railroad disappeared).
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