Author and railroad buff Douglas Poore will discuss his new book, Abandoned Railroads of Delmarva in an online conversation on May 10.Coastal Point ⢠Submitted
Douglas Poore, curator of the Greater Harrington Historical Society, will discuss his new book âAbandoned Railroads of Delmarvaâ in a live, online conversation hosted by the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 10.
For more than 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. That all changed by the 1960s, as trucks hauled the goods the boxcars of the railroads used to handle. Many old rail lines closed and were left to rust, while the rails and stations were abandoned to the state governments.