Thursday, September 04, 2025

int he 1970s, but no longer there, this was a portion of a 300 square ft mural in the foyer of the Hermann Memorial Library building at Loch Sheldrake, New York, painted by by Manville Wakefield who was chairman of the commercial arts dept at the college as well as the official historian for Sullivan county.


Author of "To the Mountains by Rail", a history of the O&W Railroad & resort hotel industry in the Catskill Mountains, Sullivan Co NY, and several other railroad history books

in Trains magazine February 1975


Picture is based on a photograph taken during station stop in Livingstone Manor. Mountaineer was a seasonal train that ran in the summers of 1939 to 41

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