Olive Branch Railroad Station
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This Ulster and Delaware Railroad
station, MP 12.6, used to be located in the town of Olive Branch, which was sunk under the Ashokan Reservoir
. People, especially tourists
, stopped at the station to go vacationing, considering it was a popular vacation spot and had a lot of well-maintenanced boarding house
s before it was sunk. Freight was also loaded on to trains that stopped there, considering there were plenty of farm
s there.
The station was abandoned on June 8, 1913.
Ulster and Delaware Railroad
The Ulster and Delaware Railroad Company was a Class I railroad located in New York State, headquartered in Rondout and founded in 1866. It was often advertised as "The Only All-Rail Route To the Catskill Mountains." At its greatest extent, the U&D ran from Kingston Point, on the Hudson River,...
station, MP 12.6, used to be located in the town of Olive Branch, which was sunk under the Ashokan Reservoir
Ashokan Reservoir
The Ashokan Reservoir is a reservoir in Ulster County, New York, USA. The reservoir is in the eastern end of the Catskill Park, and is one of several reservoirs created to provide the City of New York with water. However, it is one of only two reservoirs in the Catskill Watershed. It is also New...
. People, especially tourists
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
, stopped at the station to go vacationing, considering it was a popular vacation spot and had a lot of well-maintenanced boarding house
Boarding house
A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...
s before it was sunk. Freight was also loaded on to trains that stopped there, considering there were plenty of farm
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
s there.
The station was abandoned on June 8, 1913.