on either side of the Mohawk. That on the south side
had the most travel as it led through three Mohawk "castles" or
villages, one at the mouth of the Schoharie Creek, one at
Canajoharie, and the third at the town of Danube, opposite the
mouth of East Canada Creek. Farther on, the trail passed through
the present towns of Fort Plain, Utica and Whitesboro. The trail
on the north bank led through Tribes Hill, Johnstown, Fonda and
Little Falls, where it united with the main traveled route.

At West Albany are extensive shops of the New York Central Lines.
When working full capacity about 1,400 men are employed here. The
machines are all of modern design and electrically driven. There
are large freight yards having a trackage of nearly 100 M. The
passenger car shops include two great buildings which are used
for making general repairs and one for construction of steel
equipment. One of the repair buildings is 42 ft. by 200 ft. and
has a track capacity of 100 cars, and the other, 400 ft. by 80
ft., a capacity of 180 cars. There are two enormous paint shops,
a blacksmith shop, where numerous forgings are made for other
departments, a woodmill, a machine-shop with a floor space of
13,000 sq. ft., and cabinet, upholstering, brass and plating
shops. The truck shop covers 1,800 sq. ft., and is used for
building and general repairs of trucks of wood, built-up steel,
and cast-iron. From the tin and pipe shop is supplied all the
light metal ware needed by the railroad.

[Illustration: 1831-1921

Showing the dimensions of the first equipment of the present New
York Central Lines--the DeWitt Clinton and three coaches--in
comparison with the modern locomotive used to draw the Twentieth
Century and other fast trains.]

159 M. SCHENECTADY, Pop. 88,723. (Train 51 passes 11:57a; No. 3, 12:47p;
No. 41, 4:57p; No. 25, 6:12p; No. 19, 9:32p. Eastbound: No. 6 passes
5:24a; No. 26, 5:56a; No. 16, 11:35a; No. 22, 1:24p.)

At this point we first enter the historic Mohawk Valley, and on this
site, according to tradition, once stood the chief village of the Mohawk
Indians.

The Mohawk River rises in Lewis County (northwestern N.Y.), flows
south to Rome, then east to the Hudson River which it enters at
Cohoes. It is 160 miles long. There are rapids and falls at
Little Falls and Oriskany which have been utilized to d