"Yankees at rest in the Albany and Buffalo Railways Cars" Titus H. Ware.
After the completion of the Erie and the Oswego canals in the 1820's, the usual route to Canada from New York was by steamer up the Hudson River to Albany, by canal from Albany to Oswego on Lake Ontario, and then across Lake Ontario by steamer. Railway building was underway by the early 1830's; so that by 1844, emigrants could take the train to Buffalo which was much faster although the fare was higher. The trip from Albany to Buffalo took twenty-five hours by rail instead of six days. These pen and ink sketches, drawn by an immigrant, are of his fellow passengers on an Albany and Buffalo Railway car, 27 August, 1844.
