From the Chenango Union, of Norwich, NY
Thursday, May 31, 1877

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New Time Tables

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   A new time table took effect on the Midland Railroad, on Monday last. On the Auburn Branch, train leaves Norwich at 1:30 P.M., arriving in Cortland at 6 P.M. Returning, leaves Cortland at 7 A.M., arriving in Norwich at 11:20 A.M., except on Tuesday and Thursday, when a Butter, Cheese and Stock Express will leave Cortland at 7 A.M., arriving at Norwich at 4:35 A.M., in time to connect with the train for New York, which reaches its destination the same evening. This arrangement will give those visiting Norwich on those days, five hours and a half in which to transact their business in this village.

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   Auburn Branch - New time table on May 8th. Butter, Cheese and Stock Express from Cortland, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. A thorough inspection of trestles and bridges has been made, timber is being distributed along the line, and the structures are to be placed in completed repair. Some forty men are employed in laying the ties which are to become worthless, and fifteen thousand have already been put down this season, while the whole number will increase to thirty five or forty thousand before fall.

   Conductor Dave Shattuck still runs the trains, and his popularity with the traveling public increases as the years pass by. Genial, courteous and obliging, he makes friends of all who take his train, and his name is a household word on the line. Mr. Shattuck has been for nine years connected with the Midland railroad, and for the past six years has been conductor trains having run over every portion of the road with the exception of the New Berlin Branch. While other conductors have received the "grand bounce", from various causes, he remains at his post, having been on the road longer than any of the conductors now employed upon it.