From the Catskill Mountain News, September 2,
1924
U&D Passenger Traffic
Declines
Passenger business on the Ulster & Delaware Railroad for the
past season shows a falling off from the summer of 1923. The high
peak of ticket sales was reached in 1912 when over 260,000
passengers were carried by rail to the Catskill Mountains. With the
increase in automobiles there has been a corresponding decline in
passenger traffic on the shorter line railroads. Owing to the
nearness of the Catskills to New York plus the good roads the loss
to the U&D from motor vehicle transportation is greater than
railroad lines erving other mountain
resorts.
