Great American Railroad Journeys - Season 1 Episode 5

Following the Hudson north, first to to Poughkeepsie, site of a pioneering women's college where Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Meryl Streep graduated. The wild Catskill mountain range, long trapper country, inspired mass nature tourism and Thomas Cole's romantic 'Hudson River' painting school leading it. Finally Albany, state capital of New York and once an industrial metropolis, now grand for its opulent capitol, where Michael ponders the US federal system.