O&W Ramblings
By Malcolm H. Houck
No. 57 in a Series: NYO&W Passenger Car Lighting – Part I
No. 58 in a Series: NYO&W Passenger Car Lighting – Part II
The Midland & Beyond
A Series By Richard Palmer
Littlejohn Found Lumber Business More Lucrative Than The Midland
The L&HR In New York; A Pictoral Look At An Important Bridge Line
As Well As The Communities It Served From Warwick To Maybrook
By Railroad Historian Alan Held
Contributed By Richard Palmer
O&W Ramblings
Anthracite Branches of the NYO&W
By Walter Kierzkowski and Bob Earle.
The Midland And Beyond
O&W -The “W” Stands for “Willoughby” (Thank You Rod Serling)
By Robert McCue
The Erie’s Newburgh Brach and The Schunemunk Trail.
The Voice Of O&W Steam
NYO&W Camelback U-1 Ten-Wheeler Number 241 With Sound!
Modeling The O&WNew Article
Owen’s FootprintsNumber 32 in a Series
Shawangunk BarrierRailroad Magazine – September 1946 – Pages 10 – 43.
New Article
Digging Deeper With Doug Ellison
October 4th O&WRHS Membership Meeting and PowerPoint PresentationBy Carl Ohlson entitled:
The history of lighting from whale oil through kerosene and how
the technology changed the evolution of O&W hand lanterns.
From The ArchivesBy Bob Earle
This is the September 6th 2024 O&WRHS Business Meeting and Powerpoint Presentation. The program was given by local historian Hans Segboer on the Erie’s Greenwood Lake Division From Pompton Junction to Greenwood Lake and also includes the Ringwood Branch which serviced the Iron Mines. Many Thanks to Hans Segboer for his excellent presentation!
New Article
From The ArchivesNumber 25 in a Series
A Hundred Years Before the Merger:Erie and Lackawanna Strategy on the Cayuga Division from 1851 to 1858
By Howard Zendle
New Article
Northern Division Bridge & Building DepartmentGone, but not Forgotten – Martin Cavana
By John Taibi
New Article
An Octagonal Water Tank for the “Early O&W”
By Malcolm H. Houck
Class L 0-6-0 Yard Switcher And
An Overview Of Steam Locomotive Super Heating
By Malcolm H. Houck
Modeling the O&W
“Long Johns” And
Decoding The Mysteries Of Baker Valve Gear Class W 2-8-0
Models From Nickel Plate Products
By Malcolm H. Houck
No. 38 in a Series
“Primary Sources” – Postcards Of The O&W
By Mal Houck
Modeling the O&W
NO. 34 in a Series
8300 Series Cabooses – from Nickel Plate Products
Working Marker Lights – A Modest Enhancement
By Malcolm H. Houck
Modeling the O&W
No. 57 in a Series
Double Cab Water Piping and The Sellers Type N Lifting Injector
By Malcolm H. Houck – MMR
Modeling The O&WNumber 39 in a Series
Number 41 in a Series:
Modeling the O&W No. 45 in a Series
Class B 4-4-0 Double Cab “Eight Wheeler” – No. 1
By Malcolm H. Houck
When Steam Passenger Service (Almost) Returned To The O&W in 1974By Steven R. Cohen
Modeling The O&WNo. 56 in a Series
Fish Car “Adirondack” in HO Scale
Part II
By Malcolm H. Houck
New Article
Central Square Station – Yesterday & TodayNew Video
June 7th 2024 O&WRHS Meeting PresentationComing Into Maybrook
A Detailed Look At The Rail Lines Servicing The Maybrook NY Yard
By Joseph Mato
New Article
Number 30 in a Series
Owen And The Great War Part II
The Supreme Sacrifice
By Kenneth L. Hojnacki
Archives Reprints1994-2024
New Article
From The ArchivesNumber 22 in a Series
Northern Division Bridge & Building DepartmentThe Reorganization Proceeding Reports and the Disappearing Depots
By John Taibi
New Article
Pilots and Plows. . . or not?
Modeling the O&W – food for thought!
By Mal Houck
After The Deluge
The Story Of The ’42 Floods
By Elwin Mumford & Ed Crist
Fred, Frank, Shel, and Bill – all Real O&W Men
By John Taibi
March 1st 2024 Meeting Presentation entitled:Owen Asks?
Trivia, Trains, Tributes and Transparency.
Help The Society Help You!
By Erik Pioselli
New Article
Oneida Daily Dispatch, Monday, April 10, 1957Dispatch Newsman Is Last O&W Passenger
By Richard Baldwin (Dispatch State Editor)
Compiled By Richard Palmer
From The ArchivesNumber 20 in a Series
Number 6 in a Series
The O&W Way
New Video
February 2nd 2024 Membership Meeting followed by a PowerPoint Presentation by Doug Barberio entitled:
Diamonds, Junctions, Interchanges and Interlocking Towers CN to WX.
New Article
Editors: John Bifano & Allan F. Seebach, Jr.
O&WRHS Observer Vol. XXVII, Nos. 1 to 9.
January – September 1992.
Along The Right of WayNumber 5 in a Series
What Railroad Is This?
Part I
By Douglas J. Barberio
New Article
“Meola’s Special” On The O&WChenango Telegraph – Friday, January 29, 1943
Contributed By Richard Palmer
Modeling the O&W
No. 55 in a Series
By Mal Houck NMRA MMR #696
NYO&W – Fish Culture and New York Fisheries Department
Fish Car “Adirondack”
Part 1
Number 14 in a Series
The Midland Centennial Line
New Article
Railroad Model Craftsman – October 1970, Pages 32-39.
©1970 Carstens Publications. Used By Permission.
Contributed By Kenneth L. Hojnacki
By John Taibi
Northern Division Bridge & Building DepartmentSummertime in Cuddebackville; How I met the O&W
By John Taibi
New Article
Contributed By Richard Palmer
Novermber 2023 Meeting Presentation
From The ArchivesNumber 18 in a Series
Iron Rails and The Birth of Scranton, Pennsylvania
By Howard Zendle
New Article:
The O&W Loops – Sylvan Beach & Pecksport
By John Taibi
Owen’s Footprints
By Peter & Ross Putman
By John Taibi
New Article
From The Desk Of Dan MyersNumber 12 in a Series
More On 44-Ton Trusts & Trust Plates
Scranton Division NuggetsNumber 5 in a Series:
The Middletown & Unionville Buys Coal, Sometimes From O&W Origins
By Peter Brill
From The ArchivesNumber 16 in a Series
Tender Thoughts
By Bob Earle
New Article
O&W AutumnBy Paul Lubliner
Number 4 in a Series
“The More Time These People Get, The More They Want”;
Fortunately J. N. Haines Was Not President Of The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
By Peter Brill
By Ronald J. Stanulevich
Introduction And Photos By Ronald J. Vassallo
By Peter Brill
New Article
Northern Division Bridge & Building DepartmentHomer Underwood – Master Station Builder
By John Taibi
Scranton Division NuggetsNumber 1 in a Series
DL&W and CNJ Discuss Changes in Scranton Operations
Involving Relaying Former O&W Trackage in 1958-1959
By Peter Brill
Northern Division Bridge & Building DepartmentMaking the Grade
Up & Down the O&W Railway
By John Taibi
Bankruptcy (20 years) vs. Receivership (60 days)By Mal Houck
New Article
Owen’s Footprints
Number 21 in a Series
Read Instructions Before Operating 44-tonner
By Kenneth L. Hojnacki
New Article
From The Archives
Number 15 in a Series
PC-O&W-NH Routing
By Bob Earle