Author Archive: Ronald J. Vassallo

From The Archives Number 8 in a SeriesRail Facts –Average Age Of Main Track Rail – Dec. 5, 1949

With covid, most O&W RHS meetings have been held online, via Zoom. However, this year (2022), we are partially resuming in-person meetings in Middletown with two meetings: April 8th and August 5th. Details on the April 8th meeting are listed…
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With covid, most O&W RHS meetings have been held online, via Zoom. However, this year (2022), we are partially resuming in-person meetings in Middletown with two meetings: April 8 and August 5. We also plan to resume holding our annual…
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Special Thanks to Doug Barberio for sending this to me. 

From The Archives Number 7 in a Series A Rough Day Railfanning The Middletown Incident By Bob Earle

Just got this update from Doug pertaining to his latest article: The last part of the article pertaining to the last days of operations on the O&W came from William Gale. We received this from Doug Ellison many years ago…
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I almost forgot to give a special shout out to Mark Kennaugh and Peter Brill for helping to edit this awesome article.  Without guys like this who basically go unnoticed in the background, they are paramount in helping us to…
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Number 2 in a SeriesTimes and Travels of Symbol Freights SU-1 and US-2

Winter 2022 Double-Issue in Color

The Old Monticello Please welcome to the fold, new Author, Mr. Joey Senese!