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From The Desk Of Dan Myers

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Modeling The O&W

Modeling The O&W By Malcolm H. Houck

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Northen Division Bridge & Building Department

Northern Division Bridge & Building Department By John Taibi

O&W Ramblings

O&W Ramblings By Malcolm H. Houck

Owen’s Footprints

Owen’s Footprints By Kenneth L. Hojnacki

Rapido Trains 44-tonner Models

Rapido Trains 44-Tonner Models

Rich Cobb’s Modelshop

Rich Cobb’s Modelshop

Scranton Division Nuggets

Scranton Division Nuggets By Peter Brill

The Cornwall Chronicles

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The Midland And Beyond

The Midland And Beyond By Richard Palmer

The O&W – Then & Now

The O&W – Then & Now By Ray Kelly

Member & Assorted Articles

The Original Wickham Avenue Middletown Station and the Construction of the New Depot By Steven R. Cohen
New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company Annual Reports 1880-1955
The Ontario & Western Technical & Historical Society Observer Reprints
My Time And Place With The O&W Railway By James N. Parrella
EXCERPTS FROM A THESIS – History of the New York Ontario and Western Railroad By George William Pratt, 1942
Shawangunk Barrier By H. H. Gross
The Mighty O&W By Pierre DeNio
A Hundred Years Before the Merger: Erie and Lackawanna Strategy on the Cayuga Division from 1851 to 1858 By Howard Zendle
The Tale of Two Rivers: A Historical Erie Railroad Site Near Binghamton, NY By Howard Zendle
When Steam Passenger Service (Almost) Returned To The O&W in 1974 By Steven R. Cohen
Central Square Station – Yesterday & Today By Richard Palmer
Incident At The Centerville Station By Richard Palmer
After The Deluge – The Story Of The ’42 Floods By Elwin Mumford & Ed Crist
Marine Line Equipment Addendum By John Bifano
Dispatch Newsman Is Last O&W Passenger By Richard Baldwin
“Meola’s Special” On The O&W – Chenango Telegraph – Friday, January 29, 1943
Abandonment Of The NYO&W By William S. Young
Inside The Murray Plant By Howard Zendle
Riding The “Toonerville” On The O&W By Arden W. Coe
Snowbound At Rockwell’s Mills By Roy Gallinger
Did The O&W Ever Operate Trains In The Lehigh Valley? “I don’t think so…” By Peter Putman
Iron Rails and The Birth of Scranton Pennsylvania By Howard Zendle
NYO&W: A Personal View By Robert E. Mohowski
Two Wheels Through Mamakating By Ronald J. Vassallo
The O&WRHS Anniversary Weekend By Dave Ackerman with Steve Barry
Keeping Warm On The NYO&W In The Diesel Era – Modeling The Unique-To-The-O&W Heater Car In HO Scale By Peter Terwilliger
A Second Track For The Cadosia Creek Viaduct By Jeff Otto
Collector’s Corner – Signs Of The Journey By The AV Chief
Locomotive USA No. 1368 – Contributed By Walter J. Kierzkowski And Dan Myers
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It By Bill Schneider
O&W Autumn By Paul Lubliner
Munnsville In The Forgotten Years By John A. Canfield
Archives Reprints – Summitville, NY By Joe Bux
Turning Back The Clock By Bill Schneider
Getting To The Bottom Of Stone Culverts By Ronald J. Stanulevich
“Other” Cabooses – A Postscript – Has a Long-Lost O&W 8000-Series Caboose Been Rediscovered? By Ronald J. Stanulevich
The O&W’s “Other” Cabooses – Early 8-Wheel Caboose Cars Of The NYO&W Railway By Ronald J. Stanulevich
Called Home To Glory – The Disaster At Chiloway Switch By Ronald J. Stanulevich
Rail-Concrete Masonry on the New York, Ontario & Western Railway By Ronald J. Stanulevich
The Original O&W Whistle Stop Tour By Leroy Y. Beaujon
Bankruptcy (20 years) vs. Receivership (60 days) By Mal Houck
Railroading in the Stockbridge Valley Observer
O&W Industrial Archaeology By Mark Kennaugh
NYO&W Railway And Connections – The NYO&W as a Bridge Route By Robert E. Mohowski
NYO&W Scranton Division By Robert R. Malinowski
Accident on the New York Ontario & Western, Middletown, NY – Sept. 28, 1937 Compiled By Peter Brill
New York Ontario & Western Diesel Photo Roster By Frank A. Pearsall
NYO&W – What If By Pete Putman
O&W Wreck at East Main Street, Middletown NY – 6/25/32 By Douglas J. Barberio & Peter Brill
Modeling The O&W By Malcolm H. Houck
Mayfield Yard Observer

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April 2025 Meeting & Presentation
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January 2025 Membership Meeting and Presentation
December 2024 Meeting and Presentation
October 2024 Membership Meeting and Presentation
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June 2024 Meeting Presentation
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April 2024 Meeting Presentation
March 2024 Meeting Presentation
February 2024 Meeting & Presentation
March 2015 Meeting Presentation
October 2015 Meeting Presentation
December 2015 Membership Meeting
NYO&W No. 105 on the New York Central
The Old & Weary Railroad
Return of the Bluebirds
Cab Ride To Cadosia
NYO&W Steam

Modeling Articles

Modeling The O&W By Malcolm H. Houck
Phase II F-3A in 1/4″ Scale By Tony Koester
NYO&W Water Tower Complex Part II By Julian Cavalier
NYO&W Water Tower Complex Part I By Julian Cavalier
Modeling an O&W station – Burnside, NY depot in HO scale By Paul Lubliner
The Depot Of The NYO&W And NYC Railroads At Central Square, New York By Harold Russell
NYO&W Erie Canal Bridge No. 50 By Julian Cavalier
NYO&W Creamery – A Lineside Structure By Julian Cavalier
New York Ontario & Western four-wheel caboose By J. Harold Geissel
Water Tower Modeling By Julian Cavalier & Joe Bux
New York Ontario & Western Coal Trestle By Julian Cavalier
Oneida Castle Station By Joseph J. Bux
Wurtsboro Depot By Julian Cavalier
NYO&W freight house By Harold W. Russell
Lyon Brook viaduct By Harold W. Russell
Great Stations of the New York, Ontario & Western By Joe Bux and Lou Sassi
Modeling the Oneida Kennicott Water Softener Plant By Joe Bux
O&W 4 Wheel Caboose Clinic By Joe Bux
Sykes Motor Car Clinic By Joe Bux
NYO&W coaling station at Middletown, NY By Harold W. Russell
NYO&W Milk Stations By Harold W. Russell
The Utica Freight House By Harold W. Russell
NYO&W Hartwood Depot By Julian Cavalier
Modeling the Middletown & Unionville and Middletown & New Jersey By Christopher D’Amato and Allen McClelland
Build An O&W Diesel Sand Tower By Robert E. Mohowski and John Forni

Marine Line Equipment Observer

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Railroading in the Stockbridge Valley Observer By John Taibi

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Mayfield Yard Observer

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The Old & Weary Railroad Movie By Hal Carstens

Hal Carstens Cab Ride On New York Ontario & Western Railway. August 1948. Train Number One At Weehawken Terminal Ready For Run To Roscoe and Return Trip To Middletown. Number 101 On West Shore. Click on image for access.

The Voice Of O&W Steam

NYO&W Camelback U-1 Ten-Wheeler Number 241 With Sound. This video shows a Camp Train on the West Shore at West Nyack, NY. September 7, 1928. Click on image for access.

April 2025 Meeting & Presentation

March 2025 Meeting & Presentation

February 2025 Meeting & Presentation

The L&HR In New York; A Pictoral Look At An Important Bridge LineAs Well As The Communities It Served From Warwick To MaybrookBy Railroad Historian Alan Held

January 2025 Meeting & Presentation

January 2025 Membership Meeting and PowerPoint presentation entitled Anthracite Branches of the NYO&W By Bob Earle and Walter Kierzkowski. Click on image for access.

December 2024 Meeting & Presentation

Business Meeting and PowerPoint Presentation By Bob McCue on the Erie's Newburgh Brach and The Schunemunk Trail. Click on image for access.

October 2024 Meeting and Presentation

October 4th 2024 O&WRHS Business meeting followed by a Powerpoint presentation by Carl Ohlson entitled: The history of lighting from whale oil through kerosene and how the technology changed the evolution of O&W hand lanterns.

September 2024 Meeting & Presentation

September 2024 Membership Meeting & Presentation By Hans Segboer. Hans takes us on a trip along the Erie's Greenwood Lake and Ringwood Branches from Pompton Junction to Sterling Forest with a stop in Ringwood at the site of several mines. Click on image for access.

June 2024 Meeting Presentation

April 7th 2024 O&WRHS Meeting Presentation Coming Into Maybrook: A Detailed Look At The Rail Lines Servicing The Maybrook NY Yard By Joseph Mato. Click on image for access.

May 2024 Meeting and Presentation

Membership meeting followed by Ray Kelly’s detailed Then & Now journey on the NYO&W’s Middletown Branch. Click on image for access.

April 2024 Meeting Presentation

April 5th 2024 O&WRHS Meeting Presentation entitled: The New York Ontario & Western Railway’s Scranton Division By Walter Kierzkowski. Click on image for access.

March 2024 Meeting Presentation

March 1st 2024 Meeting Presentation entitled: Owen Asks? Trivia, Trains, Tributes and Transparency. Help The Society Help You! By Erik Pioselli Click on image for access.

February 2024 Meeting and Presentation

February 2nd 2024 Membership Meeting followed by a PowerPoint Presentation by Doug Barberio entitled: Diamonds, Junctions, Interchanges and Interlocking Towers CN to WX. Click on image for access.

October 2023 Meeting Presentation

October 11th 2023 Meeting Presentation By Jeff Otto. on the O&W's Coal Facilities in Middletown. Click on image for access.

August 2023 Meeting Presentation

August 24th 2023 Meeting Presentation: Tracing Remnants Of The NYO&W A Quarter Century Ago By Pete and Ross Putman. Click on image for access.

December 2015 Meeting & Presentation

December 4th 2015 O&WRHS Meeting followed by a PowerPoint Presentation by Bob Thamsen covering several decades while working for various roads including Penn Central, Conrail and CSX. Click on image for access.

October 2015 Meeting Presentation

At the Ontario and Western Railway Historical Society’s October 2nd 2015 Membership Meeting, it’s youngest member, Alex Prizgintas, gave a presentation entitled, “Stone Arches, Rock Cuts and a Trip to the Summit.” A brief history of Orange County’s only inclined funicular. It turned out to be a fascinating story of the long forgotten Harriman Incline Road. Click on image for access.

March 2015 Membership Meeting

March 4th 2015 Membership Meeting followed by a PowerPoint Presentation entitled: Diamonds, Junctions, Interchanges, and Interlocking Towers Southern Division from (BX-SI) Highview To Sidney. By Douglas J. Barberio Click on image for access.

Gerald M. Best’s Steam Odyssey – Camelback Country

This footage is from Gerald M. Best's "Steam Odyssey, From Chicago to New York's Camelback County." Featuring the New York Ontario & Western. Click on image for access.

Roscoe O&W Railway Museum

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Interview With O&W Fireman Ted Lewis

Excerpt from interview with O&W Fireman Ted Lewis. Click on image for access.

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