NYO&W Film Debut Well folks, here it is, plain and simple. If you have missed O&WRHS events in the past and have kicked yourself afterwards, I am saving you...
I found this group while promoting the Mamakating event and thought some of you might want to check this out. There is an unbelievable assortment of postcards...
Hi Folks, In doing my research on the O&W, there seems to be some stories about the line after it was shutdown in March 1957. For example, there is a...
I can answer some of your questions. At least the northern end was already gone by fall of 1958, as we drove along it on the way to my admissions interview at...
I am posting this in response to the questions that Mike D"Amico has asked about the O&W, post abandonment. The following was referred to in his post as: "I've...
Two add'l items, folks: I BELIEVE there was some talk/discussion of D & H picking up a good bit of the line from Scranton up to some kind of connection to...
Mike - As for the O&W FTs, I've got that all the FTs (except set 806 and 807 -- they went to the Baltimore & Ohio) went to Secaucus, NJ until November 1965...
I saw a post recently about a program someone made for the computer to calculate scale. Can someone please direct me to the link? Thanks in advance...RV...
Folks - Does anyone know the approximate date when the Federal Creosote Plant at Livingston Manor stopped shipping by the NYO&W? Any idea what type of freight...
Sorry for the delay on this. Some of this may be speculation, but all the peices may come together. info provided by Doug Ellison Scrapping begain in Aug ?...
Northern Division Bridge & Building Department Frank Cating - Agent & Diarist by John Taibi It may seem like a very old-fashioned thing to do nowadays, but up ...
I am new to this group, but i wish to throw out a question to the masses that someone might be able to answer. On the converted NY O&W trail that runs between...
41st Anniversary Annual Convention & Dinner Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society, Inc. Saturday, November 13th, 2004 at Orange County Community College...
HI, I live in Simpson, PA which was along part of the Scranton Division of the O&W. I am also 1st VP of Fell Township Renaissance, Inc., a community group...
Ron......... I would love to attend this convention if only to hear my old buddy Bob Mahowski wax poetic and historic. Unfortunately my work here at Central...
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Joe: I am so glad to hear you made it through the rough weather ok... I hope to show your virtual tour to the group sometime in the near future, I hope. Once I...
I have read that half of Hartwood station still stands in Wolf Lake on East Rd.I have looked for it but cant find it.Does anyone know exactly where it is and...
Jeffrey Diver: I am glad to hear that your grandfathers photos have been preserved and are available for viewing. In the Summer of 1957, I visited with him at...
WAITAMINUTE, all! (and I hope this gets to Jeff Diver). I had been told and had even seen several items hereon that Cornell had turned over the D. Diver...
Kenneth F.Coombs, I am pleased to know that people have an interest in these pictures! I remember my grandfather had a lively exchange going with other ...
Hello, everyone, So far as we can tell from the Cornell Catalog, Cornell still has many, if not all, of the negatives. I have placed a call to Olin Library and...
All, Elaine Engst is the curator of Cornell Library's Archives. Here's her note to me regarding the situation with the DeForest Diver Collection: -Jeff ... ...
Tim: There is an official M&NJ yahoo group and I am sure you will get an answer as several official of the M&NJ Historical Society subscribe to the group. ...
Tim, Last I heard they operate as needed, but typically Thursday mornings. Best way to find out what is going on, if anything, is to call them directly. ...
There is an old spur track from the NYO&W that the recent rains uncovered just past the turnoff past McDade Park in Taylor going up Ransom Road on the right...
Hi John, Thank you for posting the information. I have been talking with Rich Caraluzzo (who had originally asked about O&W rails) and will pass on the ...
After getting a old topographic map from Jeff it pinpointed the same crossing of the Austin Branch over Continental Road, so it is the remains of the O&W ...
I recently read an article on this tunnel in 'Weird NJ' (a semi annual magazine). It was apparently owned by the NYS&W and abandoned in the '60's. Was this...