Cover Artwork by Carl Ohlson

Now available at the owrhs.org sales page:

Ridin' the Rails - Passenger Equipment of the N.Y.O.& W. Ry."
the OWRHS 2007 Observer is now complete and mopst members already have it in their hands. It is now available to the general public through this website, out general membership meetings and any events where the O&WRHS sales table will be present.

For those not familiar with this newly completed book, it is 208 pages, of text, photos, car diagrams and a spreadsheet format roster of O&W passenger cars from car No. 1 to No. 546; -- the last item being complete withdisposition information as available.

In putting the passenger service of the O&W in a context, as it existed from 1870 to 1953, this Observer contains overviews of
passenger service and relationship of the O&W to the Borscht Belt hotel and resort areas of Sullivan, Ulster and Delaware Counties. Photos of O&W passenger trains in the heady days of full system service and multiple sections crammed with exuberant vacationers, are included along with images from the final days of diesel powered trains to Roscoe.

Many copies of internal company communications and memos have been carefully scripted and reproduced as images to give the reader the historic sense of passenger operations, and being there at the time, as they developed, and then as service and passenger trains waned and finally expired.

Of several Appendix entries is one devoted to certain abbreviations and definitions that further clarifies and enhances reader understanding. "Ridin' the Rails" will put the history of the O&W in a further context than has been enjoyed on the past, and adds another chapter to the lore of this remarkable story.

Mal Houck

$38 soft cover
($50 hard cover when available please check website)

http://www.owrhs.org/sales.html

3 Page Sample

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