Swirling Around in Fish’s Eddy – Part I by John Canfield
“Other” Cabooses
– A Postscript - Has a Long-Lost O&W 8000-Series Caboose Been Rediscovered?
by Ronald J. Stanulevich
Draper's Switch
- by Dan Myers - Photos from Dan Myers and Jeff Otto
Northern Division Roots by Doug Ellison
If Only This Stuff
Could Talk (Sometimes It Does) Text &
Photographs by Jack Norris
Train 24 and the Iona Island Wreck by Dan Myers
A Short History Of the
Claryville Branch Of the
New York Ontario & Western Railway
by Charles M.
Breiner
Discovering the O&W's Middletown Branch
by Ray Kelly
DeForest Diver: Engineer - Photographer
- Inventor Special Thanks to Steven Smith, Jeff Diver, Jill
Powell, Jack Tepper
& Dan Myers
"It’s
the End of the World As We Know It...."
by Bill Schneider
Northern Division
Bridge & Building Department - Trout and Trains –
A Beaver Kill Photo Story by John Taibi
Now
Pinch Hitting for AV – Walgreen’s! by
John Canfield
Third Time A Charm - NYO&W # 105 Gets Another Chance
Special Thanks to Patrick Stapleton
The Borden’s “Butter
Dish” Milk Tank Car by John Canfield
The O&W’s
“Other”
Cabooses - Early 8-Wheel
Caboose Cars of the NYO&W
Railway by Ronald J. Stanulevich
Munnsville in the “Forgotten” Years
by John Canfield
Rail-Concrete
Masonry on the New York, Ontario, & Western Railway
by Ronald J. Stanulevich
O&W Day At The Mamakating Depot,
June 13, 2004 by Ron Vassallo
Oversized Gla's on the O&W
by Bob Karig
An Evening In Middletown
by Ronald J. Vassallo
Coming Into Maybrook?
by Ed Weinstein
The Life and Death of the
New York, Ontario & Western Railway by Bob
Karig
It's
In The Box, Too by Ken Hojnacki
A Different View of the NYO&W Kingston Branch
by Les Dahlstedt
Remembrances of the O&W -
Highlighting Richard M. Hanschka Various
Authors
The Original O&W Whistle Stop
Tour by Leroy Y. Beaujon
The Auburn Branch Of
The New York & Oswego Midland by Richard Palmer
An Old
Time Excursion Over the Midland's Auburn Branch
by Richard Palmer
How
Beaver Meadow got it's name, and other sketches of the surrounding vicinity
by Richard Palmer
Livingston
Manor's Historical Secret by Wilmer E. Sipple
Along
The Line by Wayne G. Levitt
Boyhood
Recollections of the O&W by Philip E. Munson
The
Story of Roscoe's Trout Weathervane by Wilmer E. Sipple
What
Makes the O&W Go! Introduction by Ken Hojnacki
Pete Putman's
Virtual Bus Tour Part II
The Original O&W Virtual Bus Tour
by Pete Putman
The
Story of the Mamakating Mine (Various Authors)
The
O&W's Impact on the Catskills by Wilmer E. Sipple
Roscoe's
Secret O&W Treasure by Wilmer E. Sipple
Roscoe's
O&W Treasure Buried Forever W. E. Sipple
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Amazing New Photos!
These were sent to me by fellow member Michael
Ciarimboli from Brentwood Tennessee.
The following is from the e-mail he sent with it. Thanks again Mike!
Ron, here are two photos of the Cornwall Station site from the
North looking south taken in the early 1950's. I sent copies to
the archives several years ago. I was given these photos by Paul
Gould- the son of artist John Gould who owned Bethlehem Art
Gallery on Jackson Road in Newburgh. I was visiting my father
and brother in New Windsor and stopped in to see if there was
anything new and interesting for sale at the art Gallery. I have
many of John Gould works that pictured sites in the Hudson
Valley including prints of the stations at Firthcliffe and
Cornwall. It turns out John Gould had died recently and his sons
were at the gallery inventorying and packing as it was closing.
Paul asked me if I had any of his father's works and I started
running down them-The ferries at Newburgh and Beacon, The
Poughkeepsie Bridge, the NYC Niagara at Cold Spring and the
stations at Cornwall and Firthcliffe.
He told me about watching
O&W wooden cars on the tracks that ran under the Jackson Road
bridge. Then he mentioned that he had a box of photos that his
father used in his train studies for his paintings. His father
once painted for the New Haven RR and did many train paintings.
The box was mostly what I would call generic train photos of
many railroads including several books. But there was one manila
folder that said "RR Stations" The two Cornwall photos were in
the folder folded in half with a large crease down the center
that cracked the B&W images. I hoped to find the Firthcliffe
photos but they were not in the box. He said I could have them.
After returning to Nashville I took them into one of the Imagers
that worked for me in Prepress at The Tennessean where I was VP
of Operations. The Imager, Marilyn Patton scanned them and
repaired them digitally. The photos are early 1950's. Steam is
still alive on the West Shore but the Cornwall station is
looking run down and neglected. The station site can easily be
found today as it is a parking lot with a row of pine trees in
front of it right along the tracks. The concrete foundations for
the water columns were still in place the last time I was there.
There were both a round and a hexagonal opening in each. Both
are covered by ballast but if you look close in the attached
photo which is roughly from the same location as the first
Cornwall photo you can see the concrete foundation of the
Northbound Column peeking out from the ballast. Just south of
the road crossing where the water tank stood there are some
unique stones with pins in them that may have been the piers for
the water tank. The pictures John Gould painted of
Cornwall and Firthcliffe can be found at
http://www.bethlehemartgallery.com/bethlehem/hudsonvalleyandbeyond.htm
