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O&W Long Life & Slow Death New York Ontario & Western 2nd Ed revised Helmer
O & W 2nd Edition Revised by William F Helmer
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket 2nd revised edition
Reflections from the lights on some photos.
213 pages
Copyright 1959
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations iv
Acknowledgments vii
Prefaceix
Chapter One 1
Chapter Two 31
Chapter Three 47
Chapter Four 65
Chapter Five 85
Chapter Six 115
Chapter Seven 139
Appendix ( Roster of Equipment) 169
Bibliography 207
Index 209
ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
Midnight at Middletown frontispiece
First NY&OM map xiv
Dewitt C. Littlejohn 5
NY&OM Articles of Association 6
Lyon Brook bridge 11
No. 1, the Oswego 11
H. H. Purdy 14
Thomas L. Foulkes 14
B. of L.E. card14
NY&OM timetable19
NY&OM bond 23
"Rainbow Trestle"26
Two passenger tickets26
Auburn Branch map 30
Abram S. Hewitt32
No. 2, the Madison 40
No. 3, the Chenango 40
Cal Sanford 41
No. 76 and crew 41
Inspection engine No. 3 43
Blind crossing at Trout Brook 43
Tombstone of John E. Minshull 44
O&W joint timetable46
Winter at Walker's Cut 49
Engine No. 4149
Sylvan Beach Special53
Haverstraw station53
Early Mother Hubbard 54
Disaster at Fish's Eddy 58
Tracks into Edmeston 61
Northfield Tunnel baptism 61
Official car Warwick 63
Engine No. 11163
Scranton timetable66
Steel bodied #26 68
Inspection engine #2868
Carbondale station 69
Wooden coach #65 69
Middletown station and lunchroom 70
Inspection engine #2670
Raft-O&W photo spoof 71
Wreck at Fish's Eddy 71
O&W tugboat75
Official Car #25 75
"Homemade" Mother Hubbard 77
Engine on Carbondale Trestle77
Lyon Brook bridge 80
Burt Wells by his #9980
Morrisville station81
Second #69 81
Mayfield Yard84
Starlight runaway tragedy86
Fargo ice for milk trains 86
Depot at St. Joseph's 90
Weehawken piers90
1907 system map93
1907 connections map 94
Explosion near Luzon 96
Horton mystery wreck 96
Parlor Car #8897
Second No. 1397
Oneida Castle Station102
Jumble at Port Jervis102
Teakettle No. 226 103
No. 351 passes a rival103
Middletown terminal, 1913106
Inspection train at Middletown 106
Wreck of immigrant coach 110
Awaiting Beach-Oneida shuttle113
Trainmen on Beach run 113
Bullmoose hauls Mayfield coal 114
Norwich roundhouse 118
Fish's Eddy Depot 118
Docks at Cornwall 119
Cadosia trestle119
Utica Division countryside123
#308 at Cadosia 126
No. 324 ( Class W) 127
Steamers 244 and 409 130
O&W's first motor passenger car 130
Fallsburg station 131
Onetime Merrifield station 131
O&W combination car 134
Coal trestle at Oswego 134
Extra No. 225 135
Franklin Springs station 135
No. 801 in scenery near Apex 138
Switcher #52 142
Mountain type #454 142
Engine #405 143
The Roscoe Express 143
Renovated parlor car 145
Ulster interior 145
No. 405, the Mountaineer 147
High View Tunnel signal tower 147
Freight on hill152
Pat Diver in Engine 4405 152
Wooden coaches to children's camps 153
Freight hauls milk, late 1930's153
Train #9 clears main for freight 156
The Roscoe Express 156
Train #9 at Walton 157
Scranton line trestle repair 157
Diesel #503 161
Dispatcher H. T. Dixon 161
Engine #601 at Middletown station164
Diebold's "honeymoon car" 165
Teakettle across Liberty Trestle 167
Last O&W train order 168
No. 72, the Pequannock 176
No. 21 (Class A) 176
No. 33, the Franklin 177
No. 99 (Class K) 177
Switcher #55 180
No. 115 (Class J)180
Old 24 (Class A) 181
No. 33 as a ten-wheeler 181
Dickson engine (Class S) 184
No. 255 (Class U) 184
Second No. 71185
Future O&W Mogul No. 7 185
No. 302 head on 188
No. 225 (Class E) 189
No. 218 (Class P) 189
No. 405 (Class Y) 192
No. 451 with butterfly plow 192
Bullmoose near Middletown 193
One of the Light 400's 193
Former O&W #503 196
Alco road-switchers 196
Mother Hubbard, 1908 197
No. 322 (Class W) 197
All-purpose #804 202
Converted parlor car Oneida 202
Motor car #802 203
G-E 44-ton diesel 203
"Vestibule Chair Car" 204
Chair car interior 204
1907 timetable - North 205
1907 timetable - South 206
Munnsville Station, abandoned 211
140 fine pictures full locomotive roster oil painting by Otto Kuhler in all its glorious color three maps
ON THE BACK COVER:
From the burgeoning story of the "nearly century old" railway, William Helmer has written a selective history that will delight you.
Though some of the O&W track dipped into New Jersey and into Pennsylvania, primarily it served New York State in the area between the lines of the Erie and the New York Central. It was conceived in an era of great commercial activity and national expansion and weathered years of financial fluctuation.
The railway offered infinite promise to the rural population sated with monotonous living. Although some irate farmers plowed under its roadbed as fast as it was graded (fences to contain cattle were expensive) others were soon convinced that the trains permitted larger markets for their produce.
The O&W was a tenacious road, and long after similar lines bowed to changing times and the encroachment of truck transport, it still hung on. Always enterprising, the "Old Woman" reached out her steel talons to grasp the freight of a new shipper until eventually she achieved over five hundred miles of rail.
There's alternating hope and heartache in this story, prosperity and poverty, dignity and degradation. William Helmer successfully recreates the atmosphere that distinguished the "Old and Weary" and gives your collection of railroad books a worthy addition.
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