Remembering the New York, Ontario & Western Railway
| Author | : John Taibi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : 9781930098701 |
The New York Ontario And Western Railway
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The New York, Ontario and Western Railway
| Author | : Joe Bux |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2009-01-12 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1439637040 |
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway was the first class-one railroad in the United States to be abandoned in its entirety. Whereas other rail lines were closed gradually, the federal government closed down the railroad on March 29, 1957, for its failure to pay employee withholding taxes. The railroad went into bankruptcy in 1937 after its main shipping commodity, coal, was rapidly replaced by oil for home heat. As time passed, the interest in this abandoned railroad grew, and much of the company's records have been recovered and preserved. Today, with 750 members, the Ontario and Western Railway Historical Society Archives Center houses this unique corporate record collection. In addition, there are extensive private collections of everything from locomotives, passenger cars, lanterns, and tools to company passes and railroad police memorabilia.
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway
| Author | : Joe Bux |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738562629 |
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway was the first class-one railroad in the United States to be abandoned in its entirety. Whereas other rail lines were closed gradually, the federal government closed down the railroad on March 29, 1957, for its failure to pay employee withholding taxes. The railroad went into bankruptcy in 1937 after its main shipping commodity, coal, was rapidly replaced by oil for home heat. As time passed, the interest in this abandoned railroad grew, and much of the company's records have been recovered and preserved. Today, with 750 members, the Ontario and Western Railway Historical Society Archives Center houses this unique corporate record collection. In addition, there are extensive private collections of everything from locomotives, passenger cars, lanterns, and tools to company passes and railroad police memorabilia.
O & W
| Author | : William F. Helmer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781883789251 |
The Ontario & Western?the O&W, or, as both boosters and detractors referred to it in its later years, the ?Old & Weary, ? operated from 1869-1957 and ran from Oswego on Lake Ontario to New York City, passing through the midlands and southern counties of New York State, with spurs to Utica, Kingston, Port Jervis, and Scranton, PA. Filled with colorful characters and miscellaneous machinery, O. & W. chronicles almost a century of alternating hope and heartache, prosperity and poverty, dignity and degradation. Her passing was mourned for a variety of economic and sentimental reasons, but the loss was deeply felt in an intangible way. The rambling, elderly, inefficient, accident-prone, irritating old railroad was a part of a way of life now gone from the American scene.
Hard Coal and Coal Cars
| Author | : Martin Robert Karig |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
From 1880 through the 1950s, the New York, Ontario & Western Railway hauled coal from the rich anthracite deposits of eastern Pennsylvania to homes throughout the eastern United States and Canada. In Hard Coal and Coal Cars, Martin Robert Karig chronicles the rise and fall of the O & W's coal hauling operation in a richly illustrated work that interweaves economic, industrial, and technological history. Karig opens his history with the intense competition for the rights to eastern Pennsylvania's lucrative coal-hauling business. He then details the technological developments that transformed coal cars from wooden carts carrying just a few hundred pounds to steel hoppers hauling several tons. Bringing the story into the twentieth century, Karig explains how the O & W's ownership ultimately abandoned the coal-hauling business in the 1950s as coal was supplanted by more reliable and convenient home heating fuels. Rich with the romance of the railroad and crucial to any understanding of Pennsylvania history, Hard Coal and Coal Cars will be the definitive book on a fascinating chapter of American life.
Rails Along the Oriskany
| Author | : John Taibi |
| Publisher | : Purple Mountain PressLtd |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 9781930098503 |
A comprehensive look at the history of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway's Utica Division and Rome Branch in central New York and the villages that were fortunate to have this very personable railroad running through them. This book perpetuates the love, agony, despair, glory, and memory of the O&W's operation along Oriskany Creek.
Railroads of New York's Capital District
| Author | : Timothy Starr |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2021-03-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467105600 |
New York's Capital District was ideally situated to become one of the nation's earliest and most important transportation crossroads. The Mohawk River was the only water level gap in the Appalachian range to the west, which led to the construction of the Erie Canal. Soon after its completion, the state's first railroad began operating between Albany and Schenectady in 1831. Other pioneer railroads followed, heading north to Canada, south to New York City, west to Chicago, and east to Boston. Over the next century, railroads like the New York Central, Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, and Delaware & Hudson built extensive passenger stations, freight and classification yards, and repair shops in the tri-city region. Passenger operations continue today at the Schenectady and Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak stations, while the Selkirk Yard is still an important classification point for CSX Transportation.
Middletown and Unionville Railroad
| Author | : Douglas Barberio |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2010-07-12 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1439638721 |
The Middletown and Unionville Railroad, successor to the Middletown, Unionville and Water Gap Railroad, operated from December 1, 1913, until May 31, 1946, when it was reorganized as the Middletown and New Jersey Railway. The railroads main revenue was derived from the transportation of dairy products, feed, coal, lumber, and passengers along its 14.5-mile right-of-way from the city of Middletown through Slate Hill, Johnson, Westtown, and Unionville in Orange County, New York. It provided a connection between the Erie Railroad in Middletown; the New York, Ontario & Western Railway in Middletown; and the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad in New Jersey. All three of these railroads had unique relationships with the M&U during its period of operation.
The Story of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad
| Author | : Edward Hungerford |
| Publisher | : New York : Robert M. McBride |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The Story of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad by Edward Hungerford, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
