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This
amazing real photo view
shows Engine 16, a parlor car, coach and combine leaving the station
at Haven. Haven was between Wurtsboro and Westbrookville on the Port
Jervis Branch. The list of stations on the website lists Haven as a flag
stop, same as Westbrookville, however I know that Westbrookville had a
structure.
My question is whether there was ever a station at Haven?
The card has a
1907 Haven postmark, so I know there had to be a post office.
What is on
the other side of the track behind the passenger cars? Photo and
caption courtesy of Steve Swirsky.
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Once again the Photo of the month goes to Steve
Swirsky and this excellent photo of the Middletown Coal Yards. Steve
Swirsky Collection.
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O&WRHS Member Steve Swirsky sent us
this Charles Ketcham photo of the "NYO&W R.R." Fire Department during a Fire
Parade in MIddletown. In his e-mail he notes,
"The date may be around 1912 as the 48 star flag was
adopted July 4, 1912. "
If you look closely at the banner
in the distance it says "Ontario Hose Company -
Liberty. There is one other photo I know of showing the
NYO&W Fire Department and that is the one in the Middletown Observer showing
the Ontario Hose Company No. 5. Is this banner for the same company or was
there another company with a similar name from Liberty joining the parade?
Were
there any broadsides or special tickets for this event
showing the date?
When was Old Home Week held as noted in the writing?
Aside from posing many questions, I think this photo tells
us a great deal about the citizenry of Middletown and it's history.
They were obviously very proud of their "bravest" and it is reflected by the
throng of men and women gathered to pay tribute and show their appreciation.
P.S. - Where can I get one of those cool hats?!
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The Summitville NY (SV) pump house is clearly seen in the lower right hand corner of the
image. The pump house was a pretty good size.........measuring 16' X 16' and
enclosing an 18 h.p. Ames boiler to power a Worthington pump. From the data
I have, the water was pumped from a spring and the well sump was only about 6'
deep! In the image you can see both a Northbound on the Main, and a Southbound
heading down the line to Valley Junction. As in the photo caption in the
Observer, you can also see a mail crane still in place for "catches" on the
Southbound track. Mal Houck -
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Class Y going south into Campbell Hall over bridge #40.
Ray Kelly Collection.
Here,
northbound on the West Shore at West Englewood Depot ( Teaneck NJ ), is
a late image of the Ontario Express showing the very minimal consist
typical of what had become of the once bountiful O&W passenger traffic.
A single F-3 with a heating tender, in this cold weather shot, heads up
BE car (albeit a steel OB car, but demonstrating at this late date that
the O&W Express business still had some currency) and the single AC&F
coach-observation car as all that is needed for few paying customers who
elected to be “Ridin’ the Rails” at this late date. Caption
by Mal Houck.
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These
Cornwall photos was sent to us by O&WRHS Member Mike Ciarimboli.
They were so good that they both were included for photo of the Month.
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This aerial photo of the
Firthcliff station grounds and the Firth Carpet Company facilities appeared
in an ad in the 1959 Hudson Valley Progress Edition of the Newburgh Evening
News. Firth Carpet had a good presence in the Newburgh Area until the 1960's
with a second smaller facility at 311 First Street. I suspect that the First
Street location was either a retail
or finishing/shipping location. Caption and photo by Mike Ciarimboli. Caption and photo by Mike Ciarimboli.
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Scan of photo taken from a glass plate
negative showing the Little Falls Trestle under construction perhaps around
the late 1890's.
Donated by James Ruef.
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This photo came
from a glass plate negative in the O&WRHS Archives. Taken in Mamakating
it shows the old RT. 17 underpass also known as "Danger Arch", and the
O&W Mainline. This stretch of RT. which is shown heading down and around
"Hairpin Curve" was the scene for many an accident. If you were
traveling on the O&W you would have just come through the Highview
Tunnel which is about a 1/4 mile to your left. The Mamakating depot was
a short distance to the right.
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John Stellwagen captured NW-2 112 at
Wisner Ave. on the saddest day in O&W history, March 29, 1957.
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Sailors get ready to board a troop train at Hamilton on September 4, 1945.
These are NYO&W steel cars just back f
rom service on the Atlantic
Coastal Line. Walt Kierzkowski Collection.
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Hopper cars burned to their frames after a fire at Walton in
January of 1913. Steve Swirsky Collection.
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Camp extra 226 south at AV Sept 2 1940.
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Camp extra 246 at Summitville Aug 31, 1939. Walter Kierzkowski
Collection.
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Camp extras at Monticello August 29, 1941.
Special Thanks to Walt Kierzkowski for sharing these photos
from his extensive collection.
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Harry Zannie (an old O&W railfanning pal of
Hal Carstens) snapped this photo at Dumont, NJ.
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Oil train photo
taken at "Pines". Pines was a siding on the NYO&W which held 13 cars.
Milk cars picked up at Pines were marked "100" Pine's. Pines was between
Beerston and Walton NY. (MP 177.35 - Elevation 1,2o6 ft. Caption
and Photo courtesy of Walt Kierzkowski.
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O&W # 402 Westbound
on the West Shore in Orangeburg NY in 1947. Taken by O&WRHS Member
Harold Fredericks from the roof of the Orangeburg Manufacturing Company.
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