The New York Ontario And Western Railway

Author : Joe Bux
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738562629
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The New York, Ontario and Western Railway written by Joe Bux and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Taibi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930098701
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering the New York, Ontario & Western Railway written by John Taibi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Taibi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738511757
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ontario & Western Railway Northern Division written by John Taibi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York & Oswego Midland Railroad-reorganized in 1879 as the New York, Ontario & Western Railway-was born out of necessity and a desire to populate and industrialize the interior regions of New York State. The railroad meandered down from Oswego, traversed the north shore of Oneida Lake, and then took a southerly route through Oneida and Norwich before turning east for a mountainous crossing to gain the village of Sidney. The railroad was not a success in its time. The New York, Ontario & Western brought a degree of financial stability to the northern division, and the line functioned through the late 1950s. The Ontario & Western Railway Northern Division features photographs of the Ontario & Western, a railroad long on scenery but short on freight. The Ontario & Western inherited a railroad in search of revenue and a circuitous route that passed through one small community after another. Small wooden country depots dotted the line, locomotives of meager proportions pulled the trains, and dedicated employees did their best to keep the railroad solvent. The railroad is still fondly remembered today by those who rode its cars and witnessed its passing trains.

Author : New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the President and Officers of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Company, with Statements of Accounts for the Fiscal Year Ending ... written by New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Report on the New York, Ontario and Western Railway written by New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company with Statements of Accounts ... written by New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William F. Helmer
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ISBN 13 : 9781883789251
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book O & W written by William F. Helmer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book The O & W written by New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co and published by . This book was released on 1942* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Agreement Between the New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co., New York Central & Hudson River R.R. Co., West Shore Railroad Company written by New York, Ontario, and Western Railway Co and published by . This book was released on 1888* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Robert Karig
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Hard Coal and Coal Cars written by Martin Robert Karig and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.