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(erielack) O&W Operations - Last Day March 29, 1957 - Erie and DL&W content.



To all listers:

Just received this and wanted to pass it on, as it is very interesting. Hope 
the copy of the DS sheet at the bottom transmits OK. 

JJBoehner



..this was sent via the O&WRHS and shows the operation on the very last day 
of the New York, Ontario & Western R'wy...March 29, 1957....48 years ago today
 
What is interesting is that for all practical purposes it looks like almost 
any other day. The Norwich to Oswego train went up with 6 cars and brought down 
25, which would have included the Fulton switcher and caboose. But the Fulton 
Switcher handled 17 cars.
 
At Norwich, the 805 left at 9:12pm (last train out of Norwich) with 19 cars. 
It appears then that perhaps 11 cars went to the DL&W (or ??) as ON-2 went 
south with 25, the Rome job came in with 4 and the Oneida job 1.   Standing in 
Smyrna or Earlville you would have seen 6 trains.
 
Look at the Delhi job, left with 1 car and brought back 6....makes me wonder 
what they did with it, unless it was actually the caboose (which is most 
probable)
 
The 803 / 821 delivered 81 cars to Coxton....on the last day ! and then 
returned to Mayfield, and went out as timetable NE-6 with 12 !
 
The Kingston Job went up with 11 cars and brought back 12.
 
Even the Port Jervis / Monticello job handled 8 cars ! (or six if you take it 
account for caboose)
 
North of Norwich it appears they handled 30 cars, with an additional 19 
Norwich -north cars going down on NO-10 = 49 cars. Much more than the NYSW does now 
on the Utica side in a day.
 
Note also the movement of ERIE 437 on the Pine Bush job.
 
With this ERIE turn, there were 10 trains to be seen if you stood north of 
Middletown that day, with one coming in from the south (WN-9).
 
Not bad for a dead railroad.
 
Our thanks to Ed Lewis and Russell Hallock for sharing this, and the good 
folks of the O&WRHS for sending it out for us today and preserving the history 
and heritage of the railroad.
 
May we not forget the O&W !

from Russell Hallock (O&WRHS)Many years ago Ed. Lewis, who wrote the 
shortline guides, was kind enough to send me a photocopy of the dispatcher's sheet 
from the last day of operations, March 29, 1957.  I donated it to the archives 
but haven't seen it in a long time.  I did make a summary of the train movements 
that day and have copied it below.

                                    
Northern Division:                                      train # (S)     loco# 
(S)

                                                                  NO-1/ ON-2  
 805    leave Norwich 6:20 A, 6 cars @Oswego 10:15A to 1:33P   25 cars  
arrive Norwich 6:05 P115        lv. Norwich 6:50A, 1car   @Rome 9:10A to 10:50A    
4 cars,  ar. Norwich 1:25P (nothing to Utica)116        lv. Norwich 10:50A  2 
cars @ Oneida 12:30 P to 1:05P  1 car arrive Norwich 2:40P117        lv. 
Fulton 10:10 A  0 cars   @Arrowhead 10:20 to 11:50 A  17 cars   ar. Fulton 12:05 
P118        lv. Cadosia  8:35 A  1 car  @ Delhi 10:35 A to 11:10 A  6 cars  ar. 
Cadosia 1:00

                                                                    PNO-10    
      801        lv. Norwich 11:30 A 8 cars   @ Cadosia 1:50 P to 2:25 P  19 
cars  ar Middletown 4:50 Pextra             805        lv. Norwich 9:12P  19 
cars  pass Cadosia about midnight, arrive Middletown 3:25 A 3/30/57Scranton 
Division111        lv. Mayfield 1:25 A  7 cars  @ Peckville 1:40 to 1:45 A    ar. 
Mayfield 1:55 A803,821   lv. Mayfield 1:25 A  81 cars  @ Coxton 3:25 A to 
4:00 A  1 car  ar. Mayfield 5:50 A

                                                                   NE-6       
    821, 803   lv. Mayfield 7:15 A  12 cars pass Cadosia 8:35 A  ar. 
Middletown 11:05 ASouthern Division

                                                                   WN-9       
    501,502    lv. Weehawken 1:10 A  3 cars   arrive Middletown 3:25 A   
3/29/57114        lv. Cadosia 8:41 A  12 cars    arrive Middletown 2:05 P123       
 lv. Middletown 11:33 A  2 cars @ Monticello 2:00 to 2:20 P 6 cars @ Port 
Jervis 3:40 to 5:15 P 1 cararrive Middletown 7:00 P120       lv. Middletown 11:10 
A  11 cars @ Kingston 3:05P to 3:45 P  12 cars  ar. Middletown 6:40 PErie     
 437       lv. Middletown 4:50 P  7 cars  to Pine Bush and back  5 cars  ar. 
Middletown 7:45 P

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