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A brief history of the New York, Ontario, and Western Railroad. The “Old & Weary”, the Old Woman….appropriate names for this beleaguered railroad which somehow managed to survive for nearly a century. The O&W began as the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad.
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York , to Middletown, New York , in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad received track from Utica to New Hartford, New York, and track in Norwich, New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania. The New York Central took over sections of O&W New York track between Fulton and Oswego, as well as track in Rome, Oneida and Kingston.
Map showing route of New York & Pennsylvania Railroad. The line was built in segments. The first section built was from Oswayo east to Genesee. The company was at that time the Olean, Oswayo, and Eastern Railway Company, incorporated in 1892. Service began in 1893.
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This site is dedicated to all things about the New York, Ontario & Western Railway, a Class One railroad extending at one time from the NY Metro area to Oswego, NY on the shores of Lake Ontario as well as to Scranton, PA, with additional branches in upstate New York.
The history of the Ellenville to Kingston spur of the New York, Ontario and Western Railway (the O&W) begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the construction of the rail spur from Summitville, NY to Kingston, NY. , forcing the demise of the D&H Canal. The coal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania is shipped via rail much more quickly than ...
