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Thanks to a grant administered through the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, (funded through Federal Library Services and Technology Act moneys, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services), a series of images from the collection of th...

From the Surface Transportation Board, North Shore to acquire remaining portion through East Berwick to just south of Shickshinny:

http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ ... enDocument

Thanks to a grant administered through the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, (funded through Federal Library Services and Technology Act moneys, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services), a series of images from the collection of th...

The Valuation maps for Maybrook Yard have been posted to the site:

http://www.hrvh.org/cdm4/document.php?C ... R=64&REC=3

Take a look at the online collection posted by John Liles - you'll find an extensive array of Erie, DL&W and EL public and employee timetables, among many other items. While not for sale, these images should serve to give you an idea of what's out there: http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/in...

Stillwells in running order are still out there -- the Whitewater Valley Railroad has been steadily renovating their small fleet of Stillwells (and even one of the 1960's NYS&W, ex-D&H, nee B&A Osgood -Bradley coaches!): I was out there several years ago, when they had just started on th...

Good Start would be John Liles' webpage of Erie Employee Timetables: http://www.jon-n-bevliles.net/RAILROAD/Erie%20ETTs/erie_etts.html Look for the Delaware Division. I strongly recommend that you not start poking around the rest of John's railroad pages unless you have a few days to spend -- for st...

Farmer's Almanac reported the following about that December 1960 Blizzard -somewhat similar to our most recent storm: 1960 December 12 Pre-Winter Blizzard in Northeast 20.4" of snow at Newark, NJ; 17" at New York City, NY; 13" at Boston, MA: Nantucket, MA, had 15.7" with wind ave...

In light of the recent snowstorm, a posting appeared on the Erie Lackawanna List (http://lists.railfan.net/cgi-bin/lists/wilma.cgi?erielack-digest.archive) of a mimeographed sheet the Erie-Lackawanna distributed to riders after a 1960 storm. Thought the List might find these images of interest: http...

Yup, it was nasty up here in the O.C. Thank God we didn't have any of the winds the outside edge of the storm got or we'd still be running the chainsaws! The great majority of the county lost power on account of the heavy, wet snow the first half of the storm. Not just branches but whole trees were ...

Some press from the Times Herald-Record today: Port Jervis Line back in service after suspension 55 trees fell on train tracks; signal system lost electricity By Judy Rife Times Herald-Record Posted: March 02, 2010 - 2:00 AM Regular service resumed on the Port Jervis Line Monday after a three-day su...

Dug back in the archives - here is the link to the STB filing for the actual agreement:

http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ ... enDocument

To further nydepot's posting: Tom Madden's Pullman database is a wonderful compilation of all sorts of Pullman car information - really worth taking a look at: http://home.att.net/~pullmanproject/ The Database has this information on Glen Saddell, a 6 Compartment, 3 Drawing Room sleeper: Lot 4974, P...

In an unrelated posting for the NY State list, I had stumbled across this webpage, with a couple small views of the station, as well. Looks quite nice!

http://orrmillspublishing.com/contact_us

Some background information: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/f.html#f44 In 1888, Sir Algernon Freeman Firth established a carpet production facility for T. F. Firth & Company in Orange County near Cornwall on the Hudson, New York State. Both the factory and th...