2008 CALENDAR
Jan. 4 – O&W RHS Meeting
Jan. 26 & 27 – Amherst Railway Society RR Hobby Show,
Eastern States Exposition, 1305 MemorialAve., West Springfield, MA, Sat.
9A – 5P, Sun. 10A – 5P, 4 buildings,
www.AmherstRail.org
Feb. 2 – O&W RHS Meeting
Feb. 9 – M&NJ RHS Meeting
This in from Dan Myers earlier this afternoon (08/07/2007).
A bulldozer has been put in place at O'Connor's Crossing (County Route
93)to begin pulling the rails of the M&NJ Ry.
The contractor is from Unionville and will begin to remove the rails
immediately toward Unionville.
Thus ends the 140 year steel connection between Wawayanda and Minisink.
The photo shows the Cat loader and the crossing at O'Connors 8-7-07.
A few weeks ago I took a commemorative 'last
run' on the lower end of the M&NJ Railway in the Town of Minisink.
Both of the enclosed photos were taken at Waterloo Mills, NY. Today I
returned to the site and found nothing but leaves where the rails had been
for the past 140 years. It will be interesting to see whether any
rails remain in the Town of Minisink in five weeks when the actual 140th
anniversary of the Middletown. Unionville & Water Gap RR's first run
occurred. Dan Myers - Fall 2007
