Middletown & Unionville and
Middletown & New Jersey Reading List
Compiled by Doug Barberio
NATIONAL RAILWAY BULLETIN - By The National Railroad Historical Society:
1947, Vol.12 #3, page 14 - M&U
THE DIAMOND - By The Erie Lackawanna Historical Society:
Vol.9 #2, pages 4-6 - Erie Steam Locomotives Running on the New York,
Susquehanna & Western Railroad In the 1940's By John Franz
ERIE MEMORIES - By Ed Crist
Pages 107 & 138
ERIE POWER - By Frederick Westing and Alvin Staffer
Pages 117, 260, 323
ERIE RAILFAN - By The Erie Railfan Society (Currently the Erie
Lackawanna Society):
Vol.2 #1, pages 4-7 - The Susquehanna Under Erie Control Part I By
Cutis Carlough, Wilson Jones, Roger Rasor, John Treen
Vol.2 #2, pages 9 & 10 - The Susquehanna Under Erie Control Part II By
Cutis Carlough, Wilson Jones, Roger Rasor, John Treen
Vol.2 #3, pages 8 & 9 - The Susquehanna Under Erie Control Part III By
Cutis Carlough, Wilson Jones, Roger Rasor, John Treen
THE FINAL YEARS - The N.Y.O.&W. - By Ed Crist & John Krause
Pages 6, 35-37, 95
HISTORY OF THE LEHIGH AND AND NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD COMPANY - By Randolph
L.Kulp
Pages 9-12
HISTORY OF THE N.Y.S.&W. - RAILROADS OF AMERICA - By Walter Arnot Lucas
Pages ???
JERSEY CENTRAL LINES - By ???:
May 1981, Vol.2 #5, pages 15, 16, 25 - The Old Woman of the Shawangunks
- The N.Y.O.W. Part 1 By Peter Roehm
THE LONG LIFE AND SLOW DEATH OF THE NEW YORK ONTARIO AND WESTERN RAILWAY - By
William F. Helmer
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THE LACKAWANNA RAILROAD IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY - By Larry Lowenthal and
William T. Greenberg Jr.
Page 187
THE LEHIGH AND HUDSON RIVER VOLUME II: EAST END - By Ed Crist with John Krause
Page 10
LOCOMOTIVE QUARTERLY:
Fall 1977, Vol.2 #1, pages 5 & 6 - Susquehanna Power - Two Eras of
Identity By Raymond Brown
Spring 1996, pages 54-61 - Middletown & Unionville Sojourn
MEMORIES OF O&W POWER - By Paul Carleton
Page 43
MIDDLETOWN - A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY - By Peter Laskaris
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MINISINK - A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY - By The Bicentennial Commission, Town Of
Minisink, Orange County, New York (1988)
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MINISINK VALLEY EXPRESS - By Gerald Best
Pages 80 & 81
MODEL RAILROADER:
April 1970 - Middletown & Unionville Caboose By J. Harold Geissel
November 1985 - Kitbashing Middletown & Unionville Caboose By Alan Meede
NEW ENGLAND SHORTLINES - By Tom Nelligan
Page 18
NEW YORK ONTARIO and WESTERN IN THE DIESEL AGE - By Robert Mohowski
Pages 10-25, 42
THE NEW YORK ONTARIO & WESTERN and The DAIRY INDUSTRY IN CENTAL NEW YORK
STATE: MILK CANS, MIXED TRAINS and MOTOR CARS - By Robert Mohowski
Pages 40, 334
N.Y. OSWEGO MIDLAND Scenic Motor Bus Tour - By the Ontario & Western Railway
Historical Society
Pages ???
OBSERVER - By the Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society:
Vol.7 #5, May 1973 - Locomotive Roster
Vol.8 #4, April 1974, page 7 - Specifications of M&U Brill Car
Vol.8 #6, June 1974, page 7 - Reprint of Middletown Record
Vol.8 #7, September 1974, page 14 - Appointment of New Superintendent
Vol.10 #6, June 1975, page 9 - Book Review "Next Station will Be" NYS&W
Vol.10 #7, September 1975, page 11 - O&W and West Shore Agreement
Vol.11 #4, April 1976, pages 9, 12 - Death of E.P.Wheeler (pg12), Stapleton
Appointed chief of M&NJ Police (pg9)
Vol.11 #7, September 1976 - Reprint of Record Article on MU&WG
Vol.11 #9, November 1976, page 11 - M&U Box Cars
Vol.12 #8, October 1977 - New Jersey Midlands Rebuilding Middletown Yards
Vol.15 #6, June 1980, page 11
Vol.16 #2, Feb 1981 Front and Back covers
Vol.16 #4, April 1981, pages 4, 5 - Article about NYS&W Locomotive coming to
Middletown over the M&U
Vol.17 #9, November 1982 Insurance Value of East Main St. Station
Vol.17 #10 / Vol.18 #1 December 1982 / January 1983 History of O&W Historical
Society
Vol.17 #3-9, March - November 1984, pages 80, 81 - Scranton Division
Vol.23 #7-12, July - December 1988, page 27 - Along The Ontario Way
Vol.24 #1-6, January - June 1989, pages 23, 26 - The FT's
Vol.25 #1-6, January - June 1990, pages 11, 12, 27 - The Y-2's
Vol.26 #1-9, January - September 1991, pages 58-61, 72-73, 76, 91 -
Middletown: Home of N.Y.O.&W. and the O&WRHS
RAIL CLASSICS:
April/May 1990, page 54 - The 5.5-Mile Shortline Never Gets Out Of The
State Of New York By Peter Brill
RAILPACE:
October 1982, pages 25-27 - The Middletown & New Jersey Part I: From
MU&WG To M&U By Greg Liakakos
November 1982, pages 28-31 - The Middletown & New Jersey Part II: From
M&U To M&NJ By Greg Liakakos
RAILS BEYOND THE RUTLAND - By Philip R. Jordan
Pages 14, 18, 74
REFLECTOR - By The New York Susquehanna & Western Technical & Historical
Society:
August 1990, Vol.2 #2, page 6 - Night Freight Run: The Hanford Branch in
the Early 50's By Richard Ahlers
November 1990, Vol.2 #3, page 3 - Last Cars on The Hanford Branch By Tom
McConkey
July 1993, Vol.4 #4, pages 1-10 - Abandonment Proceedings: The Hanford Branch
By Mike D'Amico
September 1994, Vol.5 #4, pages 7 & 8 - Winton Branch By ???
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN:
April 1988, pages 50 & 51 - Perspective: Maintaining The Way By
Christopher D'Amato
August 1989, pages 70-79 - A Classic American Shortline M&U / M&NJ By
Christopher D'Amato & James Ankrum
August 1989, pages 82-84 - Middletown & Unionville No.6 By Ray Brown
September 1989, pages 72-80 - Modeling the M&U / M&NJ By Christopher D'Amato &
Allen McClelland
September 1989, pages 81-83 - M&NJ Slate Hill Station By Christopher D'Amato
October 1989, pages 60-66 - Scratch building M&NJ Engine House By Julian
Cavalier
October 1989, pages 66-69 - Modeling M&NJ 44 Tonner #2 By Christopher D'Amato
October 1989, pages 114-119 - Editors Notebook: M&NJ # 1 By Christopher
D'Amato
November 1989, pages 69-73 - M&NJ Middletown Depot By Christopher D'Amato &
Raymond Brown
December 1989, pages 90-97 - Kitbashing M&U No.7 & Caboose 51 By John Swanson
June 1990, pages 61-63 - M&NJ NRUC Boxcars By Wayne Sittner
December 1993, pages 62 & 63 - Perspective By Peter Brill
THE RUTLAND ROAD - By Jim Shaughnessy
Pages 202 & 203
SALISBURY's BOOK OF HISTORIC ORANGE COUNTY PICTORAL - By Robin and Michell
alisbury
Pages ???
SUSQUEHANNA : New York Susquehanna &Western - By Ed Crist & John Krause
Pages 66-71
THE SHORTLINE:
Nov.-Dec. 1977, Vol.5 #6, pages ??? - The Middletown & New Jersey By Douglas
Doane
TIMES HERALD RECORD - (Many more articles need to be researched):
July 16, 1964 Flames Destroy Ford, Weld and Cox Feed Mill in Westtown
March 20, 1965 Slate Hill Loses Milk Plant
July 28, 1965 Passenger Service
April 27, 1977 Photo of M&NJ
March 15, 1981 Story of M&NJ
October 4,1989 Neighbors: Railroadman In It For The Short Haul
TRAINS ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS, BOOK I - EASTERN RAILROADS - By Kalmbach
Publishing Co. (1943)
Page ??? - Photo M&U # 7 on Stone Bridge
THE SHORT LINE DOODLE BUG - By Edmund Keilty, Interurban Press (1988)
Pages 97 & 98 - Roster of M&U Railcars (all wrong)
MIXED TRAIN DAILY - By By Luciss Beebe, Howell-North (1961)
Page 23 - Drawing of Johnson Station By M.B. Wakefield
YESTERDAY'S IMAGES - By The Minisink Bicentenial Commission (1984)
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