Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society, Inc.

Dedicated to Preserving the Heritage of the New York Ontario & Western and Other Area Railways.

Regular Membership in the O&WRHS will bring you (2) OBSERVER Publications, one which includes the O&WRHS's Calendar and the MOUNTAINEER newsletters for a year. Sustaining Membership brings you both publications and gives you the satisfaction of helping to aid the Society's historical activities.

Contributions are always welcome, and may be tax-deductible. We offer special works of art and other O&W-related items as premiums for donations to our Archives Fund - please ask for details. Reprints of some of our archival material, as well as original NYO&W paper goods and OBSERVER back issues, are offered in our Sales List. It's available for the asking.

Please come to one of our activities and meet our officers and members. We meet at 7:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month (except July, August and November) at the Senior Center at 65-70 West Main Street in Middletown, NY. A railroading program follows a short business meeting. Guests and prospective members are always welcome. In case of inclement weather the meeting will be postponed one week. Our annual banquet is held on a Saturday in November. But you don't have to be near Middletown to enjoy Society membership - our 750 members live in more than 35 states and several countries!

Our 2010 Calendar was put together by Bill Schneider using select negatives from the images in the Society's recently acquired Bob Collins negative collection.

These photos were taken by Bob between December 1935 and April of 1948. Bill also had the arduous task of scanning these 450+ negatives for the Archives.

The calendar pages were created by Bill using a multiple photos arranged in a collage so as to, in his words, " select a representative cross section of the photos - both in content and composition".

The O&WRHS website is located at OWRHS.org