This overview of "downtown" East Branch, NY shows O&W Road (the slab of pavement to the right), which was also the right-of-way for the New York, Ontario, and Western RR. The decrepid white 3-story building seen in the distance was a hotel that at one time received scores of travellers who disembarked from O&W trains. The East Branch Station was located at approximately the same spot now occupied by the the red storage shed. The Delaware and Northern RR also interchanged with the O&W at this location. East Branch boasted a considerable straightaway for the O&W, and express passenger trains (as well as some freights!) could be counted on to really scorch the ballast while roaring through!

Photographed by Rich Kugel, March 15, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Rich Kugel, March 19, 2008.
Railroad: New York Ontario and Western.

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