These screenshots are from the 1940s Lehigh and Hudson River Railway route built by Richard Shirey for Microsoft Train Simulator (MSTS.  The "virtual" route set includes the L&HR line from Belvidere, New Jersey, with the railroad's connections with the DL&W and the Susquehanna, through to Maybrook, including portions of the O&W and Erie in the vicinity of Maybrook. To learn more about the route and MSTS, you can visit http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?t=287539&highlight=lehigh

The virtual O&W locomotives are created by Belenger Locomotive Works and are part of a set of locomotives and rolling stock representative of the railroads that served Maybrook yard including the O&W, L&HR, L&NE, Erie, NYC, New Haven. To learn more about the Maybrook set, you can visit http://www.valleypass.com/Sales/Maybrook.

 Walter Conklin

Screenshots by Jim Bebenroth

Special Thanks to Walter Conklin for coordinating this effort with the TrainSim community.

It is February, 1950 and O&W NE4 is making its way to Middletown. The tail end of the train is underneath the Erie Graham line

Another shot of O&W NE4 making the grade up to Middletown:

Later that evening, the same diehard photographer photographs O&W NE6, not far from where he took his first set of shots earlier in the morning:

Here we see another shot of the train slowly same crawling by Campbell Hall (CH) tower operated by the O&W:

The next morning, the photographer, baring the cold, catches this train goring by the O&W Campbell Hall station

It is a warm summer's evening in 1952 and the Old & Weary Cornwall Local has started working it's way back from Cornwall to Middletown. Before pulling out of Cornwall it had picked up several cars....

......and now the train is heading west towards Burnside.

About 15 minutes later our train is approaching Campbell Hall, the last station before Middletown and tieing up for the night.

The Burnside station agent has informed our engineer through the dispatcher as we passed Meadow Brook that L&HR train OA-1 had not dropped off any interchange cars when it had passed just before 6:30 so we have no work there.