New York, Ontario and Western Railway

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defunct railroad railroad company

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway was a regional railroad in the northeastern United States that primarily served upstate New York and parts of Pennsylvania, known for hauling coal and dairy products before its mid-20th-century abandonment.

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Label	Occurrences
New York, Ontario and Western Railway canonical	1
served by New York, Ontario and Western Railway	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defunct railroad ⓘ railroad company ⓘ
abbreviation	NYO&W NERFINISHED ⓘ O&W NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dateDissolved	1957 ⓘ
dateFounded	1880 ⓘ
endOfOperation	1957 ⓘ
gauge	standard gauge ⓘ
headquartersLocation	New York City ⓘ
knownFor	hauling coal from Pennsylvania fields ⓘ hauling dairy products from upstate New York ⓘ serving resort traffic to the Catskills ⓘ
mainCommodity	coal ⓘ dairy products ⓘ milk ⓘ
notableBranch	Delhi Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ Monticello Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ Scranton Branch NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFeature	one of the first major U.S. railroads abandoned in entirety ⓘ
operatingArea	New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ
predecessor	New York and Oswego Midland Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ
railroadClass	Class I railroad ⓘ
reasonForDecline	chronic unprofitability ⓘ competition from highways and trucks ⓘ loss of coal traffic ⓘ
region	Northeastern United States ⓘ
regulator	Interstate Commerce Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ
servedCity	Middletown, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Norwich, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Oneida, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Utica, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ
servedIndustry	coal mining ⓘ dairy farming ⓘ resort tourism ⓘ
servedRegion	Catskill Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Hudson Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Scranton, Pennsylvania area NERFINISHED ⓘ upstate New York ⓘ
startOfOperation	1880s ⓘ
status	abandoned ⓘ
successor	no direct successor railroad ⓘ
terminus	New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Oswego, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Weehawken, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ
trackGauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lehigh and Hudson River Railway → connectedTo → New York, Ontario and Western Railway ⓘ

Napanoch, New York → railroadHistory → New York, Ontario and Western Railway ⓘ

this entity surface form: served by New York, Ontario and Western Railway