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One of the hallmarks of our Society is its members' publication, the Susquehanna Reflector. As we have grown from a railfan’s meet to an operating historic railroad operation, it has grown from a Xeroxed couple pages into a color magazine, but over those years, we have gained and lost many of our members.

            The Reflector is named after the original publication of the Susquehanna Railroad for its employees and, at times, has reprinted articles from the original publication.

Now, the Reflector is archived in electronic form so that all of our newer members can look back at previous issues, from the beginning, and follow our progress.

The Susquehanna Reflector is the intellectual property of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Technical & Historical Society, Inc. and is intended for limited distribution to Society members.

The Reflector is copyrighted © 1989-2018 and may not be reproduced without permission of the NYS&WT&HS as well as possibly individual writers and editors who contributed therein.

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1989           ARTICLES

1 1     Staten Island Railway – Busy Days at “DK” –

1 2              Franklin Lakes Memories

1990

2 1              NYS&W Inspection Trip, May 9, 1941 – Western Union on the NYS&W

2 2              Dispatching the DO Lines – Night Train Run: Hanford Branch – Newfoundland Shop Reopens

2 3              Society Weekend Report – Hanford Branch Revisited – The Form D

1991

2 4              Back to the Future – Freight Run at Old Green Pond – Susquehanna Seebees – Death of Hamburg Station

3 1              Extra 256 to Hainesburg (1) – Last Day of L&S Operation – Alco RS-1s - Pequannock Valley Memories

3 2              Extra 256 to Hainesburg (2) – original Susquehanna Outing – Railfanning Binghamton 

3 3              Odyssey of 4039 – 1:20 PM Passaic Jct Haul – Oddball Susquehanna Rolling Stock

1992

3 4              Susquehanna Outing – Modeling GP-18s – Operation Graffiti – Streamliners – Farewell Form G.P.A. 24

4 1              Butler Day Express and the April 8, 1966 Timetable

4 2              (marked Vol 2 No 3) Shops of Stroudsburg – John L. Treen – Maintaining a Restoration Facility

1993

4 3              Lodi Branch

4 4              Abandonment Proceedings of the Hanford Branch – Wayward Coach

5 1              Susquehanna Transfer Archival and Transcription – NYS&W Helped Thwart the U Boats – Day’s Work for a Trainman

1994          

5 2              Wilkes Barre & Eastern 100th Anniversary – Of Machine and Men

5 3              Corporate Structure – GP-18s, A Retrospective - Wilkes Barre & Eastern 100th Anniversary (2) – Modelling a Wig-Wag

5 4              Macopin Lake Railroad

5 5              Pompton Branch – Ramblings On About the Susie-Q – Jim Thorpe Dinner Train – Historic Mauch Chunk

1995

5 6              History of the TP&W – Flanged Wheels All The Way

6 1              Campgaw, Next Stop – Crossroads – How Many Trains Ran Through the Paulinskill Valley?

6 2              Mines of McAfee – Sinking to the Depths – Campgaw Revisited –

1996

6 3              New SD-70M’s

7 1             Syracuse Branch - NJT Unveils Passenger Plans – Newfoundland, Center Of The Railroad

7 2              The Branch Line Paragraph – Newfoundland Shops, 1974-1994 – Peoria, Next Stop - All Time Diesel Roster

7 3              SD-45s – (first appearance of) Reflector Reflections

1997

7 4              Ramblings About The Abandoned Wilkes Barre & Eastern

8 1              Modeling the B40-8 – Operation Lifesaver Summit – Cinders and Other Ashes

8 2              Some Susquehanna RR Workers – Maroon & Grey Days

1998

8 3              Susquehanna Century C-430s – Alcos – Fast Caboose

8 4              Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad

9 1              Suzy’s Doodlebugs – This Budd’s For Susie

9 2              In Praise of the Russian Decapod – Day On The Hanford Branch, 1940s – Steam on the Susquehanna – Firing the D&RG

1999

9 3              In The Track Of The Apollo – Road To Marathon – Railroad Snowplow Races Unchecked Through Town

2000

9 4              Sudden Disaster In The Five Mile Woods – Growing Up With NYS&W Experiences - Telegrapher & Music Man

10 1            Jersey City Erie Station – Trip In The Life – Hike With Bob Mohowski - Budd Semi-Centennial

10 2            Object Lesson On Railroading for Railroaders –Die Hard Commuter Out Of The Erie Era

10 3            Early Days of the DL&W at Jamesville – Newfoundland – Stories of the Susquehanna – Into the Passenger Era

2001

10-4            Syracuse Grade Separation – First Diesel on the NYS&W – Early Diesel Experience – Passenger Service as a Business

2002

11 1            Susquehanna and the Coal Yard – Hiking the Lackawanna Cutoff

2003

11 2            Bad Day on the Hanford Branch – The Station Agent Filmed at the Newfoundland Depot – Wronged Side of the Tracks?

11 3            NYS&W Picnic Trains – The Next Step, Historically Speaking – Test Run of #142

11 4            Tales of the Telegraph – Shared Assets in Northern New Jersey – Mistakes of a Young Railroad Telegraph Operator

2004

12 1            Head-On Collision at Cozy Lake Road – That Mournful Sound

2005

12 2            ACF Motorailers come to the NYSW in 1940

2006

12 3            Vacations Along The Susquehanna Railroad – Emgines of our Ingenuity, Railroading I Winter

2007

12 4            Rail Trails on the Susquehanna - #142 Gets Some New Parts

13 1            A History of the New York, Susquehanna and Western

2008

13 2            The Beaver Lake Washout

13 3            Ice and the Susquehanna Railroad

2009

13 4            The Susquehanna ALCO S-2 – The NYS&W Motive Power Study of Switching Road Locomotives

2010

14 1            Twenty Years of the New York, Susquehanna & Western Technical & Historical Society

14 2            A Day Out With Thomas

2011

14 3            Getting There and Being There

14 4            The NYS&W Snowplow

2012

15 1            The NYS&W In Paulina

2013

15 2            NYS&W’s EMD SD-60 Locomotives

15 3            Memories of Warbasse Junction

2014

15 4            Happenings at the Station

2015

15 5            (Marked as duplicate Vol 15 No 4) Spanning the Gap

2016

16 1            The New York, Susquehanna & Western Passaic Industrial Branch

16 2            NYS&W Caboose 0112 – He Built A Locomotive – The Edgewater Tunnel

2017

16 3            The Blair Trail

2018

16 3-2      NYS&W 141

2019  

16 4 Beaver Lake Station - Railroad Rules

2020

17.1 Corona Virus - Wayne Nilsen

2021

17.2 Build the Railroad, They Will Come

2022

17.3 The Station Edition


“Snow with a sunset”
Greg and Frank as usual!
Hank, Greg, Devin
John Oct. 29,2011
Don and Gary Oct. 29,2011
Oct. 29, 2011
Don C. working on 3254
Steaming into Mine Station
The moon over Easton from Lehigh Junction one cold winter night.
Easton Lights
The moon setting over Easton one cold winter night.
A rare shot of 142 departing Lehigh Junction on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Oct 29, 2011
A rare shot of 142 departing Lehigh Junction on a snowy Saturday afternoon. Oct 29, 2011
Greg Smokey Ruch
M-1 leaving Butler for Croxton, and eventually to Phillipsburg.
M-1 in Allentown Yard. 8-8-11 @ 4:30 PM
M-1 in Allentown Yard in the consist with other cars due to go up the Portland Secondary. 8-8-11 @ 4:30 PM.
M-1 in Allentown Yard. 8-8-11 @ 4:30 PM
M-1 in Allentown Yard. 8-8-11 @ 4:30 PM
M-1 in Allentown Yard. 8-8-11 @ 4:30 PM
The finished product. The bricks with curved ends are edge bricks.
Waiting for the bricks to set up.
Making bricks for 142's firebox. The material has the consistency of damp sand.
The plastic lining protects the mold and makes removing the finished bricks easier.
Even the molds to make the bricks had to be made in house.
Molds used to form the edge bricks.
NYSWTHS ANNUAL PICNIC & JULY MEETING
A little HELP here!
Clearing up the RofW!
KB & John
I wonder what's in here!
Easter Train 2011, look at all those eggs!!!
Easter Trains 2011
Catching up on Safety Rules!
Gary
Making sure Rule Books are up to date
What's my next class?
Are we done yet!
Stewie keeping an eye on Martin as he works on the gift car electric
Loving the ice!
Loving the seas!
Loving the slopes!
Loving the sand!
Looking beautiful, out in the sun for the first time!
All finished, with lettering applied.
Top coat on the opposite side of the car.
Finally the top coat has been applied!
The ends of the cars were painted black.
All primed and ready for a top coat.
The installation of new window gaskets was critical to the stabilization of the car.
The roof was completely sanded down, primed and a new silver paint applied.
Sanding and body work under way.
New window gaskets have been installed and body work is under way.
All done, the interior is complete.
The seats are being installed!
The carpet is installed and the seat frames are going back in!
A beautiful new commercial grade carpet is being installed.
The rotten sections have been replaced!
Removing and replacing the damaged portions of the floor.
The sub floor was rotten and needed to be removed and replaced. Water had been leaking in from the old window gaskets.
Here you can see the condition of the floor after the seats were removed.
The rubber floor needed to be removed!
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