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The OWCS will be producing an assortment of line side structures and other railroad buildings. As these items are being developed we will add their information too this page.

Old & Weary ~ Lineside Structures

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Swartswood Jct. In HO Scale

Another Fine Laser Cut Wood Kit In HO Scale. Easy To Assemble, Highly Detailed

Here is a bit of the history surrounding “JU Cabin” This overview was written by our good friend and railroad Historian, Robert E. Mohowski

New York, Susquehanna & Western’s Swartswood Junction Operator’s Office
The most remote location on the NYS&W Railroad in New Jersey was “JU” cabin (telegraph call letters for Swartswood JUnction) located two miles from the rural Sussex County hamlet of Swartswood. The reason for placing an operator here was to issue dispatchers’ instructions to train crews of the NYS&W and Lehigh & New England Railroads. Both companies used the Susquehanna’s single track line for 18 miles between Swartswood Jct. and Hainesburg Jct. The NYS&W received track rental income for providing a route for the LNE, which moved a large tonnage of anthracite, cement and boxcar freight into New England via the Maybrook Yard and the New Haven Railroad. Neither NYS&W nor the LNE had an automatic block signal system to protect movements over the joint track so train orders and manual blocking protection were provided to move trains safely. The operator at JU also handled the junction switch for approaching trains when he knew they were not going to be stopped but engineers always approached this location slowly expecting to find other trains ahead of them.
    A train order signal controlled NYS&W movement and a second one may have been used for the LNE. Later, yellow and red flags were used to signal the presence of orders for LNE trains. A yellow signal or flag meant the order(s) could be passed up to the train while it moved slowly past the operator. Red indicated that the train had to stop and the order(s) had to be signed for in the manner of receiving registered mail.

The little cabin was originally located in the angle of the two railroads. Sometime in the 1920s or ‘30s, it was moved west to be closer to the junction switch. It is likely that the NYS&W accomplished the move by shifting the structure onto the track and pulling it with a locomotive to the new site. The building belonged to the NYS&W but the LNE had its own sign, “Swartswood Jct.” on the structure.
The abandonment of the LNE in 1961 ended the need for a operator here and the NYS&W terminated service the following year. At the time of this writing, (2004) remnants of the building still stand next to Junction Road, Swartswood alongside what is now the recreational Paulinskill Valley Trail, a property  of New Jersey’s Kittatinny Valley State Park. RM

S-130 Swartswood Jct. Qty: Price: $29.95

Laser Cut Wood Kits In HO Scale. Easy To Assemble, Highly Detailed

Crossing Shanty, Tool House and Handcar Shed IN STOCK!

S-101 Crossing Shanty One Per Package $8.95

S-101 Crossing Shanty Single Qty: Price: $8.95

 

S-102 Crossing Shanty Six Per Package $47.95
S-102 Crossing Shanty 6 Pack Qty: Price: $47.95

S-103 Motor Car Shed One per Package $11.95
S-103 Motor Car Shed Single Qty: Price: $11.95


S-104 Motor Car Shed Three per Package $32.95
S-104 Motor Car Shed 3 pack Qty: Price: $32.95

 

S-106 Tool House (Version I) One Per Package $11.95
S-106 Tool House Version I Single Qty: Price: $11.95


S-107 Tool House (Version I) Three Per Package $32.95

S-107 Tool House Version I 3 Pack Qty: Price: $32.95

S-110 Sample Pack One Each of S-101Crossing Shanty, S-103 Motor Car Shed
and S-106 Tool House $29.95

S-110 Sample Pack 101, 103, 106 Qty: Price: $29.95

Coming Soon!

HO Scale Interlocking Towers
Four, 2 different Five Window And An Eight Window Versions
Price TBA

In O Scale

We are working on the Crossing Shanty, Tool House and Motor Car Shed
for Fall 2005 delivery


There is many more items on the drawing board. keep an eye on this page.

Creative Model Associates

CMA-1007 HO Scale Milk Station kit (based on an O&W prototype).....................................$9.95
CMA-1007 Milk Station Qty: Price: $9.95


CMA-1022 Diamond Style Crossing Sign (10 per pack).........................................................$4.95
CMA-1022 Diamond Style Crossing Sign Qty: Price: $4.95

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