On exiting the helix onto the upper level the train crosses the Willowemoc River on a pair of truss bridges. (For some reason our intrepid photographer shot all southbound trains heading BACK in to the helix, but you get the idea...) At just about eye-level, this is one of my favorite train watching spots on the layout. The bridges are modified Vollmer kits. The river is made from Envirotex casting resin. A fisherman can be seen trying his luck in the waters below....

Once across these bridges the train curves around past the now abandoned O&W-designed ice house and the wye used to turn passenger trains. The ice house is a reminder of the milk traffic that helped keep the railroad going before WWII. This ice house and tool shed were scratch-built, but kits of both are now available from Branchline and Old & Weary Car Shop respectively.

Past the ice house the train enters the station area. The station was built from plans available from the O&W Society Archives Center.

Heller's feed mill sits next to the station. North of the station a small two track yard serves as a layover point for the passenger trains waiting to go back to New York. Behind the station is a Mobilgas station and row of stores. These are more scratchbuilt structures and fairly recent additions.

North of the station is the old Roscoe creamery. Like many of the buildings in Roscoe, this building was scracthbuilt based on old photos loaned to me by Wil Sipple of the Roscoe O&W Museum.

Northbound trains continue across bridge #151 at a popular fishing spot known as the "Junction Pool" where the Beaverkill and Willowemoc run together.

This is one of the spots that you can see evidence of the once double track main line, notice the empty half of the bridge abutments where the second span once was.

This bridge was built from modified Central Valley kits. North of here they run along the river before re-entering the helix.