The Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad Company was a short-lived (January 1881 to February 1883) railroad company. The company constructed two lines in New York Station.
The first was a line from Brocton to Buffalo in 1881/1882. Prior to building its own tracks, the railroad and its predecessors, including the Pittsburgh, Titusville & Buffalo Railway, ran over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway from Buffalo to Brocton where they connected to their own tracks.
During the same period, the company built a line from Oil City, PA to Salamanca, NY where it connected with the line the line from Salamanca to Olean that would be built by the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad in 1882/1883. This line would later be part of the Pennsylvania Railroad River Line.
History
On January 22, 1881 the Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway (Brocton to PA state line), the Salamanca, Bradford and Allegheny River Railroad Company of New York (Olean to Salamanca), and the Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railway in New York State and the Salamanca, Bradford and Allegheny River Railroad, and the Titusville and Oil City Railway in Pennsylvania merged to form the new Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad Company.
Almost two years later, on February 14, 1883, the Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western merged with the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway, the Olean and Salamanca Railroad, and the Oil City and Chicago Railroad Company (of April, 1882) to form the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. This was reorganized in late 1887 as the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.
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