Waterboro, NY is a hamlet on the far eastern edge of Chautauqua County east of Jamestown, NY. It was a location on the Erie Railroad‘s main line, originally the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, and the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch, originally the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad.
It is unclear if there was ever a passenger station in Waterboro, but it was listed on many Erie Railroad timetables because WO Tower in Waterboro was an important landmark along the line between Randolph and Kennedy, NY.
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- “Erie Equips Complete Division with Signals and Interlockers” Railway Signaling magazine, Volume 22, Number 9, September 1929. This article talks about Waterboro as part of the installation of automatic color signals along the section between Salamanca, NY and Meadville, PA.
Cover: Map showing the Erie Railroad’s main line (green) and Buffalo and Southwestern Branch (red) near Waterboro, NY. Author’s illustration from a 1905 topographic map.