New York Railroad Archive

Limestone, NY

A circa 1909 photo of the Erie Railroad station in Limestone, NY. J.E. Bailey photograph from the collection of Jim Hutzler. Found on RootsWeb.com.

Limestone, NY is a hamlet in southern Cattaraugus County just north of the Pennsylvania state line. Both the Erie Railroad and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway (BR&P) had stations in Limestone. The photo above shows the Erie station in the middle and the BR&P station the left of the photo.

Erie Railroad

A circa 1909 photo of the Erie Railroad station in Limestone, NY. J.E. Bailey photograph from the collection of Jim Hutzler. Found on RootsWeb.com.

Limestone was a station on the Erie Railroad’s Bradford branch from Salamanca to Bradford, PA.

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway

Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway passenger station in Limestone, NY. Photo from the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry. Virtual Historical Society page on Facebook.

The BR&P station shown above was built in 1909 and destroyed in 1921 when a derailed train crashed into the station, as shown below.

An April 1921 photo showing the aftermath of train derailment where a Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway (BR&P) crashed into the BR&P station in Limestone, NY. Photo posted to the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Ry. Virtual Historical Society group on Facebook.