Jamestown, NY
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Dolly Varden Passenger Train Makes Its Last Trip
The Dolly Varden passenger train making its last trip from Dunkirk to Titusville carried about 100 people. Hundreds of stations were filled with people to see the train go by. Claude Timmons, Conductor punches his last ticket. Dunkirk, 13 June 1937. Claude Timmons has punched his last passenger ticket as Conductor on the DAV&P Railroad.…
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Erie Equips Complete Division with Signals and Interlockers
This September 1929 article from the Railway Signaling magazine describes the installation of new signals and interlocking plants on the Erie Railroad‘s Meadville Line between Salamanca, NY and Meadville, PA.
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Has Bought The Rails
Panama Traction Company Preparing to Build Line From Sugar Grove to Jamestown. The Panama Traction company has closed the contracts for the rails necessary for the construction of the ten miles of railroad line between Sugar Grove and Jamestown. It was announced today that work upon the grading of the line would commence as soon…
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Settlement Not In Sight
A May 1913 article about the strike against the Chautauqua Traction company and Jamestown Street Railway company. This is too long of an article for me to retype and the scan is poor enough that the OCR software doesn’t do a good job so I won’t include the text of the article. Sorry! Source: Buffalo…
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New Trolley Line Now Seems Assured
Below is are two articles from the same date about a new trolley line from Hamburg to Falconer, NY. The line was never built. Believed That Work on Extension fromFalconer to Hamburg will be Commencedin Near Future – Right of WayNegotiations On. Falconer, Jan. 10 – During the past few days there has been much…
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Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y.
FORCES PLANTS TO CLOSE Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y. Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Exploding coal gas in the power plant of the Jamestown Street Railway company and the Jamestown Lighting and Power company set the building afire and caused damage estimated at $25,000. Traffic on the local street railway and the Chautauqua…
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New Timetable Effective
Source: Westfield [NY] Republican, 23 September 1908, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Reminiscences of the Atlantic & Great Western
Thirty Years Ago the Jamestown Freight Station Was an Insignificant Affair – Interviews With Veterans in the Service It was 30 years ago today that Frank S. Jones, ticket agent at the uptown office of the J. C. & L. E. railway and local freight manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad, began his career as a…
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Interlocking System
It is Being Installed at the Western End of the Erie Switch Yards The men who occupied the box car which was burned at the boatlanding Wednesday noon are machinists engaged on important work for the Erie railway company, instead of Italians as stated in The Journal of yesterday. For several weeks they have been…
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Fast Train on the N. Y., P. & O. R. R.
A new through express train, No. 8, from Chicago to New York, is now running over the N. Y., P. & O. R. R., passing Jamestown at 7:38 a. m. The train stops only at Corry and Jamestown on the eastern division, and makes the trip from Meadville to Salamanca in two hours and 45…