Olean, NY
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Bolivar Breeze News Items On The Central New York and Western Railroad
The following is a collection of articles from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY about the Central New York and Western Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad. January 6, 1893 Engine 4, of the C.N.Y. & W. snapped a drive wheel tire in the yards here yesterday noon, and as…
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Articles About the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad
The following is a collection of short newspaper articles about the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad. These articles are from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY and were provided by Richard Palmer. October 1, 1892 The L.& S.W. Sold The Lackawanna & Southwestern railroad property was…
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1886 Inspection Report of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad
Below is an inspection report of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad from the 1886/1887 Annual Report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners, Volume 1. It details the results of an inspection of the railroad in October 1886. Note: The report refers to it as the “Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway” but…
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Gossip of “The Idler”
Speaking of a credit business, one thing is certain, somebody has got to do a tick trade when railroads keep their employes behind months. There is the Lackawanna & Pittsburgh, which has not given its workman a dollar in over five months. How can they pay in advance? But such treatment on the part of…
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Niagara Falls Excursion
The Buffalo Road will give their first electric light excursion of the season to the Niagara Falls, on Thursday, June 26, for the especial benefit of the towns along the Olean division from Kinzua to Olean. The fare for the round trip from Kinzua, Sugar Run, Corydon, and Onoville, is $2.00, West Run [note: This…
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A New Railroad
An Important Enterprise A very important new railroad enterprise has just been assured for Allegany county. It is no less than the extension of the Olean & Friendship narrow gauge to Belvidere, Angelica, Swains, Nunda and Mt. Morris – or near the latter point – where it will form an important connection with the extension…
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Early Railroad Profits
The Enormous Dividends of the Narrow Gauge Lines in the Bradford Oil Regions Soon after the great railroad purchase recently made by the Buffalo, Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company, attention was called to the enormous dividends which the narrow gauge railroads of the oil country were paying their stockholders. Through the courtesy of the Secretary…
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New Railroad Enterprise
When it was chartered by New York State, the New York and Erie Railroad was prohibited from running through other states or connecting to railroad in other states and was required to have its western terminus on Lake Erie. The railroad recognized that it would eventually need to expand westward and this 1852 article discusses…