Winchester Station, NY
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Building of PRR Yard in Ebenezer
SOUTH SIDE CALLED SELFISH Becker Says Freight Yards In Houghton Park Would Aid Industry Opposition by South Buffalonians to a 32-track yard and repair shops, which the Pennsylvania railroad proposes to bulld in Indian Church road was characterized as selfish Saturday by Councilman Joseph W. Becker of the North district, who announced his intention of…
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Engine Sparks Set Fire and Destroy Station
Sparks from a locomotive set fire to a passenger station owned by the Pennsylvania railroad at Indian Church road and the city line shortly after 1:45 o’clock this morning. The station was destroyed and the damage is estimated at $500. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 22 April 1913, p. 1, Fulton History.
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Fatal! Freight Train Wrecks a Trolley Car Near South Buffalo
The article below from the Buffalo Evening News on May 29, 1896 described the collision between a trolley car from the Buffalo, Gardenville and Ebenezer Railway and a train of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad at the South Buffalo station. The railroad tracks, trolley tracks, and Indian Church Road, later Winchester Avenue, all…
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His Disastrous Nap
Christ Nagel of 229 Howard street fell asleep on the Western New York & Pennsylvania tracks near Winchester Station yesterday afternoon and a freight train came along. He was a pitiful sight when the Emergency ambulance took him away. His skull was fractured and will be [illegible] today. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 8 October…