New York Railroad Archive

Allegany Central Railroad

  • Thing of the Past

    —– Narrow-gauge Railroads of the Oil Country.—–Hidden By Under-Brush—–Little Left to Represent the Vast sums of MoneyInvested in this Enterprise—–Country StagesHave Taken the Place of Some of the Roads—–Special to the Buffalo Express. Bolivar, Jan. 29. – One of the most picturesque features of the Northern oil fields, the narrow-gauge railroads, will soon be a…

  • The Grand Narrow Gauge Gridiron of Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania

    Comparatively few of our readers are aware of the extent to which the narrow gauge railroad system of northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York has been carried, much less do they realize the extent of that system when pushed to perfection. Two interests, those of Erie and its allies, and the Buffalo, New York and…