Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway

  • Street Railway Companies Are Consolidated

    This February 20, 1902 article describes the formation from the International Railway Company (IRC) from the merger of the Buffalo Railway Company, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, the Lockport and Olcott Railway, the Buffalo, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls Electric Railroad Company, the Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Railway…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1902 Report

    Attached below is a portion of the Annual Report of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for 1902 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. The report only covers the period to February 20, 1902, the date when the company, along with other electric railroads, was merged into the new International Railway…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1901 Report

    Attached below is a portion of the Annual Report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners for 1901 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for 1901, Volume II, p. 897. Found on Google Books.

  • Abandonment of Part of Route

    This portion of the report of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners approved the Buffalo, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls Electric Railroad to abandon a portion of its line in Tonawanda and North Tonawanda because they had negotiated the right to run over the tracks of the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, and the Crosstown Street Railway Company of Buffalo. Source: Eighteenth…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1899 Report

    Attached below is a portion of the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Year 1899 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1898 Report

    The portion of the Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June…

  • Electric Railways of the Niagara River Region

    This long October 1897 article talks about the facilities, equipment and operation of a number of electric railways operating around Buffalo and Niagara Falls NY. The railroads mentioned include the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Williamsville Electric Railway, the Buffalo, Bellevue and Lancaster Railway, the Buffalo, Gardenville and Ebenezer Railway, the…

  • Brill Cars in Buffalo and Vicinity

    This two-page article from the October 1897 issue of the “Street Railway Journal” discusses different cars produced by the J. G. Brill Company on electric railway companies in and around Buffalo, NY. This includes the Buffalo Railway, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo, Bellevue and Lancaster Railway, the Niagara Falls and Lewiston…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1897 Report

    The portion of the Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June…

  • Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway 1895 Report

    Source: Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1885, Volume 2.