Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad

  • Poor’s Report: BNY&P Railroad – 1885

    The PDF below is the section of the 1885 Poor’s Manual of Railroads report on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad for 1885. Below is an excerpt with the history of the company: In 1853 the Buffalo and Allegheny RR. Co. was chartered to build a line from Buffalo to Yorkshire, N. Y., 40…

  • Suggestions for a Route to Connect the Cross-Cut and Buffalo & Jamestown Roads

    This 1874 letter to the editor suggests the construction of a railroad to connect the Cross-Cut Railroad (a reference to the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Rail Road Company) and the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad. This planning does not appear to have gotten any further than this letter as there was no record of this route…

  • Poor’s Report: Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad – 1868

    This is the information from the 1868 edition of the Poor’s Railroad Manual of the United States on the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Railroad, which was formerly the Buffalo and Oil Creek Cross-Cut Railroad and eventually became part of the Chautauqua Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Source: Poor’s Manual of the Railroads. 1868.