Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway
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The Man in the Tower
January 1944 by Edward Hungerford They ran higgledy-piggledy over the western part of New York State . . . . When the Towerman was a newspaper reporter in Rochester years ago, he knew them all; the lordly Fall Brook, whose offices and shops were in Corning in the Southern Tier (since come to be one…
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The First Thirty Years of Our Railway
This is an article from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway employees magazine from December 1920. It is an interesting view of the history of the railroad, including its predecessors, including the Rochester and State Line Railroad, and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad. Source: Scan from Google Books.
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Le Roy Railroad History
The article below gives the question and answer about Le Roy, NY history from a high school contest in 1916. QUESTION 17. Give the present and past names of the four railroads of Le Roy and the year that trains were first run on each of them. Answer. The first railroad to ran a train…
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Passing of the Silver Lake Road
An article from the October 13, 1910 issue of the Wyoming County Times newspaper about the October 1, 1910 sale of the Silver Lake Railway to the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway. Passing of the Silver Lake Road Saturday, October 1st, the Silver Lake Railway Company passed into history when the property was taken possession…
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Trains Cut In Two
Two Firemen Injured — Three Freight Cars Smashed Rochester, Feb 17 – A freight train crossing from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg tracks to No. 3 track on the New York Central at Lincoln Park, was struck and cut in two by the eastbound Continental Limited on the West Shore. Both engineer and fireman on…