Panama Traction Company
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Panama Rocks Company, Inc.
This October 1919 article discussed the purchase by the Panama Traction Company of the Panama Rocks tourist attraction. The traction company successfully operated the Rocks over the summer and purchased them as a destination on the planned line from Ashville to Panama. Source: Jamestown [NY] Evening Journal, 18 October 1919, p. 4, Fultonhistory.com
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Has Bought The Rails
Panama Traction Company Preparing to Build Line From Sugar Grove to Jamestown. The Panama Traction company has closed the contracts for the rails necessary for the construction of the ten miles of railroad line between Sugar Grove and Jamestown. It was announced today that work upon the grading of the line would commence as soon…
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Panama and Ashville R. R.
The construction of the first railroad in this state to be operated wholly by gasolene power is provided for in a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the up-state Public Service Commission to the Panama Traction Co., for a six mile line between Panama and Ashville, through a sparsely settled rural section of…
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Car Line to Panama Rocks
Work is progressing rapidly on the track-laying for the Ashville to Panama line of the Panama Traction Co. At the Ashville end of the proposed line, already nearly three miles of the grading is completed. Ties and track material are on hand, and actual laying of rails was started near Ashville. One bridge has been…