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Nickel Plate Customers in Westfield, NY – 1913
A 1913-1914 Nickel Plate Road Shippers’ Guide listed the following customers in Westfield: Note 1: Private Siding on line N. Y., C. & St. L. R. R. Note 2: Private Siding on line of some other road, but which can be reached by switching from N. Y., C. & St. L. R. R.
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Moon’s Station
Between Sinclairville and Frewsburg the train went right past a station called Moon. The station and a couple of farm houses were all there was to be seen but it was right there that E. C. Moon, general manager of the Lake Shore Railroad, originated, and he worked as telegraph operator in that same building.…
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Niagara Junction Railway 1903 NYS Report
Below is the report filed by the Niagara Junction Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1903. Equipment was unchanged from the previous year: the same two locomotives, one with six drivers and one with four, and six flat cars. It notes that the railroad had 13.81 miles…
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The New Road
NIAGARA JUNCTION RAILWAY CO. INCORPORATED AT ALBANY. List of the Incorporators Capital Stock – Description of Road – Will Be Five and a Half Miles Long – Standard Guage – Construction to Commence at Once. The Niagara Junction Railway Company was incorporated yesterday. This is the road which the Cataract Construction Company intends to erect…
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Attacked By Tramps
An article about three tramps who attacked a New York Central Railroad train near Middleport, NY. Source: Orleans Republican, Albion, NY, 1 August 1888, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Poor’s Railroad Manual – 1871-1872
Source: Google Books
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The Railroad War at Chenango Forks
This is another article about the efforts of the Smithville Railroad to claim the land surveyed by the Greene Railroad after stealing the maps of the route and filing them as their own. Source: Chenango [NY] American, 12 May 1870, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Poor’s Railroad Manual – 1870-1871
Source: Google Books.
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Poor’s Railroad Manual – 1868-1869
Source: Google Books