Below is the report filed by the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1897.
The report showed that the railroad owned five locomotives with four driving wheels – the same number of locomotives as listed in 1895 (I don’t have the 1896 report). In this 1897 report the railroad states that they purchased two new locomotives at a total cost of $1,397.66, so it appeared that they retired/sold two of their prior locomotives.
The railroad owned 11 first-class passenger cars, one second-class passenger car, two baggage, mail and express cars, one construction car and one flat car. The railroad reports that they purchased nine new passenger cars at a total cost of $15,380.64.
The railroad operated 21.17 miles of main line from Jamestown to Mayville Junction and had two branches, one from Mayville to Chautauqua Institution (2.68 miles) and one from Clifton to Falconer (3.46 miles).
Source: 15th Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1897, Volume II. Google Books.