This section of the Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1888, Volume 1, describes the complaint of the town and village of Lewiston against the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. The argument was that the town and village had issued bonds in 1867 to purchase stock in the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad with the promise that the railroad would have its western terminus in Lewiston, where it would build shops and construct a bridge over the Niagara River to connect with the Great Northern Railway. In 1875 the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, who was a successor of the bankrupt Lake Ontario Shore Railroad, built a line from east of Lewiston to Suspension Bridge (Niagara Falls), bypassing the village and eliminating its shops and turntable.
Source: 6th Annual Report Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1888, Volume 1. Google Books.