Blasdell, NY

An early 1900s photo of the Erie Railroad station in Blasdell, NY. Hamburg Historical Society.

Blasdell is village in Erie County, NY. The Erie Railroad, Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, the Chautauqua Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway all had passenger stations near each other south of Lake Avenue as seen in the map below.

Map showing the locations of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad (B&S), Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (LS&MS), Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), and Erie Railroad (Erie) in Blasdell, NY. Author’s illustration from a 1909 map from Historic Map Works.

Erie Railroad

The Buffalo and Southwestern Branch of the Erie Railroad passed through Blasdell on its route between Jamestown and Buffalo. The Erie Railroad station was on the west side of the tracks just to the south of the point where the Nickel Plate and Pennsylvania Railroads crossed the Erie, as seen in the photo below.

A circa 1901 photo of an Erie Railroad train approaching the station in Blasdell, NY. Hamburg Historical Society.
The Erie Railroad station in Blasdell, NY. Hamburg Historical Society.
The Erie Railroad station in Blasdell, NY. Hamburg Historical Society.

Pennsylvania Railroad

Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive number 82 at the station in Blasdell, NY. Western New York Railway Historical Society.

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway

The Buffalo and State Line Railroad completed its line through Blasdell in February 1852. The line was later operated by the Buffalo and Erie Railroad (1857 – 1869), Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (1869 – 1877), New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (1877 – 1914), and New York Central Railroad (1914 – 1968).

Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad is shown on the map above, but I don’t have any photos of it.

Timetables