New York Railroad Archive

Elberta, NY

Map showing the layout of the tracks around the New York Central Railroad station in Elberta, NY. Author’s illustration based on 1917 New York Central Railroad valuation map V-90/160 from the National Archives collection.

Elberta, also known as Elberta Corners, is a hamlet in the town of Wilson in Niagara County. It was a station on the Hojack Line operated by the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad and later the New York Central Railroad. 

The freight and passenger station was located on the north side of the tracks just to the northeast of the intersection of Braley and Randall Roads. The land where the station is located was deeded to the railroad in 1906 by Fred L. Bradley and wife with the condition that the railroad build a station and siding there.

History

The Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad (RW&O) completed construction of the line from Niagara Falls to Oswego in 1875. The RW&O operated the line until March 1891 when the company was leased to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. The line was operated by the New York Central (1891 – 1968), the Penn Central Railroad (1968 – 1976) and Conrail (1976 on). The line was redundant with others operated by Conrail and by the late 1970s the entire line between Oswego and Niagara Falls had been abandoned or, in a few cases, sold to smaller railroads to operate small sections.

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