1901 NYS Report on the Niagara Junction Railway

The report filed by the Niagara Junction Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for 1901.

The report lists two locomotives; one with six drivers and one with four. This is the first mention in these reports of locomotive with six drivers and may reference locomotive #1, a 0-6-0 locomotive purchased in late 1899. I don’t have a copy of the 1900 report and it may have been listed there.

The rolling stock remained the same: eight flat cars (6 in service) and eight dump cars (not in use).

It notes that the railroad had 12.77 miles of track, up from 11.94 miles in 1899. The report listed the same road crossings as in 1899: six unprotected road crossings, but added one highway crossed over grade. It listed the same one unprotected street railroad railroad crossing at grade.

Strangely it shows only one steam railroad crossed under grade rather the two under or over grade crossings of steam railroads previously listed. I suspect that this was a mistake or typo since it listed two railroads in all the other reports.

It also does not list the trestle over the Erie and New York Central Railroads on the list of bridges. Maybe the rules on what needed to be reported changed that year and they no longer had to report bridges over other railroad tracks.

Source: 19th Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1901, Volume II. Google Books.