Red House is a town in Cattaraugus County that had a passenger and freight station and signal tower for the Erie Railroad and a passenger station on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Erie Railroad

The Erie Railroad had a small combination tower and station. This tower controlled traffic between the eastbound and westbound mains which separated and converged again at Steamburg to the west. The separation between the tracks is clearly seen on the topographic map below.

The tower portion of Red House station is separate from the RH Tower, which was located to the west of Steamburg and was the eastern end of an 11-mile section of single-track mainline running through Randolph to Waterboro.

It is unclear when the station was originally constructed, but an 1870 inventory of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad listed the station in Red House as “Passenger and freight house in one building, 18×68, frame good but unpainted” and listed a water tower and 10×12 foot handcar shed at the same location.

Few trains stopped in Red House and by December 1935 it no longer appeared as a station on Erie Railroad passenger timetables.

Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania railroad station was on the railroad line along the south bank of the Allegheny River that started in Olean and passed through Salamanca. The line was first constructed 1882 or 1883 by the Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western Railroad and was operated by the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway / Railroad (1882 – 1887), Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Railway (1887 to 1900), and the Pennsylvania Railroad (1900 – 1962). The line was authorized for abandonment in 1962 to allow for the construction of the Kinzua Reservoir on the Allegheny River.

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