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Steamburg, NY

A view of the track side of the Erie Railroad station in Steamburg, NY circa 1900. Steamtown National Historic Site archives, image #A-171.

Steamburg is a hamlet in Cattaraugus County and was a station on the Meadville line of the Erie Railroad between Salamanca and Jamestown. The passenger station was located on the south side of the tracks just east of NE May Road (formerly Depot Street). There were sidings off the main line for a milk plant on the south side of the tracks to the east of the station and a feed mill on the north side of the tracks.

Plan of the area around the Erie Railroad passenger/freight in Steamburg, NY. Erie Railroad Company, Office of the Divisional Engineer, Salamanca, NY.

History

The first railroad in Steamburg was the Atlantic and Great Western (A&GW) Railroad which arrived in August 1860. It was succeeded by the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (1880 – 1883), New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad(1883 – 1895), the Erie Railroad (1895 – 1960), the Erie Lackawanna Railroad (1960 – 1976) and Conrail (1976 – ).

This map shows the original routing of the Erie Railroad near Red House and Steamburg, NY (blue) and the route of the line when it was relocated in the mid-1960s (red). Author’s illustration from a USGS topographic map.

In the mid-1960s about ten miles of the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, formerly Erie Railroad, tracks between east of Red House and Steamburg were relocated as they ran through an area that would be flooded by the reservoir of the new Kinzua Dam.

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