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Landslide on Erie Near Cattaraugus
Engine of Train Plowed into Mass ofEarth off Track – Damage to One Coach Dunkirk, Jan. 9 – While an incoming passenger train on the Erie railroad was running along near Cattaraugus yesterday morning, the engineer saw something across the track which he took to be a big snowdrift. When the engine went plowing into…
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Nickel Plate Customers in Westfield, NY – 1913
A 1913-1914 Nickel Plate Road Shippers’ Guide listed the following customers in Westfield: Note 1: Private Siding on line N. Y., C. & St. L. R. R. Note 2: Private Siding on line of some other road, but which can be reached by switching from N. Y., C. & St. L. R. R.
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Mayer’s Faith in B. & L. E. Not Shaken
Says Traction Company Was Not Organized by Sheehan and Himself. “I have faith in this property and the territory it serves,” declared Joseph B. Mayer of New York, who is here today, in speaking of the re-organization of the Buffalo & Lake Erie Traction company, “and I believe the securities of the company will eventually…
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J. C. & L. E. News
Traffic Manager W. P. Smith, of the Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie Railway, has been called to New York to confer with Receiver George Bullock and the other officials there, concerning a proposed change of timecard, by which the morning train taken off a week ago may be restored and the United States mail service…
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DL&W Wreck at Leicester
Seventeen freight cars were piled upon the Lackawanna tracks at Leicester on Monday. It took the wrecking crew four hours to open traffic. Source: The Dansville [NY] Express, 12 September 1912, p. 3. NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y.
FORCES PLANTS TO CLOSE Fire Destroys Power House at Jamestown, N. Y. Jamestown, N. Y., Aug. 12.—Exploding coal gas in the power plant of the Jamestown Street Railway company and the Jamestown Lighting and Power company set the building afire and caused damage estimated at $25,000. Traffic on the local street railway and the Chautauqua…
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New J., C. & L. E. Timetable
One Additional Train Daily in Each Direction is Provided for in the Summer Schedule. The new timetable on the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie railway went into effect last Monday, with one additional train daily in each direction. Trains leave Jamestown now at 8:10 and 10:40 a. m., and 1:25, 4:25 and 5:45 p. m…
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Big Power Plant
Olean. – Contractors have begun to figure on plans and specifications for the new $250,000 power plant of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company. It will be located on Fifteenth and Irving streets just south of the original Olean Rock City & Bradford Car Line, The building will have a frontage of 176…
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New Equipment on J. C. & L. E.
The equipment of the Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie railway is being increased steadily. On Thursday night a new freight locomotive arrived from Chicago, and another freight locomotive will be started from Chicago for the same destination Saturday. Source: Westfield Republican, 8 May 1912, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Motor Cars on the J. C. & L. E.
WILL RUN EVERY HOUR Jamestown, April 18.—Tbe McKean gasolene motor car, ordered by the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie railway from the makers at Omaha, Neb., has arrived here. The car is 55 feet in length, with an engine of 200 horsepower, and, together with the Viele car brought here from Warren, Pa., some time…