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Erie And Trolley Co.
Fight Over Lines From Salamanca to Little Valley and BradfordErie Contends They are not Extensions but New Lines and will Take Matter Into the Courts – Hearing at Jamestown Before Chairman Stevens The Jamestown Post says: Chairman Frank W. Stevens of the public service commission conducted several hearings in his private office in the Fenton…
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Fireman May Die
Three Badly Hurt in Collision on the Lackawanna. Buffalo, Nor. 8.-Harry J. Tompkins, the fireman who was injured in the collision on the Lackawanna railroad last night near Fargo, is in a critical condition and may die. Both legs were so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. Others injured were: J. W. Heffern, express messenger,…
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1907 Inspection Report on the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch
Below is the 1907 inspection report of the New York State Public Service Commission of the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch of the Erie Railroad. The Buffalo and Southwestern branch is a single track road extending from a connection with the Buffalo Creek road at South Buffalo to a connection with the Meadville division at Waterboro,…
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1907 Inspection Report on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
Source: First Annual Report of the Public Service Commission, Second District, For the Six Months Ending December 31, 1907. Google Books.
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Joy in Wellsville
Erie Railroad Company is to Erect a Fine New Red Brick Passenger Station in That Lively Village This Fall. Erie officials have given out at Wellsville that a new passenger station, 30 x 150 feet, is to be erected in that village, the work to begin within a few weeks. There will be a long…
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Trolley and Traction Car Collision
Car No. 32, an open trolley car bound for Celoron ran into Chautauqua Traction car No. 104 nearly in front of the Standard Hotel at Celoron Sunday afternoon, and E. D. Walker of Jamestown quite badly injured by being thrown from the open car to the ground. Both cars were going toward Celoron and left…
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Several New Cars for Line Down River
A March 1907 newspaper article talking about the purchase of the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway by the Niagara Gorge Railroad and plans for new cars on the line. Source: Niagara Falls [NY] News, 27 March 1907, p. 1, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Chautauqua Traction Block System
The Chautauqua Traction Company is instituting the block system of running cars on the line for the safety of the public, as well as of the car equipment. There are 16 switches between Jamestown and Westfield, and at each switch is a telephone station. The block signals are located at each of these switches and…
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His Skull Fractured
A February 9, 1907 article about a man found in the snow by a train on the International Railway near Pendleton Center station. Source: Buffalo [NY] Express, 9 February 1907, Futonhistory.com
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1906 Inspection Report on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad / Pennsylvania Railroad
Below is the 1906 inspection report of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway, operated since 1900 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. From the introduction: On August 21, 22 and 23, 1906, I made an inspection of the lines of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway in this State and respectfully submit the following report…