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1906 Inspection Report on the Silver Lake Railway
The 1906 annual report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners included the following inspection report for the Silver Lake Railway. SILVER LAKE RAILWAY, ( Inspected July 24, 1906. ) On July 24, 1906, I made an inspection of the Silver Lake Railway, and respectfully submit the following report : The Silver Lake Railway is…
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Mammoth Trolley System
Bradford, Pa., Nov. 21- This city will soon be the terminal of a large trolley system maintained and operated by the Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company, a corporation recently formed in New York State. The capital stock is $2,000,000. The traction company has absorbed the former lines of the Olean Street Railway Company,…
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1906 NYS Report on the Niagara Junction Railway
Below is the report filed by the Niagara Junction Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1906. The report listed the same two locomotives, one with six drivers and one with four, and the same four flat cars as in previous years. It notes that the railroad had…
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Electric Railway Consolidation
This long article talks about the consolidation of the Olean Street Railway, the Olean, Rock City and Bradford Railroad and Bradford Street Railway to form the Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company. Source: The Olean [NY] Democrat, 1 June 1906, p. 8, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Suburban Trolley Changes Hands
Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 3 February 1906, p. 26, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Erie Contracts for Columbus & Erie Railroad
A December 1905 article about the Erie Railroad awarding contracts to reroute part of the Meadville line in Chautauqua County and to build the Columbus and Erie Railroad. The article wrongly located Niobe in Pennsylvania; it is just north of the New York/Pennsylvania state line. —The Erie Railway company awarded contracts for the construction of…
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Buffalo and Susquehanna Construction
The rails on the B. & S. road are laid from Alum Rock to Sandusky and the roadbed is being ballasted and put into fine shape. The big fill at Sandusky is nearing completion, and the bridges at Sandusky and Alum Rock will be put into shape as soon as the iron workers strike is…
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Trolleys in a Crash
Rear End Collision Near Stow, Pa. Causes Injury to Five Corry. Pa,. Oct. 21.—A rear-end collision took place on the Chautauqua Traction Company’s line near Stow last night and five people were injured. They are W. R. Webber, motorman, Edward F. Stone of Buffalo, Mrs. Jessie Diamond of Jamestown, J. F. Hughes of Pittsburg, Fred…
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Train Wreck at Jamison Road
A freight wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad near Jamison Road this morning. The morning local from Buffalo was two hours late, The flyer was about 50 minutes late. Source: Olean [NY] Herald, 19 October 1905, p. 9, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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1905 Inspection Report: Niagara Junction Railway
Below is the report of an inspection performed by the New York State Railroad Commissioners of the Niagara Junction Railway on September 4, 1905. Source: 23nd Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, 1905, Volume I. Google Books.