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Plans for Third of Erie’s Cut-Offs
PLANS FOR THIRD OF ERIE’S CUT-OFFS.Double Track to Be Laid From Kennedy, N. Y., to Corry, Pa. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 2.—Arrangements were perfected today for the third of the systems of cut-offs on the Erie railroad designed to reduce the grades as near to water level as possible. This calls for the…
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Rail Laying Halted at the big Gorge at Rushford
This is an article about a delay at Rushford in the laying of the track of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad between Wellsville and Buffalo. Source: Belmont Dispatch. Belmont, NY. July 28, 1905.
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1905 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, 1905. The report listed the same two locomotives, one with six drivers and one with four, as in previous years. This year the report showed four flat cars, a decrease from the…
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Resort at Hog’s Back
A dispatch from Mayville says:“It was stated on good authority here recently that the Chautauqua Traction route to Westfield will be over the Portage Road most of the way from Westfield. This will reach the Hog’s Back which may be made an excursion point and also be the shortest as well as the most thickly…
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Rushing Work On B. & S.
An article about the progress building the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad expansion from Wellsville to Buffalo, NY. Source: The Whitesville [NY] News, 23 March 1905, p. 1, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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1905 Poor’s Report on the Olean, Rock City and Bradford Railroad
Source: Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States, Thirty-Eighth Annual Number, 1905. Google Books.
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Chautauqua Traction Crash
This crash occurred the day before the line between Lakeville and Mayville was officially opened. In a collision between two trolley cars of the Chautauqua Traction company near Point Victoria yesterday, Conductor Fred Sellstrom and Motorman John Smedberg were badly bruised and the fronts of the care smashed to kindling wood. Source: The Olean [NY]…
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Mayville and Jamestown Are Now Connected
Completion of Chautauqua Traction Company’s New Line Matter of Much Rejoicing MAYVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 31 –The Chautauqua Traction Company‘s new line between Mayville and Jamestown will be opened tomorrow. In commemoration of the event, so long desired by this village, and so eagerly welcomed, a theater party leaves here tomorrow night at 6 o’clock, returning…
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The B&S System
Review of Work and Plans of The Enterprising Goodyears Still Another Extension of The Road From Elmira to DuBois, Pa., No Doubt But The Goodyears Will Make Their Road Prominent A railroad, up to date in every way is to be constructed from Elmira to DuBois, PA. The Goodyears of Buffalo are back of this…
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New Stations on Chautauqua Traction
The Chautauqua Traction Company is planning to build two new trolley stations this fall. They will be of brick and work on them will be commenced this week. One will be at Ashville and the other will be at Cheney’s Point. Room will be made in them for the string of baggage as well as…