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Three Men Killed
This article described the head-on collision of two Pennsylvania Railroad trains on the Buffalo line between Delevan and Lime Lake, NY. The wreck killed three men – a Fireman Frederick McCarthy, Engineer Frank Bedford, and Brakeman M. P. Cullinan, all of Buffalo. Source: The Wyoming County Herald, Arcade, NY, 29 July 1904, p. 1, NYS…
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Effects of Storm in Jamestown Area
Information is to the effect that the storm with severe lightning swept over the Lake Chautauqua district. Streams rose at an alarming rate and many country bridges were swept away. There was a washout on the Chautauqua Lake railway near Bemus Point, and the road bed of the Chautauqua Traction Company was badly damaged at…
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Chautauqua Traction Completed to Assembly Grounds
The last spike in the line of the Chautauqua Traction Co. to the Chautauqua Assemby grounds was driven at 1:45 P. m. Saturday in front of the depot at that place. The management of the company assures the public that cars will surely be running this week. Source: Cattaraugus [NY] Times, 30 June 1904, p.…
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1904 NYS Report on the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway
Below is the report of Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway to the New York State Railroad Commissioners for the period ending on June 30, 1904. During the year the company made improvements to the railroad, including widening cuts on the section between Mayville and Westfield, and purchasing a new snowplow, caboose, and spending $4,045.31 on a…
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1904 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, 1904. Equipment was unchanged from the previous year: the same two locomotives, one with six drivers and one with four, and six flat cars. It notes that the railroad had 13.77 miles…
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Last Spike Driven on Chautauqua Traction
The last spike was driven in the Chautauqua Traction line Saturday and a car passed over the entire route to Chautauqua during the day. Regular passenger service opens on July 1. Source: The Buffalo [NY] News, 27 June 1904, p. 16, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Bad Shawmut Wreck
Coal Train Ran Away Sunday Morning, This Side of Clermont.One Man Killed, 23 Cars Wrecked. A Shawmut Line coal train, consisting of mountain type engine, No. 53, 34 cars of coal, a car of lumber, a car of tile and a caboose ran away down the hill from Clermont, at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, and…
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B & S Spring Work
The Spring Work of Grading the Buffalo Extension Begun The first carload of material for the Buffalo extension of the B & S to arrive in Belmont came Wednesday. E.P. Lupfer, division engineer, was in town on B & S business and arranged to have a gang of men come from Belfast to unload the…
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Threw Bench at Trolley
LOCKPORT, March 22 – William Henry, while drunk Saturday night, threw a bench in front of a yellow car passing the Hodgeville station of the Buffalo & Lockport line and nearly caused a wreck. He had been put off of two cars for intoxication and took this means of revenge. He was fined $50 by…
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Fredonia Stormbound
FREDONIA, Feb. 4. – (Special). Business was practically at a standstill here all day yesterday because of the storm. The D. & F. trolley line was not opened clear through. All day yesterday the sweeper and teams and gangs of men struggled to open the road but the results of their work were spoiled by…