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Erie Freight Wrecks on Creek Bridge
An Erie freight train roaring across the Cattaraugus Creek bridge about 12:40 a.m. Wednesday morning was derailed from an undetermined cause, piling up 63 freight cars, about half of which were scattered along the bank or dumped into the stream. No one was reported injured. The pictures above, taken by Al McDonald, early Wednesday morning…
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Freight Wreck Loss Put at $250,000
SHATTERED CARS PILED 40 FEET DEEPIN VALLEY OF CATTARAUGUS CREEK 64 Leave Track, Rip Out Two Trestles Of Bridge;Debris Is Strewn for Quarter of a Mile By Jack West Buffalo Evening News Staff Reporter GOWANDA, Oct. 12 – The valley of Cattaraugus Creek was filled 40 feet deep with shattered freight cars in the spectacular…
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Burned Out Journal On Erie Freight Is Cause For Delay
The Erie Railroad River Line was blocked at North Cuba for more than four hours Monday morning when a journal on a refrigerator car burned out and caused the car to leave the rails. The car was part of westbound freight No. 191. The accident occurred about seven thirty o’clock and the line was cleared…
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Okay Abandoning of Youngstown, Lewiston Railway
The Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway today had permission of the Interstate Commerce commission to abandon its six-mile line between Youngstown and Lewiston. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington said the ICC authorized the move yesterday. Wilbur H. Shumaker, president of the Youngstown Cold Storage company, owner of the line, said today that final permission…
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New York Central Railroad Timetable – July 18, 1948
A July 18, 1948 system timetable for the New York Central Railroad. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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1945 History of the Buffalo and Washington Railway
The pages are an excerpt from a 1945 report entitled “THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY – Corporate, Financial and Construction History of Lines Owned, Operated and Controlled To December 31, 1945”. It provides some interesting facts about the Buffalo and Washington Railway. Source: “THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY – Corporate, Financial and Construction History of Lines Owned,…
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The Man in the Tower
January 1944 by Edward Hungerford They ran higgledy-piggledy over the western part of New York State . . . . When the Towerman was a newspaper reporter in Rochester years ago, he knew them all; the lordly Fall Brook, whose offices and shops were in Corning in the Southern Tier (since come to be one…
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Building of Pennsylvania Railroad Line Through Yates…
The following (long) 1941 article by Donald Disbrow recounts the history of the Elmira Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Note that there are a few errors and areas requiring clarification in the article: Source: Chronicle-Express, Penn Yan, NY, 30 January 1941, p. 1. NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Riceville Station Building Will Be Removed
Albany, Feb. 28-The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has been authorized by the Public Service Commission to remove its station building at Riceville in Cattaraugus County. The testimony presented at a hearing before the Commission showed that there has been no passenger business at the station since 1932 and that during the years 1938 and…
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Niagara Junction Railway Has New Engine House and Commodious Service Building
Buildings and New Trackage Provided at Cost of $132,000; Will Greatly Facilitate Service to Up-River Industrial Plants CONSTRUCTION of a new engine house and service building, together with all necessary trackage, to provide for the concentration of the operation and maintenance work of the Niagara Junction Railway company, the electric railroad which gives freight switching service to the upriver industrial establishments, was…