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One Boy Killed and One Fatally Hurt
A December 24, 1902 newspaper article about a Pennsylvania Railroad train striking two boys who were crossing the tracks at Blakeley’s Crossing in East Aurora, NY. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 24 December 1902, p. 1. NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Abandonments
Following the abandonment of the Falconer branch of the Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie Railway comes the announcement that the Chautauqua Assembly branch of the road is to be practically abandoned during the winter, only two freight trains a week running over that block. Source: The Illustrated Buffalo Express, 26 October 1902, Fultonhistory.com
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1902 NYS Report on the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway
Below is the 1902 report of Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway to the New York State Railroad Commissioners for the period ending on June 30, 1902. The report summarized the condition of the company as: This company owns Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway Company. The status of the Jamestown, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Railway Company at date of this report…
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1902 NYS Report on the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway
Below is the report filed by the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1902. The report showed that the railroad owned two locomotives with four driving wheels, owned one with six driving wheels, and leased one with six driving wheels. It owned one first-class…
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1902 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 1902. The report lists the same two locomotives as in the previous year; one with six drivers and one with four. The list of rolling stock only included the 6 flat cars. The two flat…
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Reminiscences of the Atlantic & Great Western
Thirty Years Ago the Jamestown Freight Station Was an Insignificant Affair – Interviews With Veterans in the Service It was 30 years ago today that Frank S. Jones, ticket agent at the uptown office of the J. C. & L. E. railway and local freight manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad, began his career as a…
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Street Railway Companies Are Consolidated
This February 20, 1902 article describes the formation from the International Railway Company (IRC) from the merger of the Buffalo Railway Company, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, the Lockport and Olcott Railway, the Buffalo, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls Electric Railroad Company, the Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Railway…
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1902 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway
Attached below is a portion of the Annual Report of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for 1902 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. The report only covers the period to February 20, 1902, the date when the company, along with other electric railroads, was merged into the new International Railway…
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Killed by the Cars
YOUNG MAN MET DEATH AT WATTS FLATS Benjamin L. Blanchard the Victim of a Fatal Accident Some Time Monday Night — No One Saw the Accident and the Particulars Can Only Be Conjectured Sometime during Monday night Benjamin L. Blanchard, an 18-year-old boy, residing with his uncle, H. J. Lopus, about one mile south of…
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Trains Cut In Two
Two Firemen Injured — Three Freight Cars Smashed Rochester, Feb 17 – A freight train crossing from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg tracks to No. 3 track on the New York Central at Lincoln Park, was struck and cut in two by the eastbound Continental Limited on the West Shore. Both engineer and fireman on…