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1899 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 six month period ending June 30, 1899. This report is only six months because the company was formed on January 1, 1899 from the bankrupt Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway. The report showed that the…
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1899 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway
Attached below is a portion of the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Year 1899 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending…
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Locomotive Ordered
Th[e] Niagara Junction Railway company have placed an order with the Baldwin Locomotive company for one locomotive. Source: The Daily Cataract, Niagara Falls, NY, 23 June 1899, p. 5, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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1899 Inspection Report on the Central New York and Western Railroad
The following is an inspection report for the Central New York and Western Railroad done by the New York State Railroad Commissioners and included in their 1899 report. I have made a few changes (breaking one long paragraph into smaller ones) but the text is all original. CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WESTERN RAILROAD. (Inspected June…
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1899 Inspection Report on the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway
Below is the report of the June 1899 inspection of the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway, which was formed on January 1, 1899 from the former Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway. Note that the report incorrectly refers to it as the “Jamestown and Chautauqua Railroad.” Source: 17th Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of…
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Collision at Riverside Junction
This March 10, 1899 article talks about a freight train collision at Riverside Junction, NY, but doesn’t mention on which of the three railroads that pass through the junction it occurred. The Oil City Derrick, speaking of the engineer and brakeman who were injured in the freight collision at Riverside junction on Wednesday morning, says:…
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1899 NYS Report on the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway
Below is the report filed by the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the six months ending December 31, 1898. This report only covers six months because the company was foreclosed on and sold on November 1, 1898 and the new company, the Jamestown and Chautauqua Railway, started…
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Sunday Excursion to the Falls
The Central will run a cheap excursion to Niagara Falls on Sunday over the Peanut branch. Seventy-five cents will be the round-trip fare from all stations Canandaigua to Batavia, inclusive; 70 cents from East Pembroke and Pembroke; 65 cents from Falkirk; 60 cents from Akron. The train will leave Batavia at 9a. m, and, returning,…
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Olean and Rock City Tomorrow
There will be a large party from Buffalo tomorrow on the W. N. Y. & P. Ry. excursion to Olean and Rock City. The Special train leaves New York Central depot 9 A M., and will arrive at Olean 11 A. M., where open cars of the Olean, Rock City & Bradford Electric Railway will…
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1898 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Lockport Railway
The following is the 1898 report from the New York State Railroad Commissioners on the Buffalo and Lockport Railway. Source: Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Year 1898, Volume II. Found on Google Books.