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1898 NYS Report on the Niagara Junction Railway
The report filed by the Niagara Junction Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for 1898. The report lists the same equipment as in previous years: 2 locomotives with four driving wheels, 8 flat cars, and 8 dump cars. It notes that the railroad had 10.14 miles of track and listed no…
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1898 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 year ending June 30, 1898. The report showed that the railroad owned five locomotives with four driving wheels, 11 first-class passenger cars, one second-class passenger car, two baggage, mail and express cars, and one…
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1898 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway
The portion of the Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897 describing the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway. Source: Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the fiscal year ended June…
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Her Own Fault
Nobody Held Responsible For the Killing of Sarah F. Drudge at Gunnville. Coroner Kenney today rendered his verdict in the case of Sarah F. Drudge, an unmarried woman, 45 years old, who was struck and killed by a West Shore train at the station of Gunnville in the town of Clarence on June 1. The…
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1898 Inspection Report: Silver Lake Railway
The 1898 report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners included the following inspection of the Silver Lake Railway SILVER LAKE RAILWAY. (Inspected May 19, 1898.) The Silver Lake Railway extends from Silver Springs, on the line of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway and Erie Railroad, to Perry, a distance of 6.86 miles . The…
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After Twenty-Seven Years
This article discusses the arrival of the first Erie and Central New York train in Cincinnatus and the long history of the effort to secure that railroad connection. Source: Oxford [NY] Times, 3 May 1898, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Sunday Trains on the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway
On Sunday, March 20th, the Jamestown & Lake Erie will begin to run Sunday trains between Jamestown and Mayville. And as soon as the roadbed to Chautauqua can be repaired trains will be run to that point. Source: Buffalo [NY] Express, 17 March 1898, Fultonhistory.com.
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Memories of the Erie
Note: The following is a transcription of the memoirs of Sheridan Gorton Latta. They are reproduced with permission from “The Latta Genealogy Newsletter.“ On April 1, 1887, I began working as Baggage Master on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, at Friendship, NY, under George W. Fries, Station Agent. I had improved in…
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Thing of the Past
—– Narrow-gauge Railroads of the Oil Country.—–Hidden By Under-Brush—–Little Left to Represent the Vast sums of MoneyInvested in this Enterprise—–Country StagesHave Taken the Place of Some of the Roads—–Special to the Buffalo Express. Bolivar, Jan. 29. – One of the most picturesque features of the Northern oil fields, the narrow-gauge railroads, will soon be a…
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Trolley Freight Service
The one-page article from November 26, 1897 issue of The Railway Age magazine is a good description of the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway and its freight-hauling electric motor car. Source: The Railway Age, 26 November 1897, p. 967. Found on Google Books.