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1897 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 1897. The report lists the same equipment as in previous years: 2 locomotives with four driving wheels, 8 flat cars, and 8 dump cars, now marked as unserviceable. It notes that the railroad built .8 miles of…
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To Buy Railroad Lands
The Olean, Rock City & Bradford Railroad Company wants to take lands of the Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad Company by condemnation proceedings. This morning, on the application of attorneys for the company, Justice White sitting in Special Term, appointed J. R. Jewell, S. N. Wood and J. K. Van Campe commissioners to appraise the…
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Olean, Rock City & Bradford Car Barns
The iron arrived yesterday for the Olean, Rock City & Bradford Electric railway‘s car barns to be erected at the foot of Irving street near the Pierce tannery. Source: Olean [NY] Herald, 29 April 1897, p. 5, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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South Vandalia and State Line Railroad Charter
The notice below authorizing the establishment of the South Vandalia and State Line Railroad appeared in the 1897 Report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners. Source: 15th Annual Report of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioner, 1897/1898: Volume 1. Google Books.
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Construction of the Olean, Rock City & Bradford
The Olean, Rock City & Bradford electric railway is in course of construction. Ties have been distributed along the proposed route and from present indications the road will be open for traffic in June. Source: Bolivar [NY] Breeze, 19 March 1897, p. 8, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Olean, Rock City & Bradford
ALBANY. Feb. 27 – The Olean, Rock City & Bradford Railroad Company was incorporated yesterday, with a capital stock of $110,000 to operate a road 11 miles long from a point in the town of Olean, along the line heretofore occupied by the Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad Company to the State line in Cattaraugus…
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It Is All Talk
Nothing Settled Yet In Regard to the Olean Bradford Trolley Line. The Buffalo Express says: “Since the practical abandonment by the Western New York & Pennsylvania railway of its Olean, Warren & Bradford narrow gauge system several months ago, various rumors have been afloat in regard to the ultimate disposition of the property. The street…
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The Lewiston Trolley Road
A September 23, 1896 article from “The Electrical Engineer” magazine about the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway. I have pulled these pages from a larger PDF and blanked out other articles to make it easier to read. Source: The Electrical Engineer, 23 September 1896, p. 296. Found on Google Books.
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Jamestown and Lake Erie Extension
The Jamestown and Lake Erie extension to Falconer is being built under much embarrassment. Some time ago the weight of the embankment near Clifton caused the track to settle so much as to stop traffic for a day or two. The damage was repaired, but the difficulty is more serious than before. The pressure upon…
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Another Frontier Railroad
The New Electric Line From Lewiston to Youngstown Formally Opened to the Public The Lewiston, Youngstown & Frontier Railroad, extending from Lewiston to Youngstown, was formally opened to the public yesterday afternoon, The road, though operated by a different company, is really a continuation of the Niagara-Lewiston road, better known as the Gorge route, which…