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New Cars for the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway
The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railroad Company received Tuesday two of the six new electric motor cars ordered some time ago from the factory of the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia. They are open cars, about 22 feet long, with eight seats arranged cross- wise. They are painted a wine color handsomely finished. The…
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Tracks Sink In the Swamp
Jamestown, Aug. 7,- The swamp along the outlet of Chautauqua lake is covered by a thin crust of earth. A pole, sharpened at one end, can easily be pushed down a number or feet. The Jamestown & Lake Erie railroad is raising its tracks. The earth used for filing in became so heavy on Wednesday…
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Cars Will Be Running August 1st
The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railway Company contemplate operating trolley cars on that portion of their road running through the village of Lewiston on Wednesday next. R. B. Goodman, formerly associated with Chief Engineer George A. Ricker of the Gorge road as assistant engineer, has been appointed superintendent of the new road, and assumed the…
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The Olean-Bradford Narrow Gauge
The Olean, Bradford & Warren narrow gauge railroad of the Western New York & Pennsylvania system was to have been abandoned this summer but the railway officials have decided to modify their previous determination to abandon the road entirely, and for a short time, at least, will keep it open, running one train a day…
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Fatal! Freight Train Wrecks a Trolley Car Near South Buffalo
The article below from the Buffalo Evening News on May 29, 1896 described the collision between a trolley car from the Buffalo, Gardenville and Ebenezer Railway and a train of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad at the South Buffalo station. The railroad tracks, trolley tracks, and Indian Church Road, later Winchester Avenue, all…
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Progress on the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway
A force of about 75 men began work on the Lewiston and Youngstown railroad Monday last near the New York Central freight depot at Lewiston. The Youngstown Frontier Railway Company has purchased the “Beals Grove” on the bank of Lake Ontario from Pierce and Philipot for $11,000. This will probably be the northern terminus of…
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Model City Railroad
Model City-The route for the new Model City railroad begins at Ontario Boulevard and runs westerly through the alley between Broadway and Niagara Ave. one and one half miles, thence southerly for a half a mile, striking a point near the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg railroad, which it will follow until the Lewiston village line…
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To be Built at Once
The contract for the construction of the Lewiston, Youngstown & Frontier trolley live, was Wednesday awarded to Cragie & Tench of this city, who will at once let contracts for ties and iron. As soon as the track material is on the ground 100 men will begin the grading. The road is to be finished…
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Jamestown News Notes
Jamestown, April 15- Brady Brothers of New Jersey have been awarded the contract by the management of the Jamestown & Lake Erie Railway for building the extension of that line from this city to Falconer. The proposed extension is about four miles in length, and in it some very heavy cuts are to be made.…
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Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway Hearing
Announcement in an April 9, 1893 newspaper of a public hearing on the route of the proposed Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway. This announcement details the route within Lewiston and Youngstown and the rural area between the two towns. Source: The Daily Cataract, Niagara Falls, NY, 9 April 1896, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.