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Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway Application
A notice in a December 10, 1895 newspaper about a public hearing by the Lewiston, NY Board of Trustees to consider the application of the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway to operate over the streets of the village. It is interesting that the routes described in this notice do not match the routes shown on…
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Riceville Wants a Station
Frank Hadley of Riceville, a little town in Cattaraugus county, seven miles beyond Springville, appeared before the Railroad Commissioners this morning in the interests of his village. which is on the B., R. & P. railroad, and has no station. Riceville is a small town, but bustling and the inhabitants rightly think they are deserving…
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Depew Buildings Lots!
This October 1895 advertisement announced a special train leaving Buffalo on the Lehigh Valley Railroad to take potential buyers of land in the new suburb of Depew. It exhorted the 3000 men now working at the shops in Depew to buy plots of land now before the capitalists and land speculators. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening…
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1895 NYS Report on 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 September 30, 1885, Volume 2.
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Electric Power at Niagara Falls
This July 1895 article discusses the planned uses of the electric power that was beginning to be generated from the flow of water at Niagara Falls. It highlights the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway and the Niagara Falls and Lewiston Electric Railway as being two likely consumers of the power. The article goes on…
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1895 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, 1895. The J&LE was formed on October 22, 1894 from the bankrupt Chautauqua Lake Railway. The report showed that the railroad owned five locomotives with six driving wheels. These were…
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1895 Inspection Report on the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway
Below is the report issued by an inspector from the New York State Railroad Commissioners in their report for the year ending June 30, 1895. I don’t know when in the year the report was written, but it was soon after the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway succeeded the Chautauqua Lake Railway. The inspector does…
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1895 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 1895. The railroad was listed as owning two locomotives with four driving wheels, eight flat cars, and eight service cars. Source: 13th Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York, For…
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Freight Cars Piled Up
This article describes the wreck of a southbound train on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad near Ischua, NY. Source: The Olean [NY] Democrat, 19 October 1894, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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His Disastrous Nap
Christ Nagel of 229 Howard street fell asleep on the Western New York & Pennsylvania tracks near Winchester Station yesterday afternoon and a freight train came along. He was a pitiful sight when the Emergency ambulance took him away. His skull was fractured and will be [illegible] today. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 8 October…