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Erie Wootten Camelback Locomotives
It is stated that the Erie will have twenty-five more Wooten engines built at the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia… Source: Cattaraugus Republican. Salamanca, NY. February 28, 1890.
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Derailment at Haywards
A large elm tree was blown across the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg railroad track at Haywards, on the Lewiston ridge. An east-bound freight, composed of between 80 and 40 cars, ran into the tree, and 18 cars were thrown from the track, some of which were badly damaged. Engineer D. F. Durling received quite severe…
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Mall Service on the Lackawanna
Official information has been received at the Batavia Post office that the stage mail-service between Batavia and East Bethany will be discontinued on the 30th inst. Beginning December 1st East Bethany will receive its mail from the Lackawanna railroad, an order instituting a mail service on that road between Binghamton and Buffalo having just been…
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1889 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending September 30, 1889. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving wheels, four passenger cars, and three baggage, mail and express car. It also owned 10 boxcars, 2 coal cars,…
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Burglars at East Alexander
Burglars visited J. C. Gardner’s coal office at East Alexander on the Lackawanna road last night, gaining an entrance by breaking four panes of glass and then tearing out the sash. A box of cigars, some plug tobacco, a quantity of smoking tobacco, a little small change and a few postage stamps were taken, amounting…
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1889 Inspection Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the 1889 inspection report by the New York State Railway Commissioners of the Chautauqua Lake Railway. There were a number of interesting details about the railroad and its operations in the report. The line from Mayville to the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds, formerly the Mayville Extension Railroad, was in poor condition and hadn’t been…
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Derailment at River View Station
LEWISTON,-On Tuesday afternoon last an east bound freight train on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg road was derailed by an open switch near River view station. The passenger and freight trains were obliged to use the N. Y. C. tracks until the wreck was cleared up. Source: Suspension Bridge Journal, Niagara Falls, NY, 9 February…
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1888 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending September 30, 1888. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving wheels, nine passenger cars, and one baggage, mail and express car. It also owned 10 boxcars, 2 coal cars,…
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Early Railroad Routes
Historical Facts Concerning Western New York Roads. Mr. David E. E. MIX of Batavia has compiled from records in the County Clerk’s office, some valuable and interesting information in regard to early railroads in Western New York. Mr. MIX read a brief paper before the Pioneer Association at Silver Lake from which the following facts…
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Attacked By Tramps
An article about three tramps who attacked a New York Central Railroad train near Middleport, NY. Source: Orleans Republican, Albion, NY, 1 August 1888, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.