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Main Street Bridge in Buffalo
The following is from the report of the Buffalo, NY city council on December 12, 1881 about a dispute between the city and the New York, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. Source: Buffalo Evening News, 13 December 1881, second edition, p. 1.
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A New Railroad
An Important Enterprise A very important new railroad enterprise has just been assured for Allegany county. It is no less than the extension of the Olean & Friendship narrow gauge to Belvidere, Angelica, Swains, Nunda and Mt. Morris – or near the latter point – where it will form an important connection with the extension…
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1881 NYS Report on the Mayville Extension Railroad
Below is the report from the 1881 Annual Report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor for the Mayville Extension Railroad. Source: Annual Report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor on the Railroad of the State of New York For The Year Ending September 30, 1881. Google Books.
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A Train this Week
The New York, Lackawanna & Western Railroad is progressing rapidly. The double track from Binghamton is laid to within three miles of Owego, and a train will probably run between Owego and Binghamton this week. Source: Elmira Daily Advertiser, 4 August 1881, p. 5
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“The Battle of the Gauges”
Last of the Broad Gauge – The New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Conforms to the Standard The broad gauge of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad is no more. In the bright light of this beautiful summer morning with each moving rail a change was wrought and in a few short…
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A Special Train for Nine Passengers
The morning express on the Albany and Susquehanna road, usually makes a connection with No. 3 on the Erie at Binghamton. It is by this route that Boston passenger traffic is sought by the Erie, Pullman cars being run from Chicago to Boston without change. Tuesday morning the Albany train arrived in Binghamton three hours…
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1881 NYS Report on the Olean, Bradford and Warren Railroad
The report below is from the 1881 annual report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor. Source: Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Railroads of the State of New York For the Year Ending June 30, 1881.
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The Railroad Located
A June 1881 newspaper article about the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (“Nickel Plate Railroad”) purchasing land in Dunkirk, NY for their shops and depot. It is interesting that the article refers to a “joint” company that included the Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western (later part of the Pennsylvania Railroad) and the New York,…
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Genesee Valley Canal Railroad
Genesee Valley Canal Railroad. Yesterday morning sub-contractor Peterson, under direction of Contractor Bennett, commenced the work of grading the road bed for the track of the Genesee Valley Canal railroad. The first work was done at the Rapids. Several boat loads of steel rails are expected to arrive soon from New York. Within a short…
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Early Railroad Profits
The Enormous Dividends of the Narrow Gauge Lines in the Bradford Oil Regions Soon after the great railroad purchase recently made by the Buffalo, Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company, attention was called to the enormous dividends which the narrow gauge railroads of the oil country were paying their stockholders. Through the courtesy of the Secretary…