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Fast Train on the N. Y., P. & O. R. R.
A new through express train, No. 8, from Chicago to New York, is now running over the N. Y., P. & O. R. R., passing Jamestown at 7:38 a. m. The train stops only at Corry and Jamestown on the eastern division, and makes the trip from Meadville to Salamanca in two hours and 45…
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Third Rail on the N. Y. P. & O.
The Chautauqua News, Sherman, NY, 23 June 1880, p. 1, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Narrowing of the N. Y. P. & O. R. R.
Jamestown [NY] Daily Journal, 23 June 1880, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Pittsburgh, Titusville & Buffalo R. R.
A June 1880 newspaper article about a vote by the shareholder of the Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railroad regarding a merger with the Buffalo and Southwestern Railroad, which did not happen. The Chautauqua [NY] News, 23 June 1880, p. 1, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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First Narrow Gauge Train on NYP&O
The first train to use the narrow gauge on the N Y P & O R R passed west from this station yesterday morning. It was No 43 [or 48, it was hard to read] and was composed of thirteen cars. Jamestown [NY] Daily Journal, 14 June 1880, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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Sad Accident
A Brakeman Falls From a Train and Received Serious Injuries. Between seven and eight o’clock last evening, a brakeman on the westward bound freight No. 60, met with a sad accident at Sanborn. The train broke in two, which was unknown to the brakeman who started to go from one end of the truin to…
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1879 Annual Meeting of the Buffalo and Southwestern Railroad
The Annual Meeting of the Buffalo and Southwestern Company. The regular annual election of the Buffalo and Southwestern Railway Co. was held yesterday. The election of thirteen directors took place in the morning with the following results: James Adams, W. H. H. Newman, W. S. Bissel, L. S. Jenks, Henry Martin, Jno. F. Moulton, Geo.…
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New Ticket Office
The office of General Passenger Agent Baldwin of the Buffalo, Chautauqua Lake & Pittsburgh Railway, has been removed to Barnum’s ticket office on Exchange street. Source: Evening Republic, Buffalo, NY, 27 October 1879, Fultonhistory.com
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A Fond Farewell
The William street depot will abandoned to-day so far as passenger business is concerned, and all the trains on the Vanderbilt roads and their amicable connections will arrive at and depart from Exchange street. The first train to be run in the city will be the St. Louis express which arrives from Now York at…
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Permission to Build Lockport and Buffalo Railroad Station in Lockport
Source: Lockport Daily Journal, 15 July 1879.