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  • Lockport and Buffalo Railroad

    Lockport and Buffalo Railroad. At the Special Term of the Supreme Court, in Buffalo, yesterday, Judge TALCOTT presiding, motions were made for the appointment of Commissioners to settle and determine at what point and in what manner the Lockport & Buffalo Railroad may cross the trucks of the Niagara Falls branch of the N. Y.…

  • New Road to Oildom

    Opening of the Olean, Bradford & Warren Narrow-Gauge. The Olean, Bradford & Warren narrow-gauge railroad is now open for freight and passenger traffic, from Olean to Bradford. The last three hundred feet was completed on Thursday, and on Monday next the road will be formally opened to the public. The road is twenty-three miles in…

  • Wreck Near Gasport

    Several freight cars became detached from a train near Gasport Monday night, and a freight train following ran into them. The caboose and several cars were badly wrecked. No one was hurt. Source: Niagara Falls [NY] Gazette, 9 January 1878, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.

  • Buffalo & South-Western Railroad

    This article in a Buffalo newspaper reprinted the official notice to the employees of the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad that as of January 1, 1878 it would be operated by the new Buffalo and South Western Railroad Company. The Evening Republic, Buffalo, NY, 31 December 1877, p. 1, NYS Historic Newspapers

  • Shipping Fruit in 1877

    Fruit buyers on the line of the L. O. S. railway are at a loss to know what to do with their fruit. No cars can be obtained in which to ship the fruit and potatoes, and there they lie. A friend from Somerset informs us that the yard and depot at Barker’s station, is…

  • Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad Accident

    -Tuesday’s Jamestown Journal says: “This morning as the Buffalo & Jamestown train west was running between Lawton’s and North Alden, it ran into a drove of cattle which happened to be crossing the track. Six animals were killed instantly and they say that the price of beef is low in the vicinity of Alden. No…

  • The City’s Railroad Stock

    A newspaper article about a resolution before the Buffalo Common Council for the city to sell its stocks in the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad and Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a resolution directing the sale of the city’s stock in the Buffalo & Jamestown and Buffalo,…

  • Breaking Ground for the New Railroad

    Breaking Ground for the New Railroad. Special dispatch to the Courier. LOCKPORT, October 16th, 1876. Hon. T. T. Flagler, President of the Company, broke ground for the Lockport and Buffalo Railroad this afternoon in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. A heavy force of men commence work to-morrow and the construction of the…

  • The County Fair

    A notice about transportation from Buffalo to the Erie County Fair via the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad. The Evening Republic, Buffalo, NY, 13 September 1876, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.

  • The Buffalo and Lockport Railway

    The Buffalo Commercial of last evening says: “There is a good prospect that the proposed Buffalo and Lockport Railway will be constructed at an early day. The directors of the company have advertised for bids for grading the route. -A connection will be made at Tonawanda with the Niagara Falls branch of the Erie Railway,…