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The Railroad War at Chenango Forks
This is another article about the efforts of the Smithville Railroad to claim the land surveyed by the Greene Railroad after stealing the maps of the route and filing them as their own. Source: Chenango [NY] American, 12 May 1870, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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An Unwarrantable Outrage
This long article recounts a plot to allow a group of men to register the get the rights to build along the path of the Greene Railroad by registering their map of the route in place of the map submitted by the organizers of the Green Railroad. Source: Chenango American, Greene, NY, 12 May 1870,…
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The Seizure of Railway Trains at Clayville
This February 1870 story details the actions of tax collectors in Clayville, NY to seize trains of the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railroad as they went through the town. Source: Evening Post, 9 February 1870
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Greene Railroad Company
Greene Railroad Company. A meeting of citizens was held at Greene, on Monday of last week, to consider the project of building a railroad from that place to Chenango Forks. Resolutions were adopted favoring the organization of the “Greene Railroad Company,” with a capital of $200,000. Maurice Birdsall, R. P. Barnard and H. O. Banks…
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Through To Norwich
Great Excitement The first regular passenger train over the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railroad, arrived in Norwich at 9 P.M. yesterday. The residents of that place turned out en masse to do honor to the occasion, and with a fine band, and cheers and smiles, welcomed the visitors on the train. Three rousing cheers…
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Another Chapter of Erie
The 1869 book “Another Chapter of Erie” by George Crouch is a 48 page public defense of James Fisk, Jr and Jay Gould, two of the people accused of financial mismanagement of the Erie Railway. The author’s goals are not hidden, as he notes in his first section: They have been discussed and criticised as financiers and speculators ; some censuring their conduct, some applauding them, but all astounded at the grandeur of their schemes. Fisk has been ” written up ” repeatedly in his character of speculator, operatic manager, and admiral, but of his rendition of his principal role, that of a ” railway manager, ” little or no notice has been taken, So far as his connection with the…
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1868 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Erie Railroad
The following (short) report on the Buffalo and Erie Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (itself later part of the New York Central Railroad), comes from the Manual for the Railroads of the United States 1868- 1869. Note that the railroad was built with a gauge of 4 feet, 10…
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1868 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Washington Railway
Excerpt of the 1868 Annual Report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor concerning the Buffalo and Washington Railway. Source: 1868 Annual Report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor. Google Books.
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1868 NYS Report on the Dunkirk, Warren and Pittsburgh Railroad
Excerpt of the 1868 Annual Report of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor concerning the Dunkirk, Warren and Pittsburgh Railroad.