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Has Bought The Rails
Panama Traction Company Preparing to Build Line From Sugar Grove to Jamestown. The Panama Traction company has closed the contracts for the rails necessary for the construction of the ten miles of railroad line between Sugar Grove and Jamestown. It was announced today that work upon the grading of the line would commence as soon…
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Car Hit By Train in Elberta
Tuesday morning, Nov. 20, Ray Fitch suffered a fracture of both legs, one of them in two places, when his auto was hit by a New York Central freight train at Elberta station, three miles cast of here, on the R. W. & O. branch. The train stopped and he was picked up and taken…
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Panama and Ashville R. R.
The construction of the first railroad in this state to be operated wholly by gasolene power is provided for in a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the up-state Public Service Commission to the Panama Traction Co., for a six mile line between Panama and Ashville, through a sparsely settled rural section of…
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New Signal System
Chautauqua Traction Company, Jamestown, N. Y.-The Julian-Beggs Signal Company, Terre Haute, Ind. , has received a contract to install signal and speed control appliances on the lines of the Chautauqua Traction Company and the Jamestown, Westfield & Northwestern Railroad. It is estimated that the cost of the installation on the two roads will be about…
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Car Line to Panama Rocks
Work is progressing rapidly on the track-laying for the Ashville to Panama line of the Panama Traction Co. At the Ashville end of the proposed line, already nearly three miles of the grading is completed. Ties and track material are on hand, and actual laying of rails was started near Ashville. One bridge has been…
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Stuck by Trolley
Coroner J. E. Helwig this afternoon held an inquest into the death of George Ard of Hamburg, who was riding in Julius Schultz’e auto-truck when it was run down by a Lockport trolley car at Hoffman station on June 28th. at the North Tonawanda city court room this afternoon. Four witnesses was sworn. Evidence showed…
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Le Roy Railroad History
The article below gives the question and answer about Le Roy, NY history from a high school contest in 1916. QUESTION 17. Give the present and past names of the four railroads of Le Roy and the year that trains were first run on each of them. Answer. The first railroad to ran a train…
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1916 Poor’s Report on the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway
The following information about the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway was published in the “Poor’s Manual of Public Utilities” in 1916. Source: Poor’s Manual of Public Utilities. 1916. Found on Google Books.
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Three Injured In Wreck
Dunkirk, March 13. Engineer Charles Hesler of Buffalo, Fireman D. L. Church of Collingwood, O., and Fireman Vance of Buffalo, were severely injured today when No. 18 on the New York Central ran into a freight wreck at Farnham. The passenger engine and several freight cars were piled across the tracks. None of the passenger…
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1916 Poor’s Report: Niagara Junction Railway
Below is the listing for the Niagara Junction Railway in the 1916 edition of the Poor’s Manual of Public Utilities. The two electric locomotives listed would have been #3 and #4, which were purchased in 1913 when the line was electrified. Source: Poor’s Manual of Public Utilities, 1916, p. 470. Google Books.