Gowanda, NY
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Erie Speeds Repairs on Wrecked Bridge
Source: Gowanda News. Gowanda, NY. October 20, 1955. Provided by Phil Palen
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Erie Freight Wrecks on Creek Bridge
An Erie freight train roaring across the Cattaraugus Creek bridge about 12:40 a.m. Wednesday morning was derailed from an undetermined cause, piling up 63 freight cars, about half of which were scattered along the bank or dumped into the stream. No one was reported injured. The pictures above, taken by Al McDonald, early Wednesday morning…
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Freight Wreck Loss Put at $250,000
SHATTERED CARS PILED 40 FEET DEEPIN VALLEY OF CATTARAUGUS CREEK 64 Leave Track, Rip Out Two Trestles Of Bridge;Debris Is Strewn for Quarter of a Mile By Jack West Buffalo Evening News Staff Reporter GOWANDA, Oct. 12 – The valley of Cattaraugus Creek was filled 40 feet deep with shattered freight cars in the spectacular…
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New Trolley Line Now Seems Assured
Below is are two articles from the same date about a new trolley line from Hamburg to Falconer, NY. The line was never built. Believed That Work on Extension fromFalconer to Hamburg will be Commencedin Near Future – Right of WayNegotiations On. Falconer, Jan. 10 – During the past few days there has been much…
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1907 Inspection Report on the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch
Below is the 1907 inspection report of the New York State Public Service Commission of the Buffalo and Southwestern Branch of the Erie Railroad. The Buffalo and Southwestern branch is a single track road extending from a connection with the Buffalo Creek road at South Buffalo to a connection with the Meadville division at Waterboro,…
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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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Suggestions for a Route to Connect the Cross-Cut and Buffalo & Jamestown Roads
This 1874 letter to the editor suggests the construction of a railroad to connect the Cross-Cut Railroad (a reference to the Buffalo, Corry and Pittsburgh Rail Road Company) and the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad. This planning does not appear to have gotten any further than this letter as there was no record of this route…
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The Versailles Route Again
A May 1873 letter to the editor of the Evening Courier & Republic newspaper in Buffalo promoting the route Versailles, NY as the place for the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad to cross Cattaraugus Creek rather than Gowanda. Source: Evening Courier & Republic, Buffalo, NY, 1 May 1873, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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The Buffalo & Jamestown Railroad
A March 20, 1873 about the building of the Buffalo and Jamestown Railroad near Gowanda, NY. Source: Evening Courier & Republic, Buffalo, NY, 20 March 1873, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.