Jamestown, NY
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Reminiscences of the Atlantic & Great Western
Thirty Years Ago the Jamestown Freight Station Was an Insignificant Affair – Interviews With Veterans in the Service It was 30 years ago today that Frank S. Jones, ticket agent at the uptown office of the J. C. & L. E. railway and local freight manager for the Pennsylvania Railroad, began his career as a…
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Interlocking System
It is Being Installed at the Western End of the Erie Switch Yards The men who occupied the box car which was burned at the boatlanding Wednesday noon are machinists engaged on important work for the Erie railway company, instead of Italians as stated in The Journal of yesterday. For several weeks they have been…
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Sunday Trains on the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railway
On Sunday, March 20th, the Jamestown & Lake Erie will begin to run Sunday trains between Jamestown and Mayville. And as soon as the roadbed to Chautauqua can be repaired trains will be run to that point. Source: Buffalo [NY] Express, 17 March 1898, Fultonhistory.com.
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Tracks Sink In the Swamp
Jamestown, Aug. 7,- The swamp along the outlet of Chautauqua lake is covered by a thin crust of earth. A pole, sharpened at one end, can easily be pushed down a number or feet. The Jamestown & Lake Erie railroad is raising its tracks. The earth used for filing in became so heavy on Wednesday…
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1889 Inspection Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the 1889 inspection report by the New York State Railway Commissioners of the Chautauqua Lake Railway. There were a number of interesting details about the railroad and its operations in the report. The line from Mayville to the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds, formerly the Mayville Extension Railroad, was in poor condition and hadn’t been…
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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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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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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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Atlantic and Great Western Railroad!
Laying of the Rails to Jamestown to-day.Arrival of the First Train from New York.HISTORY OF THE ROADDinner to Mr. Kennard, Chief-Engineer.Speeches, Toasts, &c., &c. RECENT HISTORY OF THE WORK. This great enterprise, which has for a decade of years absorbed the interest of capitalists and commercial men, as well as the business public, both east…
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Depot Location
The following 1860 article is about the location of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad depot in Jamestown, NY. This would be the first of four stations in Jamestown on what would become the Erie Railroad. The Depot is located, and the Irishmen, spades and carts are grading the surface. Instead of the place being…