Jamestown, NY
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Look out for the Cars!!
The following article concerns the arrival of the tracks of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. With the completion of this line, Jamestown had a rail connection to Salamanca, and from there to the Erie Railroad and New York City. “HERE SHE COMES !!”The Cars at Dexterville!!LIGHT IN THE EAST !! Hip, Hoorah! The cars…
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1860 Annual Meeting of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
The following article about the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad is from the July 19, 1860 issue of The Railroad Record magazine. Much of the report is based on the report of the work of the contractor building the line westward from the New York and Erie Railroad…
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New Railroad Enterprise
When it was chartered by New York State, the New York and Erie Railroad was prohibited from running through other states or connecting to railroad in other states and was required to have its western terminus on Lake Erie. The railroad recognized that it would eventually need to expand westward and this 1852 article discusses…