Lakewood, NY
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Erie Equips Complete Division with Signals and Interlockers
This September 1929 article from the Railway Signaling magazine describes the installation of new signals and interlocking plants on the Erie Railroad‘s Meadville Line between Salamanca, NY and Meadville, PA.
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Settlement Not In Sight
A May 1913 article about the strike against the Chautauqua Traction company and Jamestown Street Railway company. This is too long of an article for me to retype and the scan is poor enough that the OCR software doesn’t do a good job so I won’t include the text of the article. Sorry! Source: Buffalo…
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Mechanics Lien
Timothy Burke and John M. Burke of Scranton, Pa., have filed against the Erie Railroad, the Nypano Railroad Company and the Erie Land and Improvement Company what is probably the largest sum in a mechanics lien ever received in this county. The property affected is the new roadbed of the Erie Railroad between Lakewood and…
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Erie Contracts for Columbus & Erie Railroad
A December 1905 article about the Erie Railroad awarding contracts to reroute part of the Meadville line in Chautauqua County and to build the Columbus and Erie Railroad. The article wrongly located Niobe in Pennsylvania; it is just north of the New York/Pennsylvania state line. —The Erie Railway company awarded contracts for the construction of…
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Plans for Third of Erie’s Cut-Offs
PLANS FOR THIRD OF ERIE’S CUT-OFFS.Double Track to Be Laid From Kennedy, N. Y., to Corry, Pa. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 2.—Arrangements were perfected today for the third of the systems of cut-offs on the Erie railroad designed to reduce the grades as near to water level as possible. This calls for the…
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Construction of the Chautauqua Traction Company
Three gangs of men are now at work in the construction of the street railway lines of the Chautauqua Traction company, between Lakewood and Mayville, and two other gangs will be employed before the end of the week, the work to be progressed as speedily as possible from at least five different points along the…
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Railway-franchise Trouble Compromised
A compromise has been effected between the trustees of the village of Lakewood and A. N. Broadhead, president of the Jamestown Street Railway Company and of the Chautauqua Traction Company, whereby the trustees are to grant the franchise to the last-named company to lay its tracks in the village and the Jamestown company is to…