Olean, NY
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OB&S Liquidation
When the property of the defunct Olean, Bradford and Salamanca Railway Company is struck off to the highest bidder at a referee’s sale in the Corporation Room in the First National Bank building on May 25, it will officially mark the passing of a street railway line which has existed in Olean for almost forty-eight…
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OB&S Application To Operate Busses in Olean
The Olean, Bradford and Salamanca railway has applied to the Olean city council for permission to operate motor busses over the principal streets of Olean. There will be a preliminary hearing on the application in September. Source: Salamanca [NY] Inquirer, 11 September 1925, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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One-Man Cars in Olean
The first one-man operated street cars have appeared in Olean. The Olean, Bradford & Salamanca railway is using them on the State street-Erie station line. If they prove a success all the city lines in Olean, Bradford and Salamanca will have the type. Source: The Wayne County Journal, Palmyra, NY, 15 June 1922, p. 2,…
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Big Power Plant
Olean. – Contractors have begun to figure on plans and specifications for the new $250,000 power plant of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company. It will be located on Fifteenth and Irving streets just south of the original Olean Rock City & Bradford Car Line, The building will have a frontage of 176…
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Cloudbursts on Southern Tier
Traffic on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railway in standstill. The Erie, between Buffalo and Jamestown, is also tied up by floods and washouts. In Salamanca the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, which runs the trolley system in Salamanca and Olean, is badly crippled. A washout four miles East of Salamanca will prevent…
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Bolivar Breeze News Items On The Central New York and Western Railroad
The following is a collection of articles from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY about the Central New York and Western Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad. January 6, 1893 Engine 4, of the C.N.Y. & W. snapped a drive wheel tire in the yards here yesterday noon, and as…
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Articles About the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad
The following is a collection of short newspaper articles about the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad. These articles are from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY and were provided by Richard Palmer. October 1, 1892 The L.& S.W. Sold The Lackawanna & Southwestern railroad property was…
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1886 Inspection Report on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad
Below is an inspection report of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad from the 1886/1887 Annual Report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners, Volume 1. It details the results of an inspection of the railroad in October 1886. Note: The report refers to it as the “Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway” but…
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Gossip of “The Idler”
Speaking of a credit business, one thing is certain, somebody has got to do a tick trade when railroads keep their employes behind months. There is the Lackawanna & Pittsburgh, which has not given its workman a dollar in over five months. How can they pay in advance? But such treatment on the part of…
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Niagara Falls Excursion
The Buffalo Road will give their first electric light excursion of the season to the Niagara Falls, on Thursday, June 26, for the especial benefit of the towns along the Olean division from Kinzua to Olean. The fare for the round trip from Kinzua, Sugar Run, Corydon, and Onoville, is $2.00, West Run [note: This…