Olean, NY
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A New Railroad
An Important Enterprise A very important new railroad enterprise has just been assured for Allegany county. It is no less than the extension of the Olean & Friendship narrow gauge to Belvidere, Angelica, Swains, Nunda and Mt. Morris – or near the latter point – where it will form an important connection with the extension…
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Early Railroad Profits
The Enormous Dividends of the Narrow Gauge Lines in the Bradford Oil Regions Soon after the great railroad purchase recently made by the Buffalo, Pittsburg and Western Railroad Company, attention was called to the enormous dividends which the narrow gauge railroads of the oil country were paying their stockholders. Through the courtesy of the Secretary…
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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…