Youngstown, NY
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Okay Abandoning of Youngstown, Lewiston Railway
The Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway today had permission of the Interstate Commerce commission to abandon its six-mile line between Youngstown and Lewiston. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington said the ICC authorized the move yesterday. Wilbur H. Shumaker, president of the Youngstown Cold Storage company, owner of the line, said today that final permission…
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Would Abandon Gorge Railroad in Youngstown
Albany, Nov. 20-The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railway Company has filed a petition with the public service commission asking for the approval of declaration of abandonment of portions of its electric street railway in the village of Youngstown, Niagara county, and adjoining towns. The portions of the line sought to be abandoned are from Fort…
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Abandonment of L&YFR in Youngstown
ALBANY, Nov. 20.-The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railway Co. filed a petition today with the public service commission asking for the approval of declaration of abandonment of portions of its electric street railway in the village of Youngstown, Niagara County, and adjoining towns. The portions of the line sought to be abandoned are from Third…
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Change of L&YFR Tracks in Youngstown
This January 1910 newspaper notice announced the plans of the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway to build a new section of tracks in the village of Youngstown. The tracks would from the current tracks at Church and Third Streets, go north on Third Street, west on State Street, North on Lake Road to Jackson Street…
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1900 NYS Report on the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway
This report from the describes the layout and operation of the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway. Source: Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of New York State for the Year 1900. Found on Google Books.
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Another Frontier Railroad
The New Electric Line From Lewiston to Youngstown Formally Opened to the Public The Lewiston, Youngstown & Frontier Railroad, extending from Lewiston to Youngstown, was formally opened to the public yesteriday afternoon, The road, though operated by a different company, is really a continuation of the Niagara-Lewiston road, better known an the Gorge route, which…
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New Cars for the Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway
The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railroad Company received Tuesday two of the six new electric motor cars ordered some time ago from the factory of the J. G. Brill Company of Philadelphia. They are open cars, about 22 feet long, with eight seats arranged cross- wise. They are painted a wine color handsomely finished. The…
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Cars Will Be Running August 1st
The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railway Company contemplate operating trolley cars on that portion of their road running through the village of Lewiston on Wednesday next. R. B. Goodman, formerly associated with Chief Engineer George A. Ricker of the Gorge road as assistant engineer, has been appointed superintendent of the new road, and assumed the…
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Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway Hearing
Announcement in an April 9, 1893 newspaper of a public hearing on the route of the proposed Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway. This announcement details the route within Lewiston and Youngstown and the rural area between the two towns. Source: The Daily Cataract, Niagara Falls, NY, 9 April 1896, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.