BR&P Buffalo Line
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Riceville Station Building Will Be Removed
Albany, Feb. 28-The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has been authorized by the Public Service Commission to remove its station building at Riceville in Cattaraugus County. The testimony presented at a hearing before the Commission showed that there has been no passenger business at the station since 1932 and that during the years 1938 and…
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Riceville Wants a Station
Frank Hadley of Riceville, a little town in Cattaraugus county, seven miles beyond Springville, appeared before the Railroad Commissioners this morning in the interests of his village. which is on the B., R. & P. railroad, and has no station. Riceville is a small town, but bustling and the inhabitants rightly think they are deserving…
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War Over a Railroad Track
A May 28, 1883 article from The (NY) Evening Post describing the battles between the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to build their respective tracks over a plot of land near Buffalo. The Rochester and Pittsburgh was in the process at that time of building their line from Buffalo…