Buffalo and Lockport Railway

  • Street Railway Companies Are Consolidated

    This February 20, 1902 article describes the formation from the International Railway Company (IRC) from the merger of the Buffalo Railway Company, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, the Lockport and Olcott Railway, the Buffalo, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls Electric Railroad Company, the Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Railway…

  • Olcott Beach Ad

    This ad from an August 28, 1900 newspaper touts the newly-established rail connection between Buffalo and Olcott Beach on Lake Ontario via the Buffalo and Lockport Railway and the the Lockport and Olcott Railway. Source: The Buffalo [NY] Review, 28 August 1900, p. 4, Fultonhistory.com

  • Abandonment of Part of Route

    This portion of the report of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners approved the Buffalo, Tonawanda and Niagara Falls Electric Railroad to abandon a portion of its line in Tonawanda and North Tonawanda because they had negotiated the right to run over the tracks of the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Electric Railway, the Buffalo and Lockport Railway, and the Crosstown Street Railway Company of Buffalo. Source: Eighteenth…

  • 1898 NYS Report on the Buffalo and Lockport Railway

    The following is the 1898 report from the New York State Railroad Commissioners on the Buffalo and Lockport Railway. Source: Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Year 1898, Volume II. Found on Google Books.