Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad
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Sale of Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Line
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, Buffalo, N. Y. – The abandoned property of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad between Buffalo and Wellsville has been bought by a syndicate consisting of C. A. Finnegan and Theodore Hofeller, Buffalo, and Abraham Weber, of S. Weber & Son, Louisville, Ky. The purchase price was $800,000, the obligations outstanding being…
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Option on Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – The property of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway between Wellsville and Buffalo, on which W. R. Page, president Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, had an option, was recently sold at foreclosure to M. G. Bogue, representing the bondholders’ committee. It is officially…
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Up-State Railroad Sold
New Yorker Buys the Buffalo and Susquehanna for Bondholders. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 13 – The property of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway, consisting of about 80 miles of trackage, several stations, and rolling stock, and operating between Buffalo and Wellsville, N. Y., was sold here today to Morton G. Bogue of New York, representing…
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Interest in Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Line
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – W. R. Page, president Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, and associates have taken an option on the line of the old Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway from Wellsville to Buffalo. If the option is exercised it will be done independently of the electric…
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WNY&P Traction / Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y.-This company has been asked to buy the Buffalo-Susquehanna Railway extending between Buffalo and Wellsville. The proposition is to electrify the Buffalo-Susquehanna Railway which would provide an outlet into Buffalo. It is understood the Chamber of Commerce of Olean and the towns of Friendship, Franklinville, Wellsville…
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WN&P Traction Interest in Former Buffalo & Susquehanna
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – J. B. Olmsted, Buffalo, N. Y., chairman of the committee representing bondholders and stockholders of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, has confirmed a report that the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company has been investigating the abandoned Buffalo & Susquehanna section between Buffalo…
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Buffalo & Susquehanna Sold
CORNING, N.Y., Dec. 5 – The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad was sold under foreclosure at Coudersport, Penn., to-day for $5,000,000. The purchase was made by a protective committee representing the first refunding 4 per cent. bonds. Alvin W. Krich, President of the Equitable Trust Company of New York, is chairman of the committee. Source: New…
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Arcade, NY Railroad Facilities, 1912
The following description of the railroads is from a 1912 book on the history of Arcade, NY. In the early part of the year 1852 stock was subscribed along a proposed route by which the villages of Arcade and Attica were to be connected by rail. The roadbeds, culverts, etc., were completed in 1853 and…
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Receiver in Charge of B. & S. Railroad
This is an article about the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad entering receivership in 1910. Source: Belmont Dispatch. Belmont, NY. May 6, 1910. Found on USGenNet web site.
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Buffalo and Susquehanna Construction
The rails on the B. & S. road are laid from Alum Rock to Sandusky and the roadbed is being ballasted and put into fine shape. The big fill at Sandusky is nearing completion, and the bridges at Sandusky and Alum Rock will be put into shape as soon as the iron workers strike is…