Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad
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The Ligget’s Gap and Cayuga and Susquehanna Railways
This 1850 piece in a New York City newspaper extolls the virtues of the Ligget’s Gap Railroad and the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad (which the writer states are owned by the same company) as routes to move coal from Pennsylvania to New York State. It is a very laudatory article and notes that the Cayuga…
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Railroad Celebration
The short clipping below talks about the first train to reach Ithaca on the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad extension of the line from Owego. This extension eliminated the need to use the including plane to bring freight cars over the hill outside Ithaca and allowed trains to directly go into the village. Ithaca, Dec. 18RAILROAD…
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Ithaca Present, and in Prospect
This long letter to the editor of a newspaper in Ithaca, NY discusses many topics, including the sorry state of the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad. Source: Ithaca [NY] Journal and Advertiser, 14 February 1849, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.