New York Railroad Archive

Central New York and Western Railroad

  • 1899 Inspection Report on the Central New York and Western Railroad

    The following is an inspection report for the Central New York and Western Railroad done by the New York State Railroad Commissioners and included in their 1899 report. I have made a few changes (breaking one long paragraph into smaller ones) but the text is all original. CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WESTERN RAILROAD. (Inspected June…

  • Thing of the Past

    —– Narrow-gauge Railroads of the Oil Country.—–Hidden By Under-Brush—–Little Left to Represent the Vast sums of MoneyInvested in this Enterprise—–Country StagesHave Taken the Place of Some of the Roads—–Special to the Buffalo Express. Bolivar, Jan. 29. – One of the most picturesque features of the Northern oil fields, the narrow-gauge railroads, will soon be a…

  • Bolivar Breeze News Items On The 
Central New York and Western Railroad

    The following is a collection of articles from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY about the Central New York and Western Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad. January  6, 1893 

Engine 4, of the C.N.Y. & W. snapped a drive wheel tire in the yards here yesterday noon, and as…

  • Articles About the Lackawanna 
and Southwestern Railroad

    The following is a collection of short newspaper articles about the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad.  These articles are from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY and were provided by Richard Palmer. October 1, 1892 The L.& S.W. Sold The Lackawanna & Southwestern railroad property was…