Chautauqua Lake Railway
The Chautauqua Lake Railway was one of the predecessors of the Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad.
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1894 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1894. The report showed that the railroad owned five locomotives with four driving wheels. It added two locomotives between July 1893 and June 1894 for a cost of $7,865. The railroad owned…
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1892 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1892. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving wheels and had leased a locomotive with six driving wheels for the months of August, September and December 1891…
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1891 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending June 30, 1891. This report noted that W. E. Griggs was appointed as the receiver for the railroad on July 26, 1890. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving…
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1889 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending September 30, 1889. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving wheels, four passenger cars, and three baggage, mail and express car. It also owned 10 boxcars, 2 coal cars,…
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1889 Inspection Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the 1889 inspection report by the New York State Railway Commissioners of the Chautauqua Lake Railway. There were a number of interesting details about the railroad and its operations in the report. The line from Mayville to the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds, formerly the Mayville Extension Railroad, was in poor condition and hadn’t been…
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1888 NYS Report on the Chautauqua Lake Railway
Below is the report filed by the Chautauqua Lake Railway with the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners for the year ending September 30, 1888. The report showed that the railroad owned three locomotives with four driving wheels, nine passenger cars, and one baggage, mail and express car. It also owned 10 boxcars, 2 coal cars,…