DL&W Utica Branch
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The Railroad War at Chenango Forks
This is another article about the efforts of the Smithville Railroad to claim the land surveyed by the Greene Railroad after stealing the maps of the route and filing them as their own. Source: Chenango [NY] American, 12 May 1870, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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An Unwarrantable Outrage
This long article recounts a plot to allow a group of men to register the get the rights to build along the path of the Greene Railroad by registering their map of the route in place of the map submitted by the organizers of the Green Railroad. Source: Chenango American, Greene, NY, 12 May 1870,…
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The Seizure of Railway Trains at Clayville
This February 1870 story details the actions of tax collectors in Clayville, NY to seize trains of the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railroad as they went through the town. Source: Evening Post, 9 February 1870
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Greene Railroad Company
Greene Railroad Company. A meeting of citizens was held at Greene, on Monday of last week, to consider the project of building a railroad from that place to Chenango Forks. Resolutions were adopted favoring the organization of the “Greene Railroad Company,” with a capital of $200,000. Maurice Birdsall, R. P. Barnard and H. O. Banks…