Erie Railroad Original Main Line
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Freight Derailment in Allegany
MANGLED CARS of an 18-car pileup blocked the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad line just west of the S. 1st St. crossing in Allegany. About 150 feet of track also was torn up as the 103-car freight derailed. Cause of the Saturday morning crash still is being investigated. Surgical gauze, beer, steel, sugar and a tank car of…
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New Trains on the Erie
This July 1888 new article describes two new accommodation trains (trains that stop at most/all stations along the line) on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad between Olean and Dunkirk, NY. Both trains connect at Dayton, NY with trains running on the Buffalo and Southwestern division of the railroad. Source: Jamestown [NY] Evening…
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That Double Track
The 1851 newspaper article below addresses the importance of the New York and Erie Railroad line to Dunkirk as a route to quickly transport immigrants who arrived in New York to the western frontier. Source: Tri-States Union, Port Jervis, NY, 7 August 1851.
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A Great Bargain!
The 1836 advertisement below illustrates one of the impacts of the building of the New York and Erie Railroad, and most railroads, – land speculation. People realized that having access to the railroad would allow them to ship raw materials like timber to new markets. Towns along the potential route of the railroad lobbied and…