Erie Railroad
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Wellsville’s New Station
A new artistic and very cozy station has been erected at Wellsville, on the Allegheny Division, and, while proving how well the Erie is progressing in the general betterment, the benefit will be gained by Wellsville itself, as a result of the attractive structure, can easily be imagined. Because the town is going to the…
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Gasolene Vs Steam
This new Motor Power Seems to Solve Transportation Question For Branch Lines. The experiments with gasolene motor cars which the Erie railroad has been conducting for more than two years bidfair to be successful. The management realized some time ago the need of a frequent and economical passenger service on branch lines where the traffic…
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Mechanics Lien
Timothy Burke and John M. Burke of Scranton, Pa., have filed against the Erie Railroad, the Nypano Railroad Company and the Erie Land and Improvement Company what is probably the largest sum in a mechanics lien ever received in this county. The property affected is the new roadbed of the Erie Railroad between Lakewood and…
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Joy in Wellsville
Erie Railroad Company is to Erect a Fine New Red Brick Passenger Station in That Lively Village This Fall. Erie officials have given out at Wellsville that a new passenger station, 30 x 150 feet, is to be erected in that village, the work to begin within a few weeks. There will be a long…
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Erie Contracts for Columbus & Erie Railroad
A December 1905 article about the Erie Railroad awarding contracts to reroute part of the Meadville line in Chautauqua County and to build the Columbus and Erie Railroad. The article wrongly located Niobe in Pennsylvania; it is just north of the New York/Pennsylvania state line. —The Erie Railway company awarded contracts for the construction of…
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Plans for Third of Erie’s Cut-Offs
PLANS FOR THIRD OF ERIE’S CUT-OFFS.Double Track to Be Laid From Kennedy, N. Y., to Corry, Pa. (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 2.—Arrangements were perfected today for the third of the systems of cut-offs on the Erie railroad designed to reduce the grades as near to water level as possible. This calls for the…
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Killed by the Cars
YOUNG MAN MET DEATH AT WATTS FLATS Benjamin L. Blanchard the Victim of a Fatal Accident Some Time Monday Night — No One Saw the Accident and the Particulars Can Only Be Conjectured Sometime during Monday night Benjamin L. Blanchard, an 18-year-old boy, residing with his uncle, H. J. Lopus, about one mile south of…
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Ten Freight Cars Derailed
A Wreck on the Erie Near LittleValley Thursday — No One Injured Trains from Dunkirk eastward on the Erie via Salamanca found it necessary Thursday to use that part of the B. & S. W. branch between Dayton and Jamestown and the main line between Jamestown and Salamanca in order to reach the latter place…
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Two Very Bad Wrecks
Below is a scan of a long article in the February 8, 1901 issue of the Cattaraugus Republican newspaper published in Salamanca and Little Valley, NY. It concerns a wreck on the Erie Railroad main line in Carrollton, NY, just south of Salamanca. The first paragraph summarizes the article: Tuesday evening a fatal collision occurred…
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Interlocking System
It is Being Installed at the Western End of the Erie Switch Yards The men who occupied the box car which was burned at the boatlanding Wednesday noon are machinists engaged on important work for the Erie railway company, instead of Italians as stated in The Journal of yesterday. For several weeks they have been…