Erie Railroad
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A Train Load of Silk
A train load of silk passe through Salamanca recently enroute from San Francisco to New York. The train consisted of ten cars and was drawn by two engines. The silk was still in bond, and each car bore the seal of the U. S. custom-house at San Francisco, with a notice on each car that…
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Erie Wootten Camelback Locomotives
It is stated that the Erie will have twenty-five more Wooten engines built at the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia… Source: Cattaraugus Republican. Salamanca, NY. February 28, 1890.
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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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Gossip of “The Idler”
Speaking of a credit business, one thing is certain, somebody has got to do a tick trade when railroads keep their employes behind months. There is the Lackawanna & Pittsburgh, which has not given its workman a dollar in over five months. How can they pay in advance? But such treatment on the part of…
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“The Battle of the Gauges”
Last of the Broad Gauge – The New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad Conforms to the Standard The broad gauge of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad is no more. In the bright light of this beautiful summer morning with each moving rail a change was wrought and in a few short…
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A Special Train for Nine Passengers
The morning express on the Albany and Susquehanna road, usually makes a connection with No. 3 on the Erie at Binghamton. It is by this route that Boston passenger traffic is sought by the Erie, Pullman cars being run from Chicago to Boston without change. Tuesday morning the Albany train arrived in Binghamton three hours…
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Train 5 Looses Wheel
On Saturday morning last as [Erie Railroad] train 5 was running near Ewing crossing, some two miles south of this place [Randolph, NY], one of the small wheels under the front of the engine broke and flew into an innumerable number of pieces. The engineer immediately applied the air brake, but the train ran some…
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NYPANO Punctuality
This news clipping talks about the punctuality of the trains on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, while taking a swipe at the Erie Railroad. Source: The Weekly Courant, Randolph, NY. January 27, 1881
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Erie Railroad Wreck in Gowanda
This new clipping describes a wreck on the Erie Railroad near Gowanda, NY which injured the engineer, Thomas Griffin, and killed the fireman, Charles Becker. Source: The Weekly Courant, Randolph, NY. January 27, 1881
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Five Dead in Wreck at Tioga Center
Five Men Burned to Death.—-Train 12 on the Erie Railroad Wrecked and Burned. Express train 12, bound eastward, passes this station at 2:21. On Saturday last it passed here nearly on time. At Salamanca, it is transferred to the Erie track, and if no accident befalls it it reaches New York at 7:25 the following…