New York Central Railroad Falls Road Branch
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Plow Ripped Things Up
LOCKPORT, Feb. 4 (Special) The Rochester snowplow, pushed by a heavy hog back engine ripped up tracks and signal wires at the east end of the Central yards yesterday, delaying traffic two hours and causing about $1000 damage. The locomotive left the track and dashed into a semaphore, mowing it down as if it were…
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Albion Railroad Depot Consumed
The railroad depot at Albion took fire yesterday morning about seven o’clock and was totally consumed. The Albion station was on the Niagara Falls Road Branch of the New York Central Railroad. Source: Courier & Republic, Buffalo, NY, 20 June 1873, p. 2, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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A Runway Car
During the brisk gale of Tuesday last, PETER LESLIE and others, at the Medina Depot, attempted to “switch off’” a freight car for the purpose of clearing the track for the down train. They run the car by horse power until it had passed the switch, where they disengaged the rope by which it was…