New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad
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Le Roy Railroad History
The article below gives the question and answer about Le Roy, NY history from a high school contest in 1916. QUESTION 17. Give the present and past names of the four railroads of Le Roy and the year that trains were first run on each of them. Answer. The first railroad to ran a train…
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Memories of the Erie
Note: The following is a transcription of the memoirs of Sheridan Gorton Latta. They are reproduced with permission from “The Latta Genealogy Newsletter.“ On April 1, 1887, I began working as Baggage Master on the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, at Friendship, NY, under George W. Fries, Station Agent. I had improved in…
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1883 Inspection Report on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad
The 1883/1884 report of the New York State Railroad Commissioners included the following report of the inspection of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad. BUFFALO, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA RAILROAD. The Buffalo division is a single track line, extending from the city of Buffalo to Olean, and south to the Pennsylvania State line, a…
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Erie’s Narrow Gauge
The Laying of the Third Rail Advantages of the New Gauge New York Tribune. – In April last of the Erie Railway reorganized, and under the new management the familiar name was changed to New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. But the new management made other changes besides that of name. The most important…