New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway
Predecessor of the West Shore Railroad.
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West Shore’s First Train
Will Reach Bufalo at 3:30 P.M. Today, Coming From Syracuse. SYRACUSE, Nov. 16. – The first through train on the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad from here to Buffalo left this morning at 8 o’clock. Among the officers on board were Theodore Houston, Vice-President of the road; J. E. Childs, Assistant General superintendent;…
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Workers Wanted
Wanted – Fifty teams to work on the West Shore railroad at East Buffalo; steady work;bwages $4 per day. Apply on work or at 62 Pearl st. Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 27 June 1883, p. 16, NYS Historic Newspapers.
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The West Shore
An 1883 article discussing the fear among some people in Rochester that the New York Central Railroad was planning to purchase the “West Shore and Buffalo” road, the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway. Though the writer dismissed this idea, the New York Central did lease the West Shore in December 1885. Source: Buffalo…