Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad

  • Bad Shawmut Wreck

    Coal Train Ran Away Sunday Morning, This Side of Clermont.One Man Killed, 23 Cars Wrecked. A Shawmut Line coal train, consisting of mountain type engine, No. 53, 34 cars of coal, a car of lumber, a car of tile and a caboose ran away down the hill from Clermont, at 4 o’clock Sunday morning, and…

  • Standard Gauge

    First Train Reached Bolivar on Sunday, November 24. The first standard gauge train to run into Bolivar reached the Shawmut station at five o’clock, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 24, a date to jot down in your diary. A work train drawn by Engine 9 with S.E. Heers at the throttle and John Jacques in the fireman’s…

  • Articles About the Lackawanna 
and Southwestern Railroad

    The following is a collection of short newspaper articles about the Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad, a predecessor of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut and Northern Railroad.  These articles are from the Bolivar Breeze newspaper in Bolivar, NY and were provided by Richard Palmer. October 1, 1892 The L.& S.W. Sold The Lackawanna & Southwestern railroad property was…