Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad
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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…
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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…
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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…