New York Railroad Archive

Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad

  • The First Thirty Years of Our Railway

    This is an article from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway employees magazine from December 1920. It is an interesting view of the history of the railroad, including its predecessors, including the Rochester and State Line Railroad, and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad. Source: Scan from Google Books.

  • 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…

  • Stations Burglarized

    Last Tuesday night, the Ellicottville station on the Rochester and Pittsburg road, was burglarized for the third time in six months. The Great Valley station was entered the same night. Tramps are supposed to have committed the deed. The plunder obtained was not valuable. Source: The Olean [NY] Democrat, 17 March 1885, p. 6, NYS…

  • 1883 Inspection Report of 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…

  • War Over a Railroad Track

    A May 28, 1883 article from The (NY) Evening Post describing the battles between the Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to build their respective tracks over a plot of land near Buffalo. The Rochester and Pittsburgh was in the process at that time of building their line from Buffalo…

  • First R&P Train to Perry

    The first Rochester & Pittsburg train into Perry arrived there at 11:30 a. m., July 5th, drawn by engine number seven, Shell Hess, engineer, S. H. Dasonboy, fireman, Superintendent Merchant’s private car containing the following persons: George E. Merchant, general manager, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad; E. G. Matthews, general superintendent, Silver Lake railroad; J. P.…