Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
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Olean, Bradford and Salamanca Railway
The Olean, Bradford & Salamanca Railway Co. has been organized to take over and operate the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Co. lines. The company is composed of New York and Olean men. Source: The Cato [NY] Citizen and Tri-County Leader, 8 September 1921, Fultonhistory.com
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Sale of Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad Line
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, Buffalo, N. Y. – The abandoned property of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad between Buffalo and Wellsville has been bought by a syndicate consisting of C. A. Finnegan and Theodore Hofeller, Buffalo, and Abraham Weber, of S. Weber & Son, Louisville, Ky. The purchase price was $800,000, the obligations outstanding being…
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Option on Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Railway
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – The property of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway between Wellsville and Buffalo, on which W. R. Page, president Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, had an option, was recently sold at foreclosure to M. G. Bogue, representing the bondholders’ committee. It is officially…
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Interest in Former Buffalo and Susquehanna Line
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – W. R. Page, president Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, and associates have taken an option on the line of the old Buffalo & Susquehanna Railway from Wellsville to Buffalo. If the option is exercised it will be done independently of the electric…
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Proposed WNY&P Traction Route to Cuba, NY
This clipping is the only reference I have found to the WN&P Traction Company thinking about expanding to Cuba. The plan does not appear to make economic sense as the main line of the Erie Railroad ran between Olean and Cuba and the Erie could meet any demand for passenger or freight service between the…
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WNY&P Traction / Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y.-This company has been asked to buy the Buffalo-Susquehanna Railway extending between Buffalo and Wellsville. The proposition is to electrify the Buffalo-Susquehanna Railway which would provide an outlet into Buffalo. It is understood the Chamber of Commerce of Olean and the towns of Friendship, Franklinville, Wellsville…
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WN&P Traction Interest in Former Buffalo & Susquehanna
Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y. – J. B. Olmsted, Buffalo, N. Y., chairman of the committee representing bondholders and stockholders of the Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad, has confirmed a report that the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company has been investigating the abandoned Buffalo & Susquehanna section between Buffalo…
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Big Power Plant
Olean. – Contractors have begun to figure on plans and specifications for the new $250,000 power plant of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company. It will be located on Fifteenth and Irving streets just south of the original Olean Rock City & Bradford Car Line, The building will have a frontage of 176…
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Cloudbursts on Southern Tier
Traffic on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railway in standstill. The Erie, between Buffalo and Jamestown, is also tied up by floods and washouts. In Salamanca the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, which runs the trolley system in Salamanca and Olean, is badly crippled. A washout four miles East of Salamanca will prevent…
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Complaint Against Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company
The Public Service Commission of the Second District of New York has received a complaint from residents of Bolivar, Allegany County, protesting against the equipment, track and service of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Traction Company, Olean, N. Y., in Bolivar. It is stated that the track is unsafe; that the schedule calls for…