The Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Railway today had permission of the Interstate Commerce commission to abandon its six-mile line between Youngstown and Lewiston.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington said the ICC authorized the move yesterday.
Wilbur H. Shumaker, president of the Youngstown Cold Storage company, owner of the line, said today that final permission must today that final permission must Service commission.
He said that no plans for removing track and equipment can be made until the PSC acts.
In its petition to the ICC the cold storage company, which purchased the railroad in 1929 from the Niagara Gorge Railway company, said that the growing use of trucks for shipping the Niagara county fruit crop had made continued operations of the line unprofitable and unnecessary.
Clarence Brocker, manager of the cold storage plant, said today that no fruit was shipped over it in 1949, and that thus far this year only two carloads of apples were moved by the company.
The firms rolling stock consists of an electric engine and two flatcars.
The possioility that the L. Y. and F. might be left without a connecting railroad also was pointed out by the company in its petition.
The New York Central railroad has applied for permission to abandon its branch line between the Suspension bridge and lewiston and an ICC examiner has recommended that the permission be granted.
Source: The Niagara Falls [NY] Gazette, p. 7, 22 July 1950, Fultonhistory.com