Chaffee, which was sometimes spelled “Chafee”, is a hamlet in the town of Sardinia, Erie County, NY. It was a stop on the Buffalo Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The railroad station was on the west side of the tracks at the foot of Briggs Street, near where the volunteer fire station now stands.
History
The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway, formerly the Buffalo and Washington Railway, built the line through Chaffee in 1872. The line was operated by the BNY&P (1872 – 1887), the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (1887 – 1895), the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway (1895 – 1900), the Pennsylvania Railroad (1900 – 1968), the Penn Central Railroad (1968 – 1976), Conrail (1976 – 1999) and the Norfolk Southern Railroad (1999 – 2007). In 2008 Norfolk Southern leased the segment from Buffalo to Machias Junction to the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad.
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- Wikipedia. “Chaffee, New York“