YOUNGSTOWN, May 3-Once a part of the quaint countryside picture, because of its diminutiveness, the locomotive of the Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Railway has been broken down and marked for a junk yard. The tender alone survived because of its promise of being able to serve as a flat car.
Louis S. Silberberg, president of the lines, decided it was too heavy for the tracks.
In place of the old locomotive is a new Diesel oil engine, weighing fifteen tons and having a 100-horse-power drive.
It will shift the cars of coal from the New York Central siding at Lewiston to the boat landing there; carry supplies to Stella Niagara school and Fort Niagara, and haul away the produce of the orchards.
Having only six miles of track, besides the sidings. the line is said to be one of the shortest in the state and the country.
Source: Lockport [NY] Union-Sun and Journal, 3 May 1937, p. 5, Fultonhistory.com.