Will Reach Bufalo at 3:30 P.M. Today, Coming From Syracuse.
SYRACUSE, Nov. 16. – The first through train on the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad from here to Buffalo left this morning at 8 o’clock. Among the officers on board were Theodore Houston, Vice-President of the road; J. E. Childs, Assistant General superintendent; E. L. Carthell, Chief Engineer, and H. W. Gardner, Superintendent of the Syracuse Division. They occupied Mr. Childs’ private car. Very few stops will be made. They expect to arrive in Buffalo at about 3:30 P. M. A special time table was made for the trip to avoid any accident with “constructions,” of which there are 40 between here and the western terminus of the road. The officers of the Syracuse division removed to their new quarters in the station building which has just been completed at a cost of $200, 000.
Source: Buffalo [NY] Evening News, 16 November 1883, p. 5, NYS Historic Newspapers.