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The owners of the Buffalo and State Line Railroad were able to acquire 2 ⁄ 3 of the Erie and North East's stock, [1] and on November 16, 1853, they announced that they would re-lay the 6 ft (1,829 mm) track between Erie and the New York border using the narrower Ohio gauge, [5] but four months earlier, to try to prevent the change, Erie's ...
Erie and New York City Railroad: Erie main line at Salamanca: Pennsylvania Line near Niobe in Harmony: 47.7 miles (76.8 km) 1868–1880, 1874–1880, 1883-1960 Founded in 1862, as all three railroads merged were renamed in their respective states as the A&GW Railway. Reorganized as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway in 1880 Meadville ...
From The New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, Nov. 14, 1895— Constructed by The New York and Erie Railroad Company— Piermont to Dunkirk, N. Y., 1835-1851 447.828 Greycourt to Newburgh, N. Y., 1845-1850 19.098 Constructed by The Buffalo and New York City Railroad Company— Hornellsville to Attica, N. Y., 1852-1854 62.281
In Erie, Pennsylvania, the 6 ft (1,829 mm) Erie Railroad terminated while adjacent railroads used 4 ft 10 in (1,473 mm) gauge, also known as "Ohio gauge." That led to the Erie Gauge War in 1853–54, when the Erie mayor and citizens temporarily prevented a gauge standardization, because there would then be less trans-shipping work and through ...
By the mid-1870s it ran between Croxton and Sterling Forest at the New York state line, but the financially unstable railroad went into receivership, and in 1875 became the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railway [2] [4] In 1878 the company was re-organized as the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway (NYGL), under control of the Erie. [5] In 1887 ...
New York NY-33: Erie Railway, Hornell Station 1971 Shop Hornell: Steuben: New York NY-34: Erie Railway, Hornell Erecting Shop 1971 Shop Hornell: Steuben: New York NY-35: Erie Railway, Corning Side Hill Cut 1971 Cut Corning: Steuben: New York NY-36: Erie Railway, Elmira Station 1971 Station Elmira: Chemung: New York NY-37: Erie Railway ...
The Graham Line (also known as the Guymard Cutoff) is the portion of the former Erie Railroad in New York State from Highland Mills (at about ) to Guymard (at about ), constructed from 1906 to 1909 as a high-speed freight
Red House was a passenger and freight station and signal tower for the Erie Railroad in the hamlet of Red House in Cattaraugus County, New York.. The station was located 421.3 miles (678.0 km) from New York and 577.2 miles (928.9 km) from Chicago.