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The New York & Lake Erie (reporting mark NYLE) is a class III railroad operating in Western New York. The NYLE was formed in 1978 to operate a portion of former Erie trackage that Conrail no longer wanted. Today, the railroad operates between Gowanda to Cherry Creek, New York.
The New York & Lake Erie Railroad has a depot in Gowanda, from which it runs both freight and occasional passenger rail service. The Cattaraugus Reservation is located to the northwest of the village.
The Blasdell station site in December 2014. Much of the line operated by the Buffalo and South Western Railroad still sees use. The Buffalo Southern Railroad operates the portion from Buffalo to the Erie County line at Gowanda and the New York and Lake Erie Railroad operates the line south from Gowanda to South Dayton, including an excursion train that runs in the summer.
A functional tunnel of the Underground Railroad, still in existence today, connects a former train drop-off area of the New York and Lake Erie Railroads near the foot of Gowanda-Zoar Road to an outlet on the property formerly owned by William and Evelyn (Merrill) Glazier, a local surgeon and nurse.
Erie Railroad trains joined the DL&W trains at the station in 1958. [6] Trains such as the Lake Cities, the Erie Limited and the Atlantic Express/Pacific Express served Chicago to the west and Hoboken to the east. (Erie trains that year also stopped using the company's Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City.) [7] The last long distance train was on ...
[12] [13] The last passenger train making stops there was the Lake Cities which was discontinued on January 6, 1970. The New York and Lake Erie Railroad operated between Salamanca and Gowanda until 1990. Today, the station houses the Salamanca Rail Museum. Two miles to the east, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway had an "East ...
It should not be confused with the South Buffalo Railway which is a separate railroad. The BSOR operates on 32 miles of track owned by Erie County, New York and leased from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. The line runs south from Buffalo, New York to Gowanda, New York servicing the villages of Hamburg and North Collins along the way.
Walnut Creek is joined by Tupper Brook north of the hamlet and flows northward to Lake Erie. [9] CR 85 at the Forestville–Hanover line. New York State Route 39 passes east–west through the hamlet as its main street and intersects county routes 85, 87, and 89. Route 39 leads east 12 miles (19 km) to Gowanda.