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Annual Report of New York State Railroad Commissioners, 1885, Vol. 1 PP 331-332 Inspection of Tonawanda Valley and Cuba Railroad A three-feet gauge railroad, fifty-nine miles in length, extending from Attica to Cuba. Early in December of last year the joint management, under one supervision, of thi...

Beeliner service never operated on the Auburn Branch. Back in the late 1930s and early 1940s a gas electric car furnished morning and evening commuter service between Syracuse and Geneva. Still earlier they operated on the "Peanut" line west from Canandaigua and in the early 1930s they wer...

I have about 500 New York State Railroad postcards and I have two blogs: CNYMOD.Blogspot.com with over 600 New York State railroad postcards trolleycards.blogspot.com with several hundred New York State trolleys. I have written about 20 books on local railroads and am librarian-archivist for the Cen...

I posted those notes on the Central Valley Railroad and have written a book about it. $10 plus $4 for postage to Richard Palmer, 224 Arnold Ave., Syracuse, NY 13210. It included a map and images. The railroad never reached the hamlet of Smithville Flats but stopped out in the country about a half mi...

I found out this series of hoppers (43000-43029) were modified at the Sayre car shops in 1960, with sides built up by about two feet in order to increase their capacity. Originally built in 1929 by Bethlehem Steel, these 40-foot cars originally in the 41000 series were used on the LV’s State Line &a...

Looking for information and/or photos of the LV's 43000 series wood chip hoppers. The information I have states the cars were converted
from the 41000 series in 1960. The ORER's reflect revenue service from 1961 through 1963.

All anyone would ever wish to know about the history of the cut-off, including costs, photos, blueprints, etc., etc. is available at the archives at Steamtown. Also, the entire collection of 15,000 glass plate negatives has now been scanned.

The only round Phoebe Snow drum head I recall seeing was occasionally when the business car was being operated at the end of the train.

It is fairly common knowledge that wireless telegraph was introduced on the DL&W in 1913 and remained in use until 1917 when it was discontinued due to World War I. However, my research reveals wireless radio was then introduced on the line in 1922. Here are some newspaper clippings I found in a...

Geneva Times, December 4, 1959 At One Time Ran to Willard -- Hayts Corners-Ovid Branch Rail Line Now History; Tracks Gone ____ By Elizabeth McElroy OVID - With two and two-tenths miles of branch line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad abandoned from Hayts Corners to Ovid, purchasers of tis abandoned trac...

Locomotives (all 4-4-0's) that pulled the funeral train across New York State and on to Cleveland were: New York - Rensselaer -Hudson River RR - "Constitution," Pilot engine, "Union" Albany - Utica - New York Central - Pilot engine, "Chauncey Vibbard," train, "Edwa...

Pullman Cars Assigned to Lehigh Valley Railroad 12 Section, 1 Drawing Room Alexander 1901 wood Amethyst 1899 wood To Tourist Car 4550; returned 4-1920. Destroyed by Pullman 4-1926 Aurelian 1901 wood Destroyed by Pullman 8-1923 Corinthian 1898 wood To Tourist Car 4610 2-1920; returned and destroyed b...

Most Lehigh Valley historians are aware the road had an unusual number of gas electric cars starting in the mid 1920s. However, new evidence shows they were experimenting with then as early as 1908. Contrary to newspaper accounts, however, none were purchased at this early date, as far as can be det...

Plan of Lehigh Valley freight house at Freeville, N.Y. appeared in Feb., 1963 issue of Model Railroader. Structure was demolished in 1978.

On Oct. 22, 1897 the Elmira Daily Gazette reported: Announcement is made that passenger service will be inaugurated on the new Seneca county railroad between Geneva and Waterloo on Sunday, October 24th. The trains on this division will make close connections with Lehigh trains to and from Buffalo an...