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Western New York And Pennsylvania Railway (1895–1955)
The Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway (earlier, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad) was a railroad that operated independently from 1887 to 1900 in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated in 1887 from the reorganization of the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad. It was reorganized in 1895 as the Western New York and Pennsylvania ''Railway.'' In 1900, it was acquired and leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1900. It was merged into the Penndel Company in 1955. History The line ran from Emporium, Pennsylvania, across the state line to Olean, Hinsdale, Cuba, Belfast, and Rochester in New York. From Belfast north, it was laid on the bed of the abandoned Genesee Valley Canal. In Rochester, a house of Italianate design was purchased on Main Street West at Trowbridge Street and converted for use as the railroad's station. From 1895 to 1899, the company drew too little revenue to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emporium, Pennsylvania
Emporium is a borough and the county seat of Cameron County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Early in the twentieth century, there were large power plants and manufacturers of radio tubes and incandescent lamps (Sylvania Electric Products), paving brick, flour, iron, lumber, and sole leather. In 1900, 2,463 people lived in Emporium, and in 1910, the population was 2,916. By 2010, the population had dropped to 2,073, and at the 2020 census, the population was 1,961. Geography Emporium is located in northern Cameron County at (41.511288, -78.236418). It is in the valley of the Driftwood Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek, flowing southeast towards the West Branch Susquehanna River. Pennsylvania Route 120 passes through the borough, leading southeast to Driftwood and eventually Lock Haven and Williamsport, and west to St. Marys on the Eastern Continental Divide. Pennsylvania Route 46 leads northwest from Emporium to Smethport, and Pennsylvania Route 155 leads north to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba (town), New York
Cuba is a town on the western border of Allegany County, New York, United States. The village of Cuba lies within its borders. The federally recognized tribe of Seneca Native Americans has a reservation on the western town line. As of the 2020 Census, the total population was 3,154. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (1.95%) is water. The west town line is the border of Cattaraugus County. The Southern Tier Expressway ( I-86 and NY 17) pass through the town, running east–west. NY 305 is a major north–south highway that intersects NY 446 in the village of Cuba. Cuba is on the main line of the Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad, which operates the former Erie Railroad between Hornell, New York and Meadville, Pennsylvania. Communities and locations in the town of Cuba * Black Creek – A former community in the town, now in the town of New Hudson. Black Creek is mentioned often in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Pennsylvania Railroads
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Youtube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Northeastern United States, originally connecting Pavonia Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey, with Lake Erie at Dunkirk, New York. The railroad expanded west to Chicago following its 1865 merger with the former Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, also known as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (NYPANO RR). The mainline route of the Erie Railroad proved influential in the development and economic growth of the Southern Tier of New York state, including the cities of Binghamton, Elmira, and Hornell. The Erie Railroad repair shops were located in Hornell and was Hornell's largest employer. Hornell was also where Erie's mainline split into two routes with one proceeding northwest to Buffalo and the other west to Chicago. On October 17, 1960, Erie Railroad merged with its former rival, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, to form the Erie Lackawanna Railway. The Hornell repair shops were closed in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short-line Railway
A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks. The term is used primarily in the United States and Canada. In the former, railroads are categorized by operating revenue, and most shortline railroads fall into the Class III or Class II categorization defined by the Surface Transportation Board. History At the beginning of the railroad age, nearly all railway lines were shortlines, locally chartered, financed and operated; as the railroad industry matured, local lines were merged or acquired to create longer mainline railroads. Especially since 1980 in the U.S. and 1990 in Canada, many shortlines have been established when larger railroad companies sold off or abandoned low-profit portions of their trackage. Shortline operators typically have lower labor, overhead and regulatory costs than Class I railroads and therefore are often able to operate profitable lines that los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Castle Branch (Pennsylvania Railroad)
The New Castle Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line ran from New Castle north to Stoneboro (later Mercer), and is now entirely abandoned. At its south end, the line intersected the Erie and Pittsburgh Branch and Mahoningtown Branch. When the New Castle Branch ended at Stoneboro, the PRR had trackage rights east along the New York Central Railroad's Stoneboro Branch to Oil City and the Allegheny Branch, Chautauqua Branch, and Salamanca Branch. The New Castle Branch (and the Wolf Creek Branch, a short spur of it) was the only part of the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway operated by the Pennsylvania Company as part of the Lines West of Pittsburgh rather than by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of the Lines East of Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Company also operated the trackage rights from Stoneboro to Oil City. History The New Castle and Franklin Railroad opened the line from New Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbutt, New York
Garbutt, New York is a hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ... in Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, New York (state), New York, United States. It is located within the town of Wheatland, New York, Wheatland between the village of Scottsville, New York, Scottsville and the hamlet of Mumford, New York, Mumford. It sits at the intersection of New York State Route 383, Scottsville-Mumford Road and New York State Route 259, Union Street. The hamlet grew rapidly through the mid-nineteenth century, but starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the collapse of the local economy caused the population to severely decline. History In its 19th-century prime, Garbutt boasted a train station and rail yard, service by two railroad companies, several indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottsville, New York
Scottsville is a village (New York), village within the town of Wheatland, New York, Wheatland in Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 2,009 at the 2020 census. The village is named after an early settler, Isaac Scott (pioneer), Isaac Scott, and is within the Rochester metropolitan area, New York, Rochester metropolitan area. History Isaac Scott, one of the first settlers, arrived in 1790 and purchased of land from owners who lived in Great Britain. The land covered much of what is now the village of Scottsville. Scott's log house was at the southwest corner of Main and Rochester streets in the village. The following sites are on the National Register of Historic Places: Isaac Cox Cobblestone Farmstead, Cox–Budlong House, Grace Church (Scottsville, New York), Grace Church, David McVean House, Simeon Sage House, William Shirts House, Union Presbyterian Church (Scottsville, New York), Union Presbyterian Church, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia And Erie Railroad
The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania between 1861 and 1907. It was subsequently merged into the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). History The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company (also known as the Erie and Sunbury Railroad) was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1837, to build a rail line connecting towns between Sunbury and Erie, Pennsylvania. Due to financial problems, the company did not begin construction until the state passed enabling legislation, which including reducing tax assessments, in 1852. By December 1854, of track were completed between Milton (a junction with the Catawissa Railroad) and Williamsport. The line reached Sunbury in 1855, a total of . The company continued to experience financial problems, exacerbated by the Panic of 1857. The tracks reached Lock Haven in 1859. To speed completion of the line, the Sunbury & Erie also started building towards the southeast from Erie. That porti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegheny Valley Railroad (1852–1892)
The Allegheny Valley Railroad was a railway company in the United States. It was incorporated in 1852 and constructed its original line between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Kittanning, Pennsylvania, between 1853 and 1856. It eventually owned , including its main line between Pittsburgh and Oil City, Pennsylvania. The company entered receivership in 1884 and was reorganized as the Allegheny Valley Railway in 1892. That company was leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1900 and merged in 1910. History What became the Allegheny Valley Railroad was authorized as the Pittsburg, Kittanning and Warren Railroad on April 4, 1837. Nothing was done until April 14, 1852, when the Pennsylvania General Assembly reauthorized the railroad under the new name. This renewed interest was prompted by the exploitation of oil in the vicinity of Titusville, Pennsylvania, to the north. The line opened between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Kiskiminetas River in 1855. It was further extended to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
