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The Franklin Canal Company was chartered on May 21, 1844, and built a railroad from Erie, Pennsylvania, southwest to the Ohio border.The Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad was incorporated February 18, 1848, [2] to build northeast from Cleveland, to join the Canal Company's railroad at the state line, and the full line from Erie to Cleveland, opened November 20, 1852.
The power used by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway had a broader range than that of most Eastern roads of the steam era. [10] [11] From a tiny two-foot-gauge 0-4-0 switcher used in their cross-tie factory [note 17] and the eleven Brooks-built "American" style 4-4-0 engines inherited from the Rochester and State Line Railroad to the massive Alco 2-6-6-2 and 2-8-8-2 Mallets used as ...
The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania.The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Rockville, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.
Founded in 1848, the line opened in 1852. The railroad completed the rail link between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The CP&A connected at the state line with the Franklin Canal Company (FCC), a Pennsylvania company. The FCC and CP&A shared the same track gauge, and the CP&A operated both rail lines.
This railroad line was built by two companies, the Buffalo and State Line Railroad in New York and the Erie and North East Railroad in Pennsylvania. It opened in 1852. [1] Through mergers, leases, and takeovers, it became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, New York Central Railroad, Penn Central, and Conrail.
State Line Railroad: B&O: 1890 1895 Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad: State Line Railroad: B&O: 1884 1893 Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburg Railroad: State Line and Sullivan Railroad: LV: 1874 1949 Lehigh Valley Railroad: Stewart Railroad: NYC: 1887 1963 Mahoning and Shenango Valley Railway: Stewartstown Railroad: STRT 1884 1992 Continued as a ...
The properties of the Pittsburgh and State Line and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Company were operated as a unit by the latter until March 23, 1886, on which date the Pennsylvania courts, in response to the action of the minority stockholders of the Rochester and Pittsburgh (No. 2) appointed a receiver for the Pittsburgh and ...
Still exists as a nonoperating subsidiary of CSX Transportation, leased to the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad: Buffalo and South Western Railroad: ERIE: 1877 1895 Erie Railroad: Buffalo and State Line Railroad: NYC: 1848 1867 Buffalo and Erie Railroad: Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad: B&O: 1954 1954 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Buffalo and ...