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Canisteo Academy, who came from as far as Pennsylvania, spending the week at boarding houses, and returning home on weekends. According to the 1897 Sanford Fire Insurance Map, the route in the village of Canisteo was from the Erie line south, then NW to SE across Depot St., just north of the Taylor Chair factory and the Pearl Button Works. Then came its garage and storage yard (tracks). There were 8 short
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Academy Street platform. According to two timetables, 15 minutes were used in traversing the 0.6 miles (0.97 km) between the Erie Depot and the Academy Street stations, so the train went through the village at 2.4 miles per hour (3.9 km/h), a walking pace.
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Genesee. The company was at that time the Olean, Oswayo, and Eastern Railway Company, incorporated in 1892. Service began in 1893. The line merged with the New York and Pennsylvania Railway Company, incorporated in 1895,
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Canisteo and Genesee was suspended in 1916 after extensive flood damage, including "several bad washouts". 9 miles (14 km) of track were removed between Whitesville and Genesee. Liquidation of the railroad was proposed, since it had failed to pay dividends (earn a profit). After
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lines to various businesses. The route turned south, and crossed Main Street (now East Main Street) just east of the Fire
Department. The station and company offices were just south of Main Street. Remains of freight facilities are on each side of the route north and south of 5th Street. The route
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Canisteo, the eastern end of the line. (Actually the end was at the Erie Railroad depot, just north of Canisteo.) Besides the Erie Railroad stop and the main stop in downtown Canisteo, the railroad had a third stop in Canisteo, at Academy Street, for
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The flood of 1935 washed bridges and tracks away for 10 miles (16 km) south of
Canisteo. Since the line, in its entirety in need of renovation, had been losing money for years, and had little hope of regaining profitability, shareholders voted to end operations. In 1935 the railroad had 24
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a change in ownership, a new corporation (New York & Pennsylvania Railway), and the raising of new capital, the damage was repaired, the track replaced, a new trestle over Bennett's Creek built in Canisteo, and service for freight only was restored in 1920.
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Between Canisteo and Rexville the New York & Pennsylvania used the grading done in 1872–1873 for the unbuilt and scandal-ridden Rochester, Hornellsville, and Pine Creek Railroad (RHP). Construction of that railroad came to a halt at the Panic of 1873.
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Main figures are Harry L. Somers, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Canisteo, and Guy M. Beasor, General Manager of the New York and Pennsylvania Railroad. Both described as "Canisteo men".
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extending service in 1896 northeastward to its junction with the
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852:"Say N. Y. & Pa. Railroad Is to be Sold as Junk"
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1062:Citation.
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250:Route map
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