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313: 129: 357: 25: 324:, resulting in passenger service on the New York & Lake Erie Railroad being suspended until late 2012. As of late 2016, the New York and Lake Erie offers a variety of excursion opportunities throughout the year with most trips ending in either Dayton or South Dayton and occasionally Cherry Creek. Operations South of Cherry Creek remain out of service. 336:
and restore full rail service between Gowanda and Jamestown by 2019, then Buffalo (through a connecting railroad) by 2020. Despite the objections of Cattaraugus County (who accused the railroad of proposing the project as a grant-money scam), the state and city of Jamestown announced its support for
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grant in June 2016 totaling $ 732,768 to be put towards a rail rehabilitation project that the railroad will embark on between South Dayton and Cherry Creek. The goal is to replace a switch at the NY&LE's southern end at
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service on the portion of the Dayton-Cattaraugus fork that remains usable. A separate rail bike service has proposed using the unusable portion of the rail, but this would require substantial renovations.
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a feasibility study for the project in May 2017. As of June 2018, restoration plans for the southern portion of the NYLE remain in the planning stages.
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in the early 2000s, while the portion north of Cattaraugus was damaged by floods and landslides in the 2010s and is also no longer operational.
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and the railroad tracks and depot in South Dayton, along with other portions of the village, were featured in the 1983
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NYLE 6758 switching tracks in preparation to couple to passenger cars in South Dayton, NY.
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The Gowanda station in May 2015, with NYLE equipment on the tracks to the left
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NYLE was used as the setting for railroad scenes in the 1987 film
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IDA won't contribute to rail study for Buffalo-to-Jamestown line
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In August 2023, the NY&LE announced a proposal to introduce
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The right-of-way was damaged by the 2009 flooding of the
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no longer wanted. Today, the railroad operates between
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Gowanda, New York
Reporting mark
New York
Track gauge
standard gauge
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class III railroad
New York
Conrail
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Cherry Creek, New York
Buffalo, New York
WNYP
Southern Tier Line
Waterboro
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