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Bradford & Foster Brook Peg Leg Railroad by Lawrence W. Kilmer Soft Cover
Bradford & Foster Brook Peg Leg Railroad by Lawrence W. Kilmer
Bradford & Foster Brook Peg Leg Railroad
Lawrence W. Kilmer
Soft Cover
206 Pages
Copyright 1974 First Printing
Contents
PrefaceIII
IntroductionV
CHAPTER ONE
BRADFORD & FOSTER BROOK PEG-LEG RAILROAD
Preliminaries2
Articles of Association2
Rail Building5
Loco-Status7
Genesis8
Progress9
(2) Maps12, 13
Competition14
Time Table15
Trouble Ahead15
The Disaster18
The Fatal Excursion19
Bradford Era, News Account20
What Mr. Allen Says21
The Peg-Leg Story, from the Pittsburgh Press21
End of The Line24
CHAPTER TWO
ST. BONAVENTURE RAILROAD
Map38
A Bonafide Achievement39
Father Plassmann Loses Distinction of
Head of College Railroad39
Locomotive and Track Service Record40
Lament of The Iron Horse42
St. Bona's Initial Run48
The St. Bona Limited, "300 Yards of Memories"48
CHAPTER THREE
SOUTH VANDALIA & STATE LINE RAILROAD
Chipmonk Territory56
Van Campen's Mill58
Map of Chipmonk Run59
Michael Shaffer's Mill and Railroad Empire60
Industrial Transformation of the Valley63
The Devonian Oil Interest A New Railroad69
Quinn's Chemical Company73
A Saloon-Keeper's Nightmare74
CHAPTER FOUR
OLEAN, BRADFORD & WARREN RAILROAD
Narrow-Gauge Railroad
Colorado of the East78
Map "Township of Cold Spring"83
Dawn at Big Level. Cold Spring Railroad Company,
April 30, 183981
Railroad Fever on and Around Big Level84
Turkey Path Railroad, 187284
Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad - Railway85
Building The Narrow Gauge86
Maps, Olean, N. Y. and Olean to the N. Y.-Pa.
State Line96, 97
Accidents Tragedies Stories98
The Red Rock Fire109
Wreck on the O.B. & W. Railroad113
Fun, Off and On The Track115
How's That Again?115
Poems117, 118, 119
Lillian Russell and John L. Sullivan120, 121
Olean Was a Railroad Center121
The Great Oil Transportation124
Oil Fields South of Olean128
Ever Changing Managements132
Declination of Operations133
Locomotive Rosters137
CHAPTER FIVE
WESTERN NEW YORK & PENNSYLVANIA
TRACTION COMPANY
Bradford & Kendall Street Railway140
Bradford Electric Railway Company144
Early, Olean, New York,
"From Stage Coaches to Trolley Cars"147
Stories Along the Line164
"The Rock of Ages" Rock City Park193
Flat Iron Rock194
Proposed Interurban Lines194
The Knell of A Romantic Era195
Rolling Stock and Mileage202
Maps203, 204, 205
Trolley Diagrams for the Model Craftsman178, 179, 180
Acknowledgments206
Not the least picturesque in the spectacular early days of McKean County was the "Peg-Leg" railroad, which ran from Bradford up the Foster Brook Valley to Red Rock, just beyond Derrick City where modern motorists turn left to go over the Rock City hill to Olean, N. Y.
Bradfordians and probably most of today's generation think of the elevated railroad as merely a legend , will agree with Mr. Beetle when he said; "About the biggest thing the monorail apparently has to overcome is its history."
The Bradford & Foster Brook Railway, which is the correct title according to documents, was one of 86 monorail systems that had been designed and tested, dating back to horsedrawn ones in England in 1821. Bradford's monorail had its short-lived existence and tragic ending almost a century ago.
New ideas and inventions were on display in Philadelphia at their Centennial Exposition in 1876. A working monorail train at the Exposition was carrying passengers back and forth across a small gorge and caused Col. Roy Stone of Cuba, New York, a visitor at the Exposition, to visualize the possibilities of a elevated railroad for Bradford.
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