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Elmira and Chemung Valley Trolleys in the Southern Tier by William Gordon
Elmira and Chemung Valley Trolleys in the Southern Tier by William Gordon
Soft Cover Name stamped on first page, center pages are loose.
168 pages
Copyright 1970?
CONTENTS
Introduction and Sources 1- 2
Elmira and Horseheads Railway Company - 1871 3- 6
Maple Avenue Railroad Company - 1887 6- 7
West Water Street Railroad Company - 1890 8
West Side Street Railroad Company - 1891 8- 12
Elmira, Water, Light & Railroad Company Company - Early 1900's 12- 13
Rorick's Glen 13- 15
Elmira Light, Heat & Power Corp. Corporate History - 1932 16- 18
Last Days - Memories - Accidents 18- 25
Birney's and Roster 25- 29
The Elmira & Seneca Lake Railway (Glen Route) (1900) 82-101
Elmira, Corning & Waverly Traction Company (1906) 101-122
Waverly, Sayre & Athens Traction Company (1896) 123-142
Corning & Painted Post Street Railway (1895) 143-153
Hornellsville Electric Railroad Company (1891) 154-170
About This Book
It was started in 1954 in Elmira and completed in 1970. Meanwhile your author of trolleys in N.Y. State hasn't been idle as this is my eleventh book: Chemung Valley's Trolleys in the Southern Tier, including a chapter on the Hornell and Canisteo Traction Company.
This is strictly an electric book. It covers the horse cars of Mark Twain's time, open trolleys to Eldridge Park and Rorick's Glen and to the Fair Grounds at Watkins, over the "Glen Route" interurbans of the Elmira and Seneca Lake Line.
The fast wooden interurbans (last ones built by Jewett Car Company) ran along the Erie Railroad east on to Broad Street, Waverly from Elmira and west on to Market Street, in Corning. This was the Elmira, Corning and Waverly Railway Co.
Included in this book is the Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Co. Since Sayre and Athens are in Pennsylvania, I have crossed the line and plan to do so again with the Western N.Y. and Penn Traction Company, better known as the Olean, Bradford and Salamanca Traction Company and later two lines out of Warren, Penn. to Sheffield, Penn. and Jamestown, N.Y. to tie in with the two lines to Westfield around Chautauqua Lake, J.W. & N.W. Traction and Chautauqua Lake Traction line, "The Scenic Route".
On Corning and Painted Post Street Railway, from Corning, home of the Corning Glass Works, the four wheel trolleys carried workers to and from Painted Post, home of the Ingersoll-Rand Company, and farther west a chapter of the Hornell & Canisteo Railway.
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