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State & Union: Narrow-gauge railroad built during the oil boom
Earlier this week we wrote about Steve Bailey of Lippert Hollow Road and the abandoned railroad bed on property he owns above Two Mile Road. We asked railroad buffs for information and, well, railroad buffs responded.
Dave Poydock of Portville emailed: “It sounds to me like Mr. Bailey is talking about the Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad.”
Indeed he was right, affirms Larry Kilmer Jr., an Olean native and Eldred, Pa., resident who is a railroad historian and author. Kilmer’s father, Larry Sr., wrote about the narrow-gauge Olean, Bradford & Warren in his book about the Bradford & Foster Brook Peg Leg Railroad.
Michael D. Storey wrote:What I understand to be the only surviving car from this line can be viewed at the New York Museum of Transportation. Gift, in 1980, of Lynn Heintz
thebigham wrote:Someone posted this map on Facebook. I did not know about the 2nd line up the Two Mile valley.
pumpers wrote:thebigham wrote:Someone posted this map on Facebook. I did not know about the 2nd line up the Two Mile valley.
Do you know what book it is from? Thanks, Jim S
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