by Aa3rt
Could anyone help me find the date of the last passenger train through Mayville, NY? Mayville, the county seat of Chautauqua County, NY, had a lovely brick depot which still stands and serves as a historical museum. At one time, steamboats plying Chautauqua Lake met the PRR's passenger trains. Mayville would have been on the Oil City-Buffalo line.
PRR trains had trackage rights over the Nickel Plate from Brocton to Buffalo.
Anyhow, I recently came into possession of a photo that is supposedly of the last passenger train through Mayville. I was able to locate a date on June 9, 1953 for the last passenger run from Oil City to Corry, PA in "Western New York & Pennsylvania Railway" by Pietrak, Streamer and Van Brocklin but the Corry-Buffalo portion of the line, which would have included Mayville, is not mentioned.
PRR trains had trackage rights over the Nickel Plate from Brocton to Buffalo.
Anyhow, I recently came into possession of a photo that is supposedly of the last passenger train through Mayville. I was able to locate a date on June 9, 1953 for the last passenger run from Oil City to Corry, PA in "Western New York & Pennsylvania Railway" by Pietrak, Streamer and Van Brocklin but the Corry-Buffalo portion of the line, which would have included Mayville, is not mentioned.
Art Audley, AA3RT
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