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Area Railroad Abandonments

Contributed by Richard Palmer - 2/2007

Arcade & Attica - North Java - Attica - 13.22 miles - 1957
Attica & Freedom - Cuba - Freedom- 26.09 miles - 1894 - 3-ft. gauge
Bradford, Eldred & Cuba - Cuba to Little Genesee - 19.40 miles - 1889 - 3-ft. gauge
Bradford, Eldred & Cuba -  Ceres - Eldred, Pa. - 9.46 miles - 1893 - 3-ft. gauge
Bradford, Eldred & Cuba -  Wellsville - Little Genesee - 18.7 miles - 1893 - 3-ft. gauge
Bradford, Eldred & Cuba -  Bolivar-Richburg branch - 1.9 miles - 1885 -3-ft. gauge
Buffalo, Attica & Arcade - Arcade - Crystal Lake - 8 miles - 1902 - 3- ft. gauge
Buffalo & Susquehanna - Wellsville - Buffalo - 89.70 miles - 1916
Central New York & Western - Bolivar - Angelica - 21.24 miles - 1893 - 3-ft. gauge. Rebuilt,      1902 to standard gauge by Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern
Central New York & Western - Belfast Jct. - Angelica - 7 miles - 1894 - Standard gauge
Erie-Lackawanna (ex-Erie) - River line - Cuba Jct. - Hunt Jct. - 32.6 miles - 1976
Erie-Lackawanna (ex-Erie) Mainline - Olean-Hornell - 63 miles (now Western N.Y. & Pennsylvania)
Erie-Lackawanna (ex-Erie Bradford Branch) Limestone - Bradford, Pa. - 3.7 miles - 1976
Erie-Lackawanna (ex-Erie) Niobe Jct. - Corry, Pa. - 9.3 miles - 1979 (Abandoned by Conrail)
Kendall & Eldred - Bradford- Eldred - 18 miles 3 ft. gauge 1893
New York & Pennsylvania - Canisteo - Ceres - 57 miles - 1936
Olean, Bradford & Warren - Olean - Warren, Pa. via Bradford, Pa., 63 miles - 1896 - 3 ft. gauge
Olean, Oswayo & Eastern - (See New York & Pensylvania)
Pennsylvania - Allegany Branch - Olean - Allegany - 3 miles - 1972
Pennsylvania - Allegany - West Salamanca - 19.7 miles - 1965
Pennsylvania - West Salamanca - Struthers, Pa. - 37.6 miles - 1962
Pennsylvania - Rochester Branch - Hinsdale - Wadsworth Jct. - 84 miles - 1963
Pennsylvania - Scottsville - Garbut - 2.9 miles - 1944
Pennsylvania - Rochester - Wadsworth Jct. - 14.50 miles - 1971
Pennsylvania Nunda - Nunda Jct. 2.2 miles - 1963
Pennsylvania Nunda - Swains Jct. 10.9 miles - 1908
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern - Wayland Junction - State Line - 69.34 miles - 1946
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern - Moraine - Hornell - 10.38 miles - 1946
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern - Prosser - (State Line Junction) - Olean - 9 miles - 1946
Tonawanda Valley & Cuba - (See Attica & Freedom)
Wellsville, Addison & Galeton - Galeton - Burrows - 5.9 miles - 1956
Wellsville, Addison & Galeton - Addison- Elkland, Pa. - 14.20 miles - 1960 - standard gauge (ex-B&O/Buffalo & Susquehanna/Addison & Northern Pennsylvania which was originally 3-foot gauge)
Wellsville, Addison & Galeton - Wellsville - Galeton, Pa. - 36.90 miles - 1973 - standard gauge (ex-B&O/B&S)
Wellsville, Addison & Galeton - Nichols, Pa. - Elkland, Pa. - 6.30 miles - 1963 - standard gauge (ex-B&O/B&S)
Wellsville, Addison & Galeton - Westfield - Ansonia - 22 miles - 1976 - Final run, 1976 (ex-B&O/B&S)

Electric Railroads:
Olean, Bradford & Salamanca - Salamanca - Little Valley - 8.4 miles - Discontinued Sept. 14, 1925
Olean, Bradford & Salamanca - Bolivar - Ceres - 8.3 miles - Discontinued Feb. 5, 1926
Olean, Bradford & Salamanca All remaining lines including Olean streetcar line, 52.6 miles, Sept.
27, 1927

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