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Summary
Buffalo & Susquehanna
May 13, 1907
Death of Frank Henry Goodyear,
Buffalo
,
NY
February 1908 Number of Galeton employees discharged
1909 Several
employees discharged resulting in Strike on B&S
1910 B&S
Railway & Railroad into Receivership
April 1911
Death of Charles W. Goodyear
May 31, 1913
Last train on Cross Fork branch
December 31, 1913
-- B&S Railroad Corporation took over B&SRR Company
July 16, 1916
54000 feet roadway lost from
Sinnemahoning Flood
November 1916
Wellsville & Buffalo RR track taken up
March 6, 1917
Buffalo
Attica & Arcade RR into
Receivership
1925 Coal
Mines closing
1932
Baltimore
and
Ohio
acquired B&S and
Buffalo
Rochester
&
Pittsburgh
Railroads
July 1942
Sinnemahoning Flood Due to Damage Track removed Sinnemahoning to
Burrows and Wharton to
Austin
. B&O
now created a divorced section away from the main B&O.
November 19, 1949
Last scheduled passenger train
leaves
Addison
.
1955 B&O
RR sells Galeton Section to H.E.Salzbert Company of NYC for reportedly
$250,000. Potter
Enterprise
calls it Biggest Steal since the
Brinks Holdup.

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