Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad
The Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of New York. Despite its name, it only existed in the immediate vicinity of Greigsville, a small community in the town of York, and did not reach Pearl Creek, a hamlet in Covington.
History
[edit]The company was organized October 1, 1897 and chartered January 26, 1898,[1] to build from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line at North Greigsville (present-day Greigsville[2]) west to the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway at Pearl Creek. Three miles (5 km) were constructed from the DL&W to the Greigsville Salt Mine, but the mine closed in June 1899, and operations were suspended.[3]
The actual location of Greigsville Salt Mine is not clear. Mindat puts the mine on a residential street (Virginia Avenue),[4] but the USGS Topographic map puts the mine at the end of an unnamed road to the northwest.[5] The railroad would have extended past the mine by at least the length of one train, in order to be able to load the entire train from one point.[original research?]
References
[edit]- ^ Greigsville and Pearl Creek chartered
- ^ F. W. Beers & Co., Livingston County, 1872
- ^ New York State Public Service Commission, Third Annual Report of the Public Service Commission Second District for the Year Ended December 31, 1909: Volume II, p. 147
- ^ Mindat's Greigsville Mine entry
- ^ ACME Mapper
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