Jamestown New York to Buiffalo to Niagara Falls Commuter Rail moving ahead

[CandOforprogress2]

Jamestown NY Train Station-

Buffalo New Train Station-

Niagara Falls Train Station-

[Miningman]

Fine fine looking buildings. I've read 'bad reviews' cutting up the look. I think people have no idea what they are talking about. The interior depictions are beautiful. The matching building, same but different, in Niagara Falls is very nice. Mazel Tov!

[MidlandMike]

All the reasonably direct rail lines between Buffalo and Jamestown have been severed or abandoned.  What is the proposed route?  Do you have a link to an article on this?  The link to the Jamestown station won't open.

[CandOforprogress2]

The EL line is intact btwn Jamestown via Randolf NY to Cherry Creek to Hamburg to Blaisdale NY where it will use CSX right of way using Amtrak rights to Buffalo Station. Its going to be a bloody war but it will get done. Money is going to come from Metro North as we are tired of subsidizing downstate. Cuomo needs our votes in the next election from Western NY

[MidlandMike]

SPV rail atlas showed the line abandoned south of Cherry Creek, however, I checked satellite view and you can follow the track almost all the way to the old Erie mainline, but it disappears in the weeds just before the connection.

[CandOforprogress2]

Its there under da swamp

[bedell]

We used to live along the line in question - Markhams, NY - so I am familiar with the area.  I'm finding it hard to comprehend that this could be a serious proposal.  Who would actually use a commuter train on a route from Jamestown to Buffalo to Niagara Falls?  Perhaps there would be some demand for service from Hamburg area into Buffalo.  

Many years ago there was a demonstration trial with a railbus as far south as North Collins.  Nothing ever came of it.

Happy Trails.

 

[CandOforprogress2]

Would be nice if I had a pic of that railbus

[bedell]

As far as I can remember it was  a Leyland railbus from England.  There are plenty of pictures on the web.

[Overmod]

bedell

As far as I can remember it was a Leyland railbus from England.

Survives to this day, I think in a neglected back corner at the Branford trolley museum.

Rated for 100mph.  Deserves much better attention than it has gotten.  As with the Schools class formerly at Steamtown, there's a support group in England that wants to 'repatriate' it to Blighty -- heaven knows they'll have more support restoring and operating it than we would be able to get.

[CandOforprogress2]

The Leyland railbus ran in Cleveland-Mentor-Painsville Ohio in 1988 via NS Nickle Plate-RTA Rapid. Cleveland RTA was concerned that the british railbus was as badly  designed as a MG Motercar

[MidlandMike]

Its hard to understand the commuter aspect of the Jamestown Buffalo segment.  It sounds like Jamestown just wants to have passengr srvice.  It seems a Buffalo- Dinkirk commuter line would be easer to start, and would serve the Thruway/Lake Erie Shore corridor.  There could be a bus connector to Jamestown.

[CandOforprogress2]

Western New York is under 3 feet of snow for most of the year. Commuter trains can bust thru the deep snow and cold. Buffalo is growing its medical and heart hospitals and thanks to peirogies and chicken wings buisness is booming. We have a nursing school down here in the southern tier but the jobs are up north in Buffalo. We have the avantange of public ownership of most of the track  to Buffalo which in other citys would cost billions to build from scratch. The track despirtly needs to be upgraded to accmidate 100 ton hopper cars and having passengers sweetens the pot for Federal and State Legialtors to get public money to upgrade the tracks for both industrial and passenger use. Also Jamestown and the southiern teir lost its public airline last year.

[MidlandMike]

Jamestown seems a long stretch for Buffalo's first foray into commuter rail.

[54light15]

In Buffalo, it's not just the Pierogies and chicken wings, it's the evil salt on those "Beef on Weck" sandwiches. 

[bill613a]

The Briyish Leyland Railbus ran from the Terminal Tower east on the RTA Red line to the Windemere station where it connected to the NS line and ran to Mentor in May 1985. There was talk of a run from dowtown out to Strongsville but nothing happened. 

CandOforprogress2

The Leyland railbus ran in Cleveland-Mentor-Painsville Ohio in 1988 via NS Nickle Plate-RTA Rapid. Cleveland RTA was concerned that the british railbus was as badly  designed as a MG Motercar

 

[NKP guy]

bill613a

The Briyish Leyland Railbus ran from the Terminal Tower east on the RTA Red line to the Windemere station where it connected to the NS line and ran to Mentor in May 1985. There was talk of a run from dowtown out to Strongsville but nothing happened.

 

    

[54light15]

If I sing that jingle can I think of Annette Funicello?