Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad

Infobox SG rail
railroad_name = Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
logo_filename = Logo of WNYP.svg
logo_size = 150
system_

map_caption =
marks = WNYP
locale = Northwest Pennsylvania and Western New York
start_year = 2001
end_year = "present"
predecessor_line =
successor_line =
length = convert|186.5|mi|km|1|lk=on
hq_city = Falconer, NYThe Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad reporting mark|WNYP is a Class III, short-line railroad that operates in Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania.

History

Originally incorporated in 1887, WNYP was acquired in 1900 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, [cite news|title=Pennsylvania In Control; It Acquires the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad|date=27 May 1900|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=2008-01-27|format=PDF|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E6D9113BEE33A25754C2A9639C946197D6CF&oref=slogin] which, along with the Pennsylvania Company, operated the railroad through 1917. The United States Railroad Administration took control of the line in 1918.

The Northwest Pennsylvania Railroad Authority bought most of the tracks in Pennsylvania from Conrail in the early 1990s when Conrail stopped running trains on the former Erie Railroad between Meadville, Pennsylvania and Hornell, New York and announced plans to abandon the tracks between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania.cite news|last=Hahn|first=Tim|title=Railroad Revived|publisher=Erie Times-News|date=27 January 2008|pages=1B|accessdate=2008-01-27| url=http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS02/801270455/-1/NEWS02] The authority then sold the convert|41.5|mi|km|1 tracks to WNYP in 2002 for 1 dollar and the cancellation of its $1.9 million debt.

In August 2007, WNYP became the operator of a "roughly convert|110|mi|km|0|sing=on stretch of line between Driftwood, Pennsylvania and Machias, New York."

Operations

WNYP currently operates railroad equipment east and west on track it owns or leases between Hornell and Rouseville, Pennsylvania, and north from Olean, New York to Machias and south from Olean to Driftwood.

Since 2001, service on the line between Corry and Meadville "has grown from a few trains a week to several trains a day," according to the "Erie Times-News".

In December 2005, Norfolk Southern leased convert|45.3|mi|km|1|lk=on of track to WNYP allowing it to run coal between Rouseville and Meadville, Pennsylvania and then on to convert|186.5|mi|km|1 of tracks owned by WNYP toward Hornell. The trains head eastward to supply coal-fired power plants in New York and New England. [cite news|last=Gushard|first=Keith|publisher=The Meadville Tribune|title=Meadville will be a railroad town again: Railroad companies expanding operations through Meadville|date=2005-12-22|accessdate=2008-01-27| url=http://www.meadvilletribune.com/archivesearch/local_story_355224858.html]

ee also

* List of New York railroads
* List of Pennsylvania railroads
* New Castle Branch (Pennsylvania Railroad)

References

External links

* [http://www.wnyprr.com/ Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad]
* [http://rnetzlof.pennsyrr.com/corphist/WNY_P.html Corporate Genealogy (1929)]
* [http://wnyrails.org/railroads/prr/wnyp_home.htm WNY&P RR - Western New York Railroad Archive]
* [http://wnyrails.org/railroads/prr/prr_chaut.htm Penn RR Chautauqua Branch - Western New York Railroad Archive]