Is There Passanger Railroad Service From Buffalo New York To Pittsburg Pa

Buffalo Line
The Buffalo Line north of Rockville, Pennsylvania, with an erstwhile Pennsylvania Railroad signal bridge that has since been removed
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Norfolk Southern Railway
Locale	New York and Pennsylvania
Termini	Buffalo, New York Rockville, Pennsylvania
Service
Type	Freight runway
System	Norfolk Southern Railway
Operator(s)	Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (Buffalo-Machias, New York) Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (Machias-Driftwood, Pennsylvania) Norfolk Southern Railway (Driftwood-Rockville)
History
Opened	1854
Technical
Number of tracks	1-2
Track judge	4 ft8+ 1⁄2 in (i,435 mm) standard gauge

The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Rockville, Pennsylvania nearly Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a sometime Pennsylvania Railroad line. Its north cease is at Seneca Yard in Buffalo, with no directly access to the Lake Erie district, and its south end is at the Pittsburgh Line at Rockville. The line is operated by the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad between Buffalo and Machias, New York, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad between Machias and Driftwood, Pennsylvania, and the Norfolk Southern Railway between Driftwood and Rockville.

History [edit]

The Sunbury and Erie Railroad opened from Williamsport, Pennsylvania due south to Milton in 1854,^[1] Northumberland in 1855,^[2] and Sunbury in 1856.^[3] Extensions w from Williamsport opened to Whetham in 1859,^[iv] Keating (as the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad) in 1862, reorganize in 1895 to Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway,^[5] and finally reaching Emporium (also as the P&Due east) in 1863.^[6] A cutoff bypassing downtown Williamsport to the south, from Allen's west to Nisbet, opened in the early on 1870s,^[7] and is at present office of the Buffalo Line.

The Northern Fundamental Railway opened a line from Dauphin, Pennsylvania north to Millersburg in 1856,^[3] extending it north to Herndon in 1857^[8] and Sunbury in 1858.^[9] In 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened their Rockville Branch from Rockville (on their chief line) north to Dauphin on the Northern Central.^[7]

From the Buffalo end, the Buffalo and Washington Railway opened its line to East Aurora, New York in 1868^[10] and Southward Wales in 1870.^[11] In 1871 its proper name was changed to the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway,^[12] and it was extended to Emporium, Pennsylvania in 1872, completing the line between Buffalo and Harrisburg.^[13] The newest piece of the Buffalo Line, opened in 1909, is at Buffalo, running from the former main line at Gardenville southwest to Seneca M.^[14]

The line became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Conrail through leases, mergers, and takeovers. In the 1999 breakup of Conrail it was assigned to Norfolk Southern. The Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad has leased and been operating the part of the line between Machias, New York and Driftwood, Pennsylvania since 2007. By 2008, Norfolk Southern no longer used the line into Buffalo and leased it to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh,^[15] which now uses it to achieve its Main Line in Machias, NY; this allowed the B&P to abandon and remove its one-time Third Subdivision (ex B&O) line between Orchard Park, NY and Ashford Jct. By 2009, NS had taken the portion from Gardenville Junction to Seneca Grand out of service; this left its Ebenezer Running Track from CSX's Buffalo Last Subdivision to Gardenville as the only connexion betwixt Buffalo and the line.^[16]

In 2009, the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad portion of the Buffalo Line was used to film scenes in the picture show Unstoppable. Filming took place over 3 months during the daylight hours while the railroad ran its regular services at nighttime.^[17]

Named passenger trains [edit]

The Buffalo Solar day Express stands ready to depart Williamsport, PA on July 20, 1969. Passenger service along the line would finish shortly afterward.

When passenger trains ran on the line Lock Haven (west of Williamsport) was a transfer point for trains to Pennsylvania State University: 38 miles to the southwest of Lock Oasis. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran several trains on this run betwixt Buffalo and Washington, with major intermediate stops existence Emporium, Williamsport, Harrisburg, York and Baltimore. The last rider train on the line was the Penn Fundamental's unnamed Buffalo-Harrisburg successor to the Buffalo 24-hour interval Express. Service ended on April 30, 1971 when Amtrak declined to pick upward the route.^[18]

Buffalo 24-hour interval Limited (Washington and Philadelphia -- Buffalo train) / Baltimore Day Express (southbound railroad train)
Dominion Limited (overnight railroad train of the above route)

References [edit]

^ "PRR Chronology, 1854" (PDF). (79.1 KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1855" (PDF). (47.0 KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ ^a ^b "PRR Chronology, 1856" (PDF). (52.4 KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1859" (PDF). (60.9 KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1862" (PDF). , March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1863" (PDF). , March 2005 Edition
^ ^a ^b PRR Corporate History, Development of Fixed Concrete Belongings Archived 2007-12-29 at archive.today
^ "PRR Chronology, 1857" (PDF). (54.one KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1858" (PDF). (56.eight KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1868" (PDF). (93.8 KiB), June 2004 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1870" (PDF). (57.0 KiB), January 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1871" (PDF). (72.9 KiB), January 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1872" (PDF). (86.one KiB), Feb 2005 Edition
^ "PRR Chronology, 1909" (PDF). (56.8 KiB), March 2005 Edition
^ Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Region Timetable i, August four, 2008
^ Norfolk Souther Harrisburg Region Track Charts, 2009
^ Zimmermann, Karl (2012). "Where Alcos Tough Information technology Out". Trains. Kalmbach Publishing. 72 (half dozen): 44.
^ Trains magazine, 'Rider trains operating on the eve of Amtrak' https://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf