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Railroads -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Cayuga Lake Railroad petition and report

 Collection — Manuscript box 16 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065242657]
Identifier: 3741
Scope and content

A petition to the New York State Legislature for incorporation of a company to construct a railroad from the Village of Ithaca to the Head of Cayuga Lake, ca.1840; and a report, "The Proposed Cayuga Lake Railroad, to connect Ithaca with the New York Central by way of Ludlowville, Aurora and Union Springs," April 25, 1867.

Dates: [1840?]; 1867.

Railroad miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4396
Scope and content

Tintype of Utica, Ithaca, and Elmira Railroad. Photographs of the Dundee railroad station, ca. 1900; the Geneva railroad station, 1906; the Canandaigua wharf, 1891; steroscopic photograph, Engine 77 at Cayuga, N.Y., ca. 1877; and photograph, Empire State Express and DeWitt Clinton. Also, "The Auburn Branch of the New York and Oswego Midland Railroad, 'Butter and Cheese Express,'" 1990 revision (63 p.) by Richard Palmer.

Dates: 1871-1906, 1990.

Walter J. Mueller letter : to the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society

 Collection — Manuscript box 58 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252912]
Identifier: 3400m
Scope and content

Typewritten letter in response to two publications by the Central New York Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society on railroads of central New York. Mueller reminisces about riding the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Lackawanna Railroad, and watching the Lehigh Valley night train from Buffalo to New York as it came down West Hill to stop at the Ithaca station.

Dates: 1974 January 19.