The Erie Railway originally travelled between New York City and Buffalo, eventually expanding west. The railway propelled economic development throughout the state. Ship travel could only reach ...

SHERWIN, JAQUES, KILPATRICK and KICPATRICK, the Erierioters, this morning moved that they be discharged upon the payment of the costs which have accrued since the commencement of the Erie difficulty.

Hamburg, N.Y. (WBEN) - From Orlando to Western New York, the Strates Shows' carnival midway will be pulling their show by train once again to Hamburg's Historic Erie Depot for a special return of ...

The largest construction project ever undertaken in 19th-century Kent County would be the creation of the Erie & Huron Railway and the subsequent erection of the railway berm across the expansive ...

The idea is preposterous that the immense produce of the West could be transported from the great lakes to the seaboard without the aid of the enlarged Erie Canal, and further, no railroad can ...

American railroading began in the Capital District. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County native (Duanesburg) George Featherstonhaugh (pronounced fen-shaw) ran a newspaper notice announcing the ...

The two financiers had worked together in 1868, when they used stock fraud and bribery to keep Cornelius Vanderbilt from taking control of the Erie Railroad, which they owned. Now, they tried ...