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CHAUTAUQUA STAR
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2014
national train day in Jamestown
Contributed Article
Ken Springirth
National Train Day
will be commemorated in Jamestown on
Saturday, May 10 at
the historic Jamestown
Gateway Train Station (the former Erie
Lackawanna passenger
station) 211-217 West
Second Street from 10
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Rolling stock of the
Western New York &
Pennsylvania Railroad
will be on display along
with various exhibits
and a toy train sale.
Regional rail author
Ken Springirth, who has
spent the last 50 years
researching rail systems
and has completed 22
rail books, will have
a book signing on his
latest book “Jamestown
to Buffalo by Trolley,”
which is dedicated to
Lee Harkness, General
Manager of the Jamestown Gateway Train
Station along with many
agencies and individuals involved with saving
the former Erie Lackawanna train station
and Bob Johnston,
retired Traffic Engineering Supervisor - City of
Jamestown whose vision
saved Jamestown Street
Railway car No. 93
which was delivered to
the train station. That
trolley car was donated
in memory of Harriet
obituaries
Lucille M. Carlson - Ashville
April 17
Dale A. Buel - Gowanda
April 20
Mary G. Bastian
April 21
and Mauro Lucariello
from their hunting camp
in 1996.
National Train Day
marks several important dates in local rail
history. First, i ӊéѡ