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The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line. Its north end is at Seneca Yard in Buffalo, with no direct access to the Lake Erie district, and its south end is at the Pittsburgh Line at Rockville, Pennsylvania. ==History== The Sunbury and Erie Railroad opened from Williamsport, Pennsylvania south to Milton in 1854,〔, March 2005 Edition〕 Northumberland in 1855,〔, March 2005 Edition〕 and Sunbury in 1856.〔, March 2005 Edition〕 Extensions west from Williamsport opened to Whetham in 1859,〔, March 2005 Edition〕 Keating (as the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad) in 1862, reorganize in 1895 to Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway,〔, March 2005 Edition〕 and finally reaching Emporium (also as the P&E) in 1863.〔, March 2005 Edition〕 A cutoff bypassing downtown Williamsport to the south, from Allen's west to Nisbet, opened in the early 1870s,〔(PRR Corporate History, Development of Fixed Physical Property )〕 and is now part of the Buffalo Line. The Northern Central Railway opened a line from Dauphin, Pennsylvania north to Millersburg in 1856,〔, March 2005 Edition〕 extending it north to Herndon in 1857〔, March 2005 Edition〕 and Sunbury in 1858.〔, March 2005 Edition〕 In 1882, the Pennsylvania Railroad opened their Rockville Branch from Rockville (on their main line) north to Dauphin on the Northern Central.〔(PRR Corporate History, Development of Fixed Physical Property )〕 From the Buffalo end, the Buffalo and Washington Railway opened its line to East Aurora, New York in 1868〔, June 2004 Edition〕 and South Wales in 1870.〔, January 2005 Edition〕 In 1871 its name was changed to the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railway,〔, January 2005 Edition〕 and it was extended to Emporium, Pennsylvania in 1872, completing the line between Buffalo and Harrisburg.〔, February 2005 Edition〕 The newest piece of the Buffalo Line, opened in 1909, is at Buffalo, running from the old main line at Gardenville southwest to Seneca Yard.〔, March 2005 Edition〕 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. By 2008 Norfolk Southern no longer used the line and leased it to the Buffalo & Pittsburgh,〔(Norfolk Southern Harrisburg Region Timetable 1, August 4, 2008 )〕 who now use it to reach their Main Line in Machias, NY; this allowed the B&P to abandon and remove their old 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 Yard out of service, this left their Ebenezer Running Track from CSX's Buffalo Terminal Subdivision to Gardenville as the only connection between Buffalo and the line.〔(Norfolk Souther Harrisburg Region Track Charts, 2009 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buffalo Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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