Stephen Koenig and Ron Dukarm 100 pages softcover
In 1868, the Buffalo Creek Railroad was incorporated as the first
terminal railroad in the United States. Designed to tap into the growing
grain milling business and Lake Erie commercial traffic, this five-mile
railroad, concentrated entirely in Buffalo, New York, became the
busiest terminal railroad of its size by the early 20th century. Even
though the railroad’s service became synonymous with Buffalo’s grain
milling and flour industry, it also served a significant amount of the
chemical and oil business in the area. While its operations were locally
confined, the Buffalo Creek was widely known in the railroading
community by its vast fleet of 40-foot boxcars, used to transport
Buffalo’s grain products to locations as far away as Mexico City and
Vancouver. This book covers the railroad’s inception through the end of
its steam era and into the early diesel era.
