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Lake Ontario Shore Railroad The Hojack Line |
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In the early 1870's, the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad had been built from Oswego
all the way along the shore of Lake Ontario to the Niagara River (Suspension Bridge).
It bypassed Rochester, had no manufacturing industries and was too close to the
New York Central.
The Lake Ontario Shore wasn't able to make the grade and was sold to the RW&O in 1875 at a court sale for a bargain basement price. By building a short connection at Oswego, the RW&O now had a through route from Suspension Bridge to Norwood where connections were available to the Atlantic Ocean. By an agreement of consolidation, dated October 22, 1874, between the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad Company and the Lake Ontario Railroad Company, which had been incorporated as the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company on March 27, 1868, road opened to Oswego in 1873, sold under foreclosure proceedings September 22, 1874, and reorganized September 29, 1874, as the Lake Ontario Railroad Company, the second company bearing the name of the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburgh Railroad Company was incorporated. This agreement was filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 14, 1875, under authority of chapter 917 of the laws of 1869, passed May 20, 1869, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. |
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Timetable: West Yard (Oswego) to CP85 (Suspension Bridge) The Lake Ontario Shore as of 1965 as art of the Syracuse Division of the New York Central |
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| Station | Mile Marker | Remarks |
| West Yard | 25.0 | Oswego Railroads |
| Furniss | 28.8 |
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| Hannibal | 34.3 |
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| Crocketts | 36.8 |
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| Red Creek | 44.8 | Comstock Canning Co. |
| Wolcott | 50.6 |
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| North Rose | 55.2 |
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| Alton | 60.3 |
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| Wallington | 62.3 |
Pennsylvania Railroad went North here to coal dock on Lake Ontario (See FOOTNOTE A) |
| Sodus | 65.2 | Local history |
| Williamson | 71.4 |
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| Ontario | 76.3 |
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| Fruitland | 79.1 |
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| Union Hill | 80.9 | Duffy Mott Co. |
| Webster | 83.8 |
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| Windsor Beach | 93.4 | 7.2 mile branch to Rochester, State Street |
| Charlotte | 94.2 |
6.9 mile line to Jay Street Junction Rochester trolley to Charlotte |
| Greece | 100.5 |
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| Hilton | 103.7 |
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| Collamer | 104.8 |
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| Walker | 107.2 |
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| Hamlin | 110.1 |
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| Morton | 114.3 |
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| Kendall | 116.5 | Kendall History |
| Brice | 121.5 |
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| Carlton | 124.2 | Carlton's History |
| Waterport | 127.1 |
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| Ashwood | 130.3 |
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| Lyndonville | 134.2 | Village of Lyndonville history |
| Millers | 138.2 |
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| Barker | 142.6 |
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| Appleton | 147.5 |
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| Burt | 150.7 |
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| Wilson | 156.6 |
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| Elberta | 159.8 |
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| Ransomville | 162.3 |
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| Model City | 168.0 |
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| C.P. 85 | 175.3 | Connection with New York Central Railroad |
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Footnote A: The NYC Hojack was the east west line and the Pennsy Elmira to Sodus Point was the North South line. PRR crossed the Hojack at grade - 90 degree crossing. Today, what is left is operated by a short line, OMID (Ontario Midland RR). Track north from Wallington to Sodus Point and the old coal dock was removed some time ago. |
| End of the Hojack in Photo | ||
| A great collection from the 1970's near Rochester on the Hojack | ||
| Oswego area from Oswego Public Library |
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