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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. |
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Trains on CSX going North of Syracuse still run thru Fulton...From Syracuse thru Woodard Jct., to Phoenix, they are on former NYC/PC/Conrail.
At Fulton they use the original 1920s-vintage O&W Fulton Bypass on the East side of town, hence from there to Oswego. There are original NYC bits and
Ontario & Western pieces here and there.
Out-of-service is the line from Syracuse to Fulton on the west side of the Oswego River, which was once the Oswego & Syracuse RR (DL&W then ELRR). The portion north of Fulton was sold to the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (now National Grid Group). The ex-DL&W line is referred to as the Baldwinsville Secondary and ends just north the Birdseye plant. I believe the out-of-service track extends from there, through Minetto and Oswego to where Niagara-Mohawk received oil shipments which were pumped to its steam plant on Lake Ontario. That was on the ex-NYC Lake Ontario Shore Line to Rochester. A new track connected the ex-DL&W line with the ex-NYC line in the West Yard area of Oswego. Crossing the city from northeast to southwest, the New York Central captured the bulk of the non-coal business in Oswego. Created by merging several small roads begun in the early 1800's, the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad completed its route from Watertown through Oswego to Suspension Bridge in Niagara Falls in 1876. In 1891, the RW&O became part of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad. Today, trains no longer cross from the east side to the west side through the courthouse tunnel and the long bridge. Recently, the tunnel has become part of a walking trail through the city. Conrail, then CSX, use the old Lackawanna line to reach the west side of Oswego from Syracuse and the old O&W line to reach east side industries. |
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| Oswego area from Oswego Public Library |
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| Abandonments: Lake Ontario Shore Railroad | ||
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Oswego to Hannibal abandoned 1978, now hiking trail
Hannibal to Red Creek (Conrail) 1980 (OMID had been designated operator) Hannibal to Webster sold to Ontario Midland, Oct. 15, 1979 Webster to Windsor Beach abandoned 1978 Charlotte to Barker abandoned 1978 Barker to Suspension Bridge 1979 (Portion from Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls to “Riverview” north of Niagara University campus dismantled in the late 1960s by Penn-Central. Had not been used since construction of Niagara Power Project) Rochester to Windsor Beach abandoned 1978 Through passenger service, Oswego to Rochester and Suspension Bridge, discontinued Feb. 2, 1935 |
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| The NY Ontario & Western in Oswego |
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| Interesting Railway Stations |
| Bridges near Webster | ||
| 2 small wooden bridges on the former ROW embankment along Lake Road near the outlet bridge. One goes over a small path, while the other (further east) goes over a dirt driveway that leads from the road to a cluster of lakeside cottages. The latter bridge is near the intersection with Bay Road. | ||
| A much larger (steel?) bridge goes over Lake Road. | ||
| The former Hojack ROW between Vosburg Rd and the end of OMID is now a trail with several small bridges, as well. |
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| REFERENCE |
| Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad |
| Lake Ontario Shore Railroad |
| Railroad Forum on the Hojack Line |
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The Greater Rochester Railfan The Hojack Line |
| Once Railroads, Now Trails |
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Books on Local History By Shirley Cox Husted Town of Parma City of Rochester Monroe County |
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A BRIEF HISTORY of: the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad plus the Rotten - Wood & Old Rusty Rails - a story of the rail line through Webster by Dick Batzing - Webster Historian |
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Memories of the “Hojack”
Railroad Magazine, August, 1945, pp 104-105 |
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The Bertrande Snell Stories
Stories by "Bertrande" from the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post Standard |
| Map of the Syracuse Division of NY Central |
| Rochester Institute of Technology Model Railroad Club |
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1870 letter from Gerrit Smith to the directors of the Lake Ontario Shore
regarding difficulties in securing funding to complete the railroad.
From the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center |
| Timeline of railroad development in the Rochester area. |
| A great HOJACK WebSite Devoted entirely to the history of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. Our goal is to capture the RW&O through articles, photos and Forum discussions. We will also offer a glimpse of what remains of the RW&O today through photos of existing stations and structures. |
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Once upon a time, milk trains were important
New York Central Milk Business
Cremery in South Columbia, New York There were two basic types of milk trains – the very slow all-stops local that picked up milk cans from rural platforms and delivered them to a local creamery, and those that moved consolidated carloads from these creameries to big city bottling plants. Individual cars sometimes moved on lesser trains. These were dedicated trains of purpose-built cars carrying milk. Early on, all milk was shipped in cans, which lead to specialized "can cars" with larger side doors to facilitate loading and unloading (some roads just used baggage cars). In later years, bulk carriers with glass-lined tanks were used. Speed was the key to preventing spoilage, so milk cars were set up for high speed service, featuring the same types of trucks, brakes, communication & steam lines as found on passenger cars. |
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