Nypano Railroad
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Map of the Nypano Railroad
The Nypano Railroad, earlier the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, was organized from the bankrupt Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in March 1880.
The road was owned by five of the English investors in the A&GW and ran from
New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. On February 27, 1896 the property was sold under foreclosure to representatives of the Erie Railroad
, and subsequently reorganized as the Nypano. The company was merged into the Erie in 1941.
The NYP&O was originally built as a
standard gauge
.
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References
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- Hungerford, Edward. Men of Erie: A Story of Human Effort. New York: Random House, 1946.
- Mott, Edward. Between the Ocean and the Lakes - The Story of Erie. New York, NY: J.S. Collins. 1899.