EASTERN RAIL-ROAD THREE TRAINS A DAY EXCEPT SUNDAYS ... WM. WALLACE, BUFFALO, JULY, 1848. SUPT. ATTICA & BUFFALO RAIL ROAD. [Buffalo]: Steam Press of Seaver, Foy & Day, Courier Office, 1848. Broadside, 20.2x12.6 cm (8 x 5 inches), printed in black ink on brown paper stock. The Attica and Buffalo Railroad, completed in 1843, connected Buffalo -- through Syracuse, Utica, and Schenectady -- to Albany. "One of the noted [Buffalo] railway pioneers was William Wallace. Prior to the time of his death, in 1887, Wallace had something to do with seven out of the nine different railroads built ... he was at different times a promoter, engineer, superintendent [and] surveyor ... of the ... railroads in which he was interested. His last project was a railroad, running from Buffalo to Washington, which later became a branch of the present Pennsylvania Railroad" (Robert Holder, The Beginnings of Buffalo Industry). Four old horizontal mailing fold, a nearly fine copy. (#178965).
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