The railroad was incorporated on April 11, 1853, to run from Jersey Shore, in Lycoming County, to the New York state line, up Pine Creek through Tioga, Potter and McKean Counties, or turning at Gaines from Pine Creek up Long Run to reach the state line.
Gamble, a resident of Jersey Shore and state Canal Commissioner.
[1] Despite this legislative activity, little work took place, and the company was quiescent for several years.
[6] The charter was amended on April 14, 1864 to permit the construction of the branch to Tioga via Marsh Creek (the "third fork of Pine Creek") and Crooked Creek once the main line had been located as far as Manchester, on the third fork, and also allowed it to construct branches to the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad from Jersey Shore, or to any other railroad in Clinton or Lycoming Counties.
[6] A local history states that the "name was merged into the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway" in 1870,[6] but that railroad possessed a separate charter, and no corporate merger ever seems to have taken place.