Susquehanna and New York Railroad

[2] The railroad carried freight and passengers between Williamsport and Towanda by rail rather than using the Susquehanna River or the Pennsylvania Canal.

The story of the S&NY starts in 1794 when Robert Barclay of London, England came to own 21,000 acres (85 km²) in the region.

[3] Professor Johnson or Richard Taylor (or possibly both) surveyed the land for a railroad about 1835, but no road was cut and access to the coal was still limited.

[5] In 1856 the Pennsylvania Canal (North Branch Division) was built, improving access into the area and leading to renewed interest.

[6] The newspaper also reported that the train could pull 25 five ton cars at a time and make three trips per day between the coal mines and the canal boats.

[12] "Bigger rail" was laid, steel bridges replaced wooden ones, and a terminal was built at West Williamsport.

[14] The boom town of Laquin with 20,000 acres (80 km²) of timber, contained 2,000 people and a payroll second only to Sayre,[14] which had the Lehigh Valley Shops to maintain trains and broad bottom land making travel easier.

[14] The S&NY also had regular "Sunday School picnics and wildflower excursions" that required extra cars to carry the passengers.

By this time the primary resources of the Barclay Mountain region – coal and timber – were either mined out or not needed, possibly due to other cheaper sources.

[10][18] The rails between Monroeton and Ralston were taken up shortly afterward to run tracks throughout a large munitions plant at White Deer (near Williamsport).

[10] North to south:[19][20] Marsh Hill Junction – connected to Pennsylvania Railroad leading south to West Williamsport[2] From Marsh Hill Junction, the S&NY had trackage rights for 20 miles into West Williamsport for connections to the Reading and New York Central railroads.

(a) Uncertain about this number (b) Dickson later merged with American The Story of the Susquehanna and New York lists officers and employees as of August 1941[24] shortly before the railroad was dismantled to support the war (WWII) effort.