It laid a short segment of line in 1890 in Titusville, Pennsylvania which was leased to a subsidiary of the New York Central to be used as a siding to a tannery.
[1] Adalbert H. Steele was elected president of the company; James T. Blair was secretary and Charles Day, treasurer.
Steele was also president of the Pithole Valley Railway, while John A. Dale, S. L. M. Barlow and Day were directors of both companies.
[2] Tidioute is on the Allegheny River upstream of Oleopolis: the proposed railroad would have run west through Titusville and northwest to the harbor at Erie to provide another outlet for Pennsylvania oil.
The Pithole Valley was to be extended a short distance north of Pleasantville to reach the Pennsylvania Petroleum's main line at a point designated Colorado Junction.
Directors were James T. Blair, Frank Dunning, Henry C. Bloss, Samuel Minor, Francis H. Gibbs, and J. H.
The new line ran west from the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad station in Titusville to the newly opened Queen City tannery of Lucius Beebe & Sons.
[19][20] On July 1, 1891, it was leased to the DAV&P for use as a siding to serve the tannery; the company's own reports notwithstanding, it was only 0.386 miles (0.621 km) long.
This line was projected to extend not only from Erie to Tidioute, but to run further east to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, a distance of 150 miles (240 km).
[15] The New York Central abandoned the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh and ceased operating over the Titusville and Cambridge in 1966.