Dunkirk, NY to Titusville, PA

The Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad

Picture Point of Interest

This picture was taken at North Warren, PA, in October 2008, where the former station is now a submarine sandwich shop. Photo by Mike Palmer, October 2008.

This was the former Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad line between Dunkirk, NY and Titusville, PA. It extended 90 miles from the NYC mainline at Dunkirk, NY south-southwest to Titusville, PA. It served small farm towns in upstate New York and reached into the oil field region of northwestern Pennsylvania. An extensive history of this line is available at the link below.

A portion of the right-of-way can still be easily seen where it parallels US Route 62 between Akeley and Warren in northern Pennsylvania.

Thanks to Mike Palmer for contributing information about this route.

The Oil Creek and Titusville operates over a portion of this line from a connection with the former PRR Chautauqua Branch to a point several hundred feet east of the PA Route 27 crossing. The OC&T calls it the Fieldmore Springs Branch where they serve several industries. I can't confirm the date but I believe the line was abandoned in 1968, around the time of the PC merger.

Ron Mele
Pinson, AL
7/7/2011

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In 1967 I walked the track from Titusville to Dunkirk, using side-track maps from the track dept revealing private switches,turn-outs,car capacities,house tracks,private sidings etc. I walked the total area of industry and, with the local agent, a Mr Chuck Tulledge, drove between cities. I went through Titusville,Fieldmore Springs,Irvington,some others in PA and then to Frewsberg and up to Falconer Jct befor quitting accounting time constraints, the next week picking up the rest by myself. I went to Gerry,Sinclairville,Fredonia(Mile post 3 I remember) and know that I forgot some cities, altough I have the original side track schetchs from the job. At the time it was a viable branch and the EL gave us unit coal trains at Falconer Jct for delivery at NMP Dunkirk, but one derailed and riped up much of the rail and ties and the NYC would not replace same. john

John E Bond
Amherst, NY
7/8/2011

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I belong to the Lake Shore Chapter NRHS North East PA-A gentleman brought in a yard sign from Frewsburg. There evidently was a siding or small yard of some sort on Pearl St. in Frewsburg. Do you have a book out on the DAVP? Regards, Al Johnson

Al Johnson
Jamestown, NY
1/23/2012

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