Western New York & Pennsylvania

Oil City Branchline

Completing Western New York & Pennsylvania’s 330-mile network is the 45-mile, mostly ex-Erie Oil City branch, connecting with the Oil Creek & Titusville Lines at Rouseville, Pa. WNY&P leases the Oil City branch, as well as the rest of its system, from Norfolk Southern, except for the 42 miles between Corry and Meadville, which the short line owns outright.

Karl Zimmermann - TRAINS - 2012

Just south of the Meadville yard (railroad west), the original Erie mainline continues west toward Youngstown, Ohio, but a 45-mile branchline turns to the southeast to Utica, Franklin, and Oil City, Pennsylvania. This line was built by the Erie as a branchline into the oil-rich region. The Western New York & Pennsylvania serves this line a day or two a week with a single-locomotive local job for the few shipping industries that remain in Oil City, as well as interchange traffic for shortline Oil Creek & Titusville Lines. The OCTL interchanges with the WNYP just above Oil City at Rouseville, Pa.