Bath
and Hammondsport Railroad - (en)
The Bath and Hammondsport Railroad was chartered in 1872 as a narrow gauge
railroad running from the Erie and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad interchange in Bath, New York, to Hammondsport, New York.
In 1872, the B&H was converted to standard gauge. It later fell under
the control of the Erie, which held on to the line until 1937.
With Passenger service ending in 1917, when Steamer service on Keuka Lake
was discontinued. The B&H owned 11 standard gauge Steam Locomotives,
with the last being #11. #11 was built by Alco at it's Cooke Works in
Paterson, NJ for a sugar railway in Cuba, but the order was never
fulfilled. It was sold to the Narragansett Pier Railroad, before being
sold to the Bath & Hammondsport. The B&H sold #11 to Rail City
Railroad Museum's Sandy Pond & Lake Ontario, after Rail City closed
was sold back to the Narragansett Pier Railroad, to be used in an
excursion service, which never occurred. It is now awaiting restoration on
the Middletown & New Jersey (M&NJ) in Middletown, NY.
In 1976 Conrail, sold the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western line from
Bath to Wayland to the Steuben County Industrial Development Agency (SCIDA).
In 2001, under ownership of the Livona, Avon & Lakeville (LAL), the
B&H leased the Painted Post-Bath line from Norfolk Southern (NS).
