Western New York & Pennsylvania mothballs 70 miles of track By Trains Staff | March 8, 2024 Sagerstown, Pa.-Jamesville, N.Y. route generated just three carloads in 2023, railroad president says MEADVILLE, Pa. — The Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad is discontinuing operation on about 70 miles of railroad between Saegertown, Pa., and Jamestown, N.Y., the Meadville (Pa) Tribune reports. Company president Bob Babcock told the newspaper that the railroad generated just three carloads of traffic over that segment last year. A “handful” of employees based in Meadville will lose their jobs, Babcock said, but customers in Meadville and Saegertown will still have service; a segment of the railroad from Meadville to Oil City, Pa., continues to operate. The route is a portion of the former Erie R...