Somerset Railroad (New York) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Somerset Railroad (reporting mark SOM) is a shortline railroad that operates in Niagara County, New York. The railroad was built with the primary objective of providing coal to the Kintigh Generating Station, a 675 megawatt coal-fired power plant located in Somerset, New York. The railroad was built in 1983 by the New Your State Electric and Gas Co. using new, old, borrowed, and blue rights of way. From Lockport, New York it runs on the defunct International Railway Co. (IRC) interurban (intercity trolley) line opened in 1900 under the name Buffalo, Lockport & Olcott Beach (BL&OB) which became part of the IRC in 1902. From Newfane, New York the SOM sweeps off the IRC (abandoned in 1937) to the Hojack Line in Appleton, New York (Township of Newfane, Niagara County, NY) to West Somerset in the Town of Somerset. It then swings off on new trackage to a series of spurs and a loop at the Kintigh Generating Station.