Oswego Palladium Times, Nov. 28, 1934
Would Abandon 10-Hour Trains
Central Proposes to End West End Passenger Service
If plans of the New York Central Railroad Company are approved by the Public Service Commission, there will be no passenger service, after January 1, between Oswego and Syracuse on the R., W. & O.
The Public Service Commission will hold a hearing in the Monroe County courthouse December 10 at 10 o’clock, on passenger service between Oswego and Rochester, and between Suspension Bridge and Rochester, on the understanding it is the desire of Central operating officials to halt all passenger service between the points involved in the hearing.
Trains 24 and 29 operate daily between Rochester and Oswego, one daily each way, and Trains 52 and 53 between Suspension Bridge and Rochester, one train daily each way. These trains are mixed passenger and freight, mostly freight, with one passenger car on the end of each train. They make all stops and sometimes remain a considerable time at stations while freight is being loaded and unloaded, or while shifts are being made. As a result the operating time between Oswego and Rochester is about 10 hours, and about the same between Suspension Bridge and Rochester. There has been little or no passenger business, the company reports,and in the interests of economy it is desired to cease all passenger service.
This will leave the section, west of Oswego, without public service for passenger transportation. There are no bus lines operating on a through schedule, and mail is carried by automobile along the route by government contract.