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Chautauqua valley villages. Most interurban lines were abandoned during the 1930s due to increased car ownership and improving highways as well as the financial impact of the Great Depression. The JW&NW's passenger survival to 1947 and its freight survival to 1950 was due to its freight transfer with the New York Central for the many Jamestown factories.
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Dubbed the "Chautauqua Lake Route", the single track 32-mile (51 km) electrified JW&NW railroad provided passenger service and freight shipments between the furniture manufacturing city of
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