Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad

Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad
Reporting marks	BPRR
Locale	Northern Pennsylvania
Dates of operation	1988–present
Track gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Rochester, New York

The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (AAR reporting marks BPRR) is a class III railroad operating in New York and Pennsylvania.

The BPRR is owned by Genesee and Wyoming Industries and runs between Buffalo, New York and Eidenau, Pennsylvania (north of Pittsburgh). It runs largely on former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) lines. The entire BPRR system is 411 miles.

Major commodities carried include paper, petroleum products, chemicals, coal, steel, and sand.

[edit] Main line

The Buffalo-Eidenau main line passes through Salamanca, NY, Bradford, PA, Johnsonburg, PA, DuBois, PA, Punxsutawney, PA and maintains a rail yard and locomotive maintenance facility in Butler, PA.

BPRR operates a secondary line over part of the former B&O Northern Subdivision which runs to Petrolia, PA.

There are branches to Erie, PA, Driftwood, PA, and Indiana, PA. The BPRR also leases CSX Transportation tracks between Eidenau and a junction near New Castle, PA. There is also a small branch that runs from Harmony Junction in Eidenau to Bakerstown, Pennsylvania along the P&W Subdivision. At Bakerstown Hill, there is a small interchange with the Allegheny Valley Railroad.

In the early 2000s, the BPRR merged other GWI railroads into it. These lines include the Allegheny and Eastern Railroad (ALY), Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad (PSR), and the Bradford Industrial Railroad (BR).

In 2006, the railroad was honored as the Regional Railroad of the Year by industry trade journal Railway Age magazine.^[1]