Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad

The Greigsville and Pearl Creek Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of New York. Despite its name, it only existed in the immediate vicinity of Greigsville, a small community in the town of York, and did not reach Pearl Creek, a hamlet in Covington.

The company was organized October 1, 1897 and chartered January 26, 1898,^[1] to build from the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's main line at North Greigsville (present-day Greigsville^[2]) west to the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway at Pearl Creek. Three miles (5 km) were constructed from the DL&W to the Greigsville Salt Mine, but the mine closed in June 1899, and operations were suspended.^[3]

The actual location of Greigsville Salt Mine is not clear. Mindat puts the mine on a residential street (Virginia Avenue),^[4] but the USGS Topographic map puts the mine at the end of an unnamed road to the northwest.^[5] The railroad would have extended past the mine by at least the length of one train, in order to be able to load the entire train from one point.^{[original research?]}