Program on trolley arriving in Lyons

Friday, August 18th, 1906, Trolley Car #114 clattered across the trestle and bridge, screeched around the sharp curve on Water Street and came to a stop in front of Congress Hall, the hotel.

The anniversary of the arrival of the trolley in Lyons will be celebrated this Friday, August 18, with a ceremony at the trolley abutment on the north side of the Erie Canal.

Beginning at 10 a.m., the program will include remarks by Shelden King, noted local expert on the R.S.& E., and others. Reproductions of photographs and postcards of the trolley era in Lyons will be on display. The public is cordially invited to attend.

At its height, the trolley connected Lyons to Rochester, and to Syracuse, as well as other towns in Wayne County and to towns in Cayuga, Onondaga and Monroe Counties. The powerhouse for the line was located in Lyons, just east of the Clyde River. The era of electric inter-urban railways ended here in June of 1931, when service was discontinued. The R.S.E. was already in receivership by this time, the victim of private automobile ownership and a depressed economy.

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