From the Chenango Union of Norwich, NY
Sunday, July 17, 1870

   On Saturday evening last, the first locomotive crossed North Main Street, with a construction train the trestle-work being completed, and track laid from the junction to a short distance west of the crossing. A large number of our citizens assembled to witness the advent of the iron horse upon the Auburn Branch; and as it steamed over the long trestle-work, commencing in the old Fair Ground, and came screaming high above Silver Street, and across the canal, striking terra firma near the crossing of the street, it was a novel sight.

   Work is progressing rapidly between this place and DeRuyter. It is understood that the towns of Cuyler and Truxton,  in Cortland County, are bonded for the road.