From the Henry Breed's
Pioneer History of Quaker Basin
© DeRuyter, NY, 1931, Page 7

   I think it proper to give you a short history of the railroad which once ran on the north side of our beautiful valley, known at the time as the Auburn Branch of the New York and  Oswego Midland Railroad. In the year 1869, on Tuesday, 15th of June, a celebration was held at the summit of Crumb Hill, on Benjamin Crumb's farm, and ground broken for the commencement of that great thoroughfare. Lambert B. Kern delivered an oration which as fitting to the occasion. I cannot say that the railroad that I am speaking of, was of any benefit to the inhabitants of this vicinity, or the town of DeRuyter.

   Very much of our forests, which was valuable timber was going into the trestle works, which had to be built in order to get over Crumb Hill. The bed of the old road will be visited to the rising generations if they ever travel on it on it, they will see at once that the cost must have been great in constructing it and the generations yet to come may possibly have a hand in it yet, in helping pay the debt which was saddled onto the inhabitants of the town to aid in its construction. This railroad did business not far from 10 years.