We Need Your Help to Move this Project Forward This might be our best (and last) chance to see the Amherst section of the Peanut Line become an accessible and safe multi-use trail. Whether you live in Amherst or elsewhere, if you are in favor of improved infrastructure for bicyclists, runners, walkers and rollers, connecting …
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The Town of Amherst is hosting a public open house information session on the multi-use bike path project. What: ‘Peanut Line’ Information SessionDate: Tuesday, February 17, 2026Time: 6:00 – 8:00pmPlace: Amherst Senior Center, Card Room370 John James Audubon PkwyAmherst, NY 14228 Please send all comments to planningemail@amherst.ny.us
GoBike Buffalo has launched a Feasibility Study for the Peanut Line trail, named as a priority corridor in “Bike Buffalo Niagara, the Regional Bike Master Plan (2020).” The Study will “identify technical requirements of building a trail, address community concerns, especially related to environmental and privacy considerations, summarize community input around trail amenities and design, …
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Please join us on June 9, 2024 for our 19th group bike ride along the Amherst section of the Peanut Line. Now in our seventh year of advocacy, our group of Amherst residents and neighbors from adjacent towns have been raising awareness of the importance of completing the conversion of the former Canandaigua-Niagara Falls Railway …
Many thanks to the nearly 50 riders who showed up for Peanut Roll XIV, including about a dozen first-timers, and to The Rock Kitchen and Bar for hosting our afterparty. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect fall day to celebrate our advocacy to #finishthetrail. Since 2018 we have organized these group rides to …
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Peanut Rolls are fun, slow-rolling group trail rides designed to show public support for the completion of the Amherst Peanut Line Trailway. Meetup at 1pm ride leaves at 1:30 from The Rock Kitchen and Bar. We’ll be riding roughly 5.5 miles of predominantly graded, grassy trail along the right-of-way of the former Canandaigua-Niagara Falls Railway …
Read more “Peanut Roll XIII Community Action Ride, July 31, 2022”
Amherst “Peanut Line” Google Earth Flyover, from the Ellicott Creek Trailway to Transit Road.
The Train Gallery at the Buffalo History Museum features an HO Scale model of the Cutler House, a still-standing mid-1800 structure on Campbell Boulevard which served as a post office, store, residence and boarding house for travelers of the New York Central Peanut Line.
1880 Erie County Atlas showing Transit Business Directory where the N.Y.C.R.R. “peanut line” crossed from Amherst into Clarence at the Transit Depot. Images provided by David Wolgast The line ran through my GG Grandfather Christian Wehrung’s land at the northeast corner of Sweet Home Road. My Grandmother said that as kids they would walk along …