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===19th century=== [[File:Black_Diamond_Express_1898.jpg|thumb|The Black Diamond Express competed head to head with famous named trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central, Delaware and Hudson and Erie Railroad for the Great Lakes and Chicago passenger revenues.]] [[File:Black_Diamond_Express_on_Lehigh_Valley_bridge_Athens,_Pa.JPG|thumb|The Black Diamond Express crossing the Susquehanna bridge in [[Athens, PA]], just a few miles to the south, and part of the greater town.]] [[File:Black_Diamond_Express_at_Sayre_Pa._pre_1907.JPG|thumb|The yard in Sayre and Waverly were main hubs; the full coal bunkers on this express shown stopped suggest the engine was just swapped for a new engine and crew, a faster operation than coaling and watering a tender. Named Express trains did not dawdle for any reason. Like the turn around today of an airliner, dining, beverages, cleaning and other hotel and maintenance services all took place as fast as was possible.]] In May 1870, a Waverly banker named Howard Elmer, along with Charles Anthony and James Fritcher, bought the Pine Plains area between Waverly and Athens. Elmer convinced [[Asa Packer]] to locate a new [[railroad]] repair facility on the Pine Plains for the expanding [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]], which was making a push north from [[Duryea yard|Duryea at the Lackawanna]] to connect to the [[Erie Railroad]] at Waverly to achieve a market share in the much coveted New York City-Great Lakes sweepstakes. Robert Heysham Sayre, president of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania and New York Railroad]], helped cement the deal. The town was named in his honor. Sayre was incorporated on January 27, 1891. The town would become famous for its extensive [[rail yard]] (still appreciably large today at half the peak size) and more famous for the railroad repair shops and steam locomotive repair and manufacturing shops situated in the town, which employed thousands.
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