List of New York Central Railroad precursors

The New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) was formed on December 22, 1914, as a consolidation of the companies listed below. It later merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central.

The NYCRR owned stock in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, but sold it in July 1917 and April 1922, respectively.

Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad edit

Also known as the Mohawk and Malone Railway, the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad was built by Dr. William Seward Webb. The line crossed the northern Adirondacks at Tupper Lake Junction, just north of Tupper Lake. Webb began by purchasing the narrow gauge Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railroad, which ran 16 miles from Herkimer to Poland. He then had track built from Tupper Lake to Moira and thence to Montreal. This was variously called the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad and the Mohawk and Malone Railway.^[1] It opened in 1892 from Malone Junction to Childwold Station with a branch from Lake Clear Junction to Saranac Lake. After 1893, it was controlled by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, and in 1913, it merged with the Central as the "Adirondack Division".

Air Line Railway of Michigan edit

Allegheny and Western Railway edit

Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad edit

Aurora and Cincinnati edit

Bailey Run, Sugar Creek and Athens Railway edit

Beech Creek Extension Railroad edit

Bowman's Creek Railroad edit

Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad (original) edit

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway edit

Cleveland Short Line Railway (merged 1915) edit

Cleveland Union Terminals Company edit

Cornwall Bridge Company (merged 1917) edit

Detroit and Chicago Railroad (original) edit

Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad (original) edit

Chartered in 1855, the Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad (DM&T) ran from Detroit, Michigan, south-southwest along the shore of Lake Erie to Monroe, Michigan. It crossed the state line into Ohio, where it ran into Toledo, Ohio. The line was completed on December 25, 1856. The DM&T leased itself in perpetuity to the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad (MS&NI) on July 1, 1856. The MS&NI merged with the Lake Shore Railway in 1869 to form the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (LS&MS). The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad achieved a controlling interest in the LS&MS in 1877, and the two companies merged in 1914 to form the New York Central Railroad. The DM&T's assets were merged into the NYC on January 1, 1915.

Dolgeville and Salisbury Railway (merged 1917) edit

Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad (original) edit

Elkhart and Western Railroad (merged 1915) edit

Fulton Chain Railway (merged 1916) edit

Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad (original) edit

Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad (merged 1915) edit

Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad (original) edit

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (original) edit

Michigan Central Railroad edit

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (original) edit

Beech Creek Railroad edit

Boston and Albany Railroad edit

Buffalo and Lockport Railway edit

Buffalo, Kenmore and Tonawanda Electric Railroad

Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad edit

Buffalo and Black Rock Railroad

Buffalo and Rochester Railroad edit

Buffalo Erie Basin Railroad edit

Cape Vincent Railway edit

Construction was completed to Cape Vincent in April 1852. The railroad from limerick to Cape Vincent was abandoned 84 years later, and all rails were removed in the summer of 1967.

Carbon and Otter Creek Valley Railroad edit

Carthage and Adirondack Railway edit

Black River and St. Lawrence Railway

Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Harbor Railroad edit

Geneva and Lyons Railroad edit

Hudson River Railroad edit

Junction Railroad edit

Mahopac Falls Railroad edit

Mohawk and Malone Railway edit

New York Central Railroad edit

New York Central Niagara River Railroad edit

Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Railroad edit

Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad

Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad edit

Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad

Syracuse Junction Railroad edit

West Shore Railroad (leased 12-5-1885) edit

Athens Branch
Buffalo Lehigh
New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway (changed name 12–5–1885)
- North River Railroad
  - Jersey City and Albany Railway
    - Jersey City and Albany Railroad
  - North River Railway
Syracuse, Ontario and New York Railway (absorbed 6–30–1891)
West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company (absorbed 7–9–1901)

Northern Central Michigan Railroad (original) edit

Racquette Lake Railway (merged 1916) edit

Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway (merged 1915) edit

Swan Creek Railway of Toledo (original) edit

Terminal Railway of Buffalo (original) edit

Toledo and Ohio Central Railway edit

Ulster and Delaware Railroad (merged 1932) edit

Rondout and Oswego Railroad
New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad
- Hobart Branch Railroad (absorbed 1884)
- Delaware and Otsego Railroad (absorbed 1887)
- Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad (absorbed 1892)
- Kaaterskill Railroad (absorbed 1892)

References edit

^ Kudish, Michael, Where Did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks?, Volume Two, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1-930098-81-7.

External links edit

[1] Kudish, Michael, Where Did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks?, Volume Two, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1-930098-81-7.

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