List of New York Central Railroad precursors explained

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

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".

Beech Creek Extension Railroad

Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad (original)

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.

Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad (original)

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (original)

Michigan Central Railroad

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (original)

Beech Creek Railroad

Boston and Albany Railroad

Buffalo and Lockport Railway

Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad

Buffalo and Rochester Railroad

Cape Vincent Railway

Construction was completed to Cape Vincent in April 1852. The railroad from limerick to Cape Vincent was abandoned84 years later, and all rails were removed in the summer of 1967.

Carthage and Adirondack Railway

Hudson River Railroad

Mohawk and Malone Railway

New Jersey Junction Railroad (leased 7–1–1886)

New York and Harlem Railroad (leased 4–1–1873)

New York and Putnam Railroad

New York Central Railroad

Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Railroad

Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad

West Shore Railroad (leased 12-5-1885)

Toledo and Ohio Central Railway

Ulster and Delaware Railroad (merged 1932)

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Notes and References

  1. Kudish, Michael, Where Did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks?, Volume Two, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2007. .

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