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Erie Railroad's 1834 rail line plan An 1855 map of the New York and Erie Railroad. The New York and Erie Rail Road was chartered on April 24, 1832, by New York governor Enos T. Throop to connect the Hudson River at Piermont, north of New York City, west to Lake Erie at Dunkirk.
The Erie and Central New York Railroad was first graded in 1870 and was abandoned and the bridges rotted. Reconstruction was started in 1895, [ 1 ] opened May 1, 1898, and sold to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1903. [ 2 ]
Map of the Water Level Routes of the New York Central Railroad (purple), West Shore Railroad (red) and Erie Canal (blue) A West Shore Railroad three-car train used third-rail electric power between Syracuse and Utica, N. Y., ca. 1911
The New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway was completed in 1884, as a route running closely parallel to both the canal and the New York Central Railroad. However, it went bankrupt and was acquired the next year by the New York Central. The canal continued to compete well with the railroads through 1902, when tolls were abolished. [citation ...
The line the Central New York Railroad (CNYK) originally operated on, which was a 21.7-mile (34.9 km) branch line between Richfield Junction near Cassville and Richfield Springs, New York, was first opened in November 1872, when it began serving as a branch for the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway. [2]
In or soon after 1852, the new Erie Street terminal was built in downtown Buffalo, along with a relocation of the tracks near downtown to the west side of the Erie Canal. In December 1853 the newly formed New York Central Railroad leased the Buffalo and Niagara Falls, [2] which at the time did not connect to any other NYC lines. It was merged ...
New York and Putnam Railroad (New York Central Railroad) Town of Edwards Nature Trail? St. Lawrence County: Gouverneur and Oswegatchie Railroad (New York Central Railroad) [18] Uncle Sam Bikeway: 3 miles (4.8 km) Troy: Boston and Maine Railroad: Vestal Rail Trail: 2.2 miles (3.5 km) Broome County: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.