Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The West Shore Railroad opened a route to New York City in 1848. A "rate war" led to the demise of the road, which was leased to the New York Central Railroad. [1] West Shore secured its franchise in Syracuse in 1881, and was opened on October 1, 1883 [4] The Syracuse & Utica Railroad made its first arrival in 1889.
The station on a 1951 postcard Bas Relief.. The passenger station, the third of ultimately four stations built by the New York Central Railroad to serve Syracuse, was built in 1936, when the railroad tracks that previously went through the city of Syracuse via Washington Street, at grade with pedestrians and automobiles, were elevated above city streets.
Syracuse is a city in Central New York sited on the former lands of the Onondaga Nation. Officially incorporated as a village in 1825, it has been at a major crossroads over the last two centuries, first of the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then on the railway network. The city grew on the back of its salt and chemical industries, and later ...
The Syracuse and Onondaga Railway, a horse-drawn city railway, was chartered on April 29, 1863, and opened on July 25, 1864, [1] in Syracuse, New York. [2] The line commenced in Downtown Syracuse at Washington Street and terminated at Oakwood Cemetery at Brighton Avenue where it connected with the Onondaga Valley Railroad. [3]
Former Syracuse station from platform, November 1994. When the financially desperate New York Central Railroad sold off its elevated right-of-way through downtown Syracuse to the State of New York in 1962, all rail service was re-routed onto a former freight bypass to the north of the city center.
The Central City Railway was chartered on April 19, 1859, and was the first street railway company in Syracuse, New York. It began operations in August 1860, as a horse-drawn rail. [ 1 ] The road was discussed for many years before it was actually constructed as a link between the First Ward and Erie Canal at Salina Street. [ 2 ]
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: New York City and Northern Railroad: NYC: 1878 1887 New York and Northern Railway: New York and Coney Island Railroad: 1879 South Brooklyn Railway: Electrified in 1899 New York Connecting Railroad: NYCN NH/ PRR: 1892 1976 Consolidated Rail Corporation: New York Cross Harbor Railroad Terminal Corporation ...
The Syracuse and Onondaga Railroad was chartered in Syracuse, New York, on May 13, 1836, and [1] was granted approval by the State to build a road from Syracuse to local quarries in Split Rock, New York. [2] The road was incorporated on the same day as the Syracuse Stone Railroad which was organized for the same purpose. Both roads were ...