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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.
Syracuse, Binghamton and New York, Engine 5, date unknown. The Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad ran from Geddes to Binghamton for a total distance of 81 miles (130 km). The company was chartered as the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad Company on August 18, 1851, to bring coal from Pennsylvania so it could be used as fuel for Syracuse, New York's salt industry. [3]
Syracuse station was the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's railroad station in Syracuse, New York.It was housed in different buildings in succession. It hosted trains going north to Oswego, New York on the Lake Ontario coast by way of the DLW's acquisition, the former Oswego and Syracuse Railroad; and it also hosted trains going south to Binghamton on the route of the former Syracuse and ...
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 was known as the "great central depot on the Underground Railroad" prior to the Civil War, due to the work of Jermain Wesley Loguen and others in defying federal law, . On October 1, 1851, William Henry, a freed slave known as "Jerry", was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law .
On October 1, 1885, the company consolidated without a change of name with the Penn Yan and New York Railroad Company, which was leased to the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company in 1899. [2] In 1909, the company merged with Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad and once again in 1914, into New York Central Railroad (NYCRR).
The New York and Oswego Midland Railroad is reorganized out of bankruptcy as the New York, Ontario and Western Railway [31] 1881 Each new extension of the railroad is another company: Paterson Extension Railroad, Midland Connecting Railway, New York and Scranton Construction Company in New Jersey, Pennsylvania Midland Railway in Pennsylvania ...
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]