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The Montauk Cutoff is an abandoned railway in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, that connected the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line and Lower Montauk Branch. Helicopter view of Long Island City. The overgrown Montauk Cutoff is visible at the bottom left. Cabin M bridge
Pages in category "Defunct New York (state) railroads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 520 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Albany Port Railroad (APD) (Port of Albany); Arcade and Attica Railroad (ARA); B&H Rail Corporation (BH) (Owned by Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad); Berkshire and Eastern Railroad (B&E) operated by Genesee & Wyoming on tracks owned by Pan Am Southern (PAS) after CSX and Norfolk Southern acquired it in 2022.
But several other cases involving New York railroads have led to large settlements. Lewis Rice recently resolved a claim by property owners who live beside a 30-mile railroad corridor in Orchard ...
The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between Columbia Street and Boerum Place. [2]
The New York, Westchester & Putnam Railway was formed on July 3, 1877, as a reorganization, and was leased to the New York City & Northern Railroad (NYC&N), formed on March 1, 1878. Between East View and Pocantico Hills , the NYC&N built a segment leading to a perilous 80-foot-high trestle over a marsh-filled valley. [ 3 ]
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. [11]
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its predecessors—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND)—were ...