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The Erie Limited, which traveled between New York City and Chicago A rail line system map, c. 1884. The Erie still did not see profits, and was sold in 1878 via bankruptcy reorganization to become the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. On June 22, 1880, the railroad’s standard-gauge conversion process was completed. [12]
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 ]
After the New York Central took over the West Shore this was useless, as the New York Central had a parallel line, the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad. [citation needed] The West Shore also had relations with the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway (BHT&W), which would have run from the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts west to Buffalo.
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]
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 BL&R ran for 54 miles (87 km) from a connection with the International Railway Co. in Lockport to a connection with the Rochester Railways at Lyell Avenue. The route closely followed the Erie Canal and New York Central's Falls Road for most of its length. [2] [page needed]
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.
New York and Harlem Railroad (New York Central Railroad) High Line: 1.4 miles (2.3 km) Gansevoort Street to 34th Street Manhattan: New York Central Railroad: Hojack Trail Cayuga? Cayuga County: Lake Ontario Shore Railroad (the Hojack Line) Hojack Trail Hamlin: 14 miles (23 km) Wiler Road to East Kent Road Monroe County