List of New York Central Railroad precursors
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates The New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) was formed on December 22, 1914, as a consolidation of the companies listed below. It later merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central.
The NYCRR owned stock in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, but sold it in July 1917 and April 1922, respectively.
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Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad
Also known as the Mohawk and Malone Railway, the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad was built by Dr. William Seward Webb. The line crossed the northern Adirondacks at Tupper Lake Junction, just north of Tupper Lake. Webb began by purchasing the narrow gauge Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railroad, which ran 16 miles from Herkimer to Poland. He then had track built from Tupper Lake to Moira and thence to Montreal. This was variously called the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad and the Mohawk and Malone Railway.<ref>Kudish, Michael, Where Did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks?, Volume Two, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2007. Template:ISBN.</ref> It opened in 1892 from Malone Junction to Childwold Station with a branch from Lake Clear Junction to Saranac Lake. After 1893, it was controlled by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, and in 1913, it merged with the Central as the "Adirondack Division".
Air Line Railway of Michigan
Allegheny and Western Railway
Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad
Aurora and Cincinnati
Bailey Run, Sugar Creek and Athens Railway
Beech Creek Extension Railroad
Bowman's Creek Railroad
Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad (original)
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
- Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway
- Central Railroad of Indianapolis
- Central Union Depot and Railway Company of Cincinnati
- Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis Short Line Railway
- Cincinnati and Michigan Railroad
- Cincinnati and Southern Ohio River Railway
- Cincinnati and Springfield Railway
- Cincinnati Northern Railroad
- Cincinnati, Hamilton, Middletown and Toledo
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway
- Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad
- Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway
- Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway
- Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway
- Columbus, Hope and Greensburg Railroad
- Columbus, Indianapolis and Western
- Columbus, Springfield and Cincinnati Railroad
- Mount Gilead Short Line Railway
- Peoria and Eastern Railway
Cleveland Short Line Railway (merged 1915)
Cleveland Union Terminals Company
Cornwall Bridge Company (merged 1917)
Detroit and Chicago Railroad (original)
Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad (original)
Chartered in 1855, the Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad (DM&T) ran from Detroit, Michigan, south-southwest along the shore of Lake Erie to Monroe, Michigan. It crossed the state line into Ohio, where it ran into Toledo, Ohio. The line was completed on December 25, 1856. The DM&T leased itself in perpetuity to the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad (MS&NI) on July 1, 1856. The MS&NI merged with the Lake Shore Railway in 1869 to form the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (LS&MS). The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad achieved a controlling interest in the LS&MS in 1877, and the two companies merged in 1914 to form the New York Central Railroad. The DM&T's assets were merged into the NYC on January 1, 1915.
Dolgeville and Salisbury Railway (merged 1917)
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad (original)
Elkhart and Western Railroad (merged 1915)
Fulton Chain Railway (merged 1916)
Geneva, Corning and Southern Railroad (original)
Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad (merged 1915)
Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad (original)
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (original)
- Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad
- Buffalo and Erie Railroad
- Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad
- Battle Creek and Sturgis Railway
- Cleveland and Toledo Railroad
- Cleveland Short Line Railway
- Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad
- Lake Shore Railway
Michigan Central Railroad
- Bay City and Battle Creek Railway
- Buchanan and St. Joseph River Railroad
- Canada Junction
- Canada Southern Railway
- Central Railroad of Michigan
- Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway
- Detroit River Tunnel Company
- Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad
- Kalamazoo and South Haven Railroad
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (original)
Beech Creek Railroad
Boston and Albany Railroad
- Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad
- Boston and Worcester Railroad
- Chester and Becket Railroad
- Grand Junction Railroad and Depot Company
- Hudson and Boston Railroad
- North Brookfield Railroad
- Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad
- Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad
- Spencer Railroad
- Springfield and North-eastern Railroad
- Ware River Railroad
- Western Railroad
Buffalo and Lockport Railway
Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad
Buffalo and Rochester Railroad
Buffalo Erie Basin Railroad
Cape Vincent Railway
Construction was completed to Cape Vincent in April 1852. The railroad from limerick to Cape Vincent was abandoned 84 years later, and all rails were removed in the summer of 1967.
Carbon and Otter Creek Valley Railroad
Carthage and Adirondack Railway
Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Harbor Railroad
Hudson River Railroad
Junction Railroad
Mahopac Falls Railroad
Mohawk and Malone Railway
- Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railway
- Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railway
- Herkimer, Newport and Poland Extension Railway
- Herkimer, Newport and Poland Narrow Gauge Railway
New Jersey Junction Railroad (leased 7–1–1886)
- Jersey City and Bayonne Railroad (stock)
- New Jersey Shore Line Railroad (stock, absorbed 10–24–1914)
- New York and Fort Lee Railroad (leased, absorbed into NYC&HR 1886)
- State Line and Stony Point Railroad (stock)
New York and Harlem Railroad (leased 4–1–1873)
- Fourth Avenue Street Railway (bought 1–31–1920)
- New York and Mahopac Railroad
- Port Morris Branch (c. 1842)
New York and Putnam Railroad
New York Central Railroad
- Albany and Schenectady Railroad
- Cairo and Lake Huron
- Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad
- Catskill Railroad
- Columbus Northwestern Railway
- Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad
- Ulster and Delaware Railroad
- Utica and Schenectady Railroad
New York Central Niagara River Railroad
Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Railroad
Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad
Syracuse Junction Railroad
West Shore Railroad (leased 12-5-1885)
- Athens Branch
- Buffalo Lehigh
- New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway (changed name 12–5–1885)
- Syracuse, Ontario and New York Railway (absorbed 6–30–1891)
- West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company (absorbed 7–9–1901)
Northern Central Michigan Railroad (original)
Racquette Lake Railway (merged 1916)
Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway (merged 1915)
Swan Creek Railway of Toledo (original)
Terminal Railway of Buffalo (original)
Toledo and Ohio Central Railway
- Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad
- Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad
- Ohio Central Railroad
- Zanesville and Western Railroad
Ulster and Delaware Railroad (merged 1932)
- Rondout and Oswego Railroad
- New York, Kingston and Syracuse Railroad
- Hobart Branch Railroad (absorbed 1884)
- Delaware and Otsego Railroad (absorbed 1887)
- Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad (absorbed 1892)
- Kaaterskill Railroad (absorbed 1892)