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.
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. 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
- Cairo and Vincennes Railroad
- 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, Jackson and Mackinaw Railway
- Cincinnati, Van Wert and Michigan Railroad
- Celina, Van Wert and State Line
- Columbus and Northwestern Railway
- Michigan and Ohio Railroad
- Allegan and Southeastern Railroad
- Cincinnati, Hamilton, Middletown and Toledo
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway
- Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad
- Cincinnati, Dayton and Eastern Railroad
- Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway
- Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railroad
- Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway
- Bellefontaine Railway
- Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad
- Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad
- Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati 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
- Mount Gilead Short Line Railroad
- Peoria and Eastern Railway
- Indianapolis Union Railway
- Indianapolis Belt Railroad and Stock Yards
- Indianapolis Belt Railroad
- Union Railroad Transfer and Stock Yards
- Indianapolis Belt 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)
Michigan Central Railroad
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (original)
Beech Creek Railroad
Boston and Albany 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
New Jersey Junction Railroad (leased 7âÂÂ1âÂÂ1886)
New York and Harlem Railroad (leased 4âÂÂ1âÂÂ1873)
New York and Putnam Railroad
New York Central 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)
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
Ulster and Delaware Railroad (merged 1932)
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