The following railroads currently or formerly operated in the U.S. state of New York.
Common freight carriers
Private carriers
Passenger carriers
Commuter rail
Rapid transit
Heritage railroad
Defunct railroads
Street and electric railways
- Adirondack Lakes' Traction Company
- Albany and Hudson Railroad
- Albany and Hudson Railway and Power Company
- Albany Southern Railroad
- Amsterdam Street Railroad
- Atlantic Avenue Railroad
- Auburn and Northern Electric Railroad
- Auburn and Syracuse Electric Railroad
- Babylon Railroad
- Ballston Terminal Railroad
- Batavia Traction Company
- Belt Line Railway
- Bennington and North Adams Street Railway
- Berkshire Street Railway
- Binghamton Railway
- Black River Traction Company
- Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
- Bridge Operating Company
- Broadway Railroad
- Broadway Railway
- Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad
- Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
- Bronx Traction Company
- Brooklyn Central Railroad
- Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad
- Brooklyn City Railroad
- Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad
- Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad
- Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
- Brooklyn Elevated Railway
- Brooklyn Elevated Silent Safety Railway
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad
- Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway
- BrooklynâÂÂManhattan Transit Corporation
- Brooklyn and North River Railroad
- Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
- Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
- Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad
- Buffalo City Railway
- Buffalo and Depew Railway
- Buffalo and Erie Railway
- Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company
- Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway
- Buffalo Southern Railway
- Buffalo and Williamsville Electric Railway
- Bush Terminal Railroad
- Bushwick Railroad
- Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad
- Canarsie Railroad
- Catskill Electric Railway
- Cayadutta Electric Railroad
- Cedarhurst Railway
- Central City Rail Way
- Central Crosstown Railroad
- Central Park, North and East River Railroad
- Chautauqua Traction Company
- Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
- City Island Railroad
- Cohoes Railway
- Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
- Coney Island Elevated Railway
- Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad
- Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
- Corning and Painted Post Street Railway
- Cortland County Traction Company
- Crosstown Street Railway of Buffalo
- DeKalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad
- DeKalb Avenue and North Brooklyn Railroad
- Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
- East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad
- Eastern New York Railroad
- Echo Line Railroad
- Eighth Avenue Railroad
- Electric City Railway
- Elmira, Corning and Waverly Railway
- Elmira and Seneca Lake Traction Company
- Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company
- Empire State Railroad
- Far Rockaway Railroad
- Fishkill Electric Railway
- Flushing and College Point Electric Railway
- Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad
- Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
- Fort George Extension Railway
- Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
- Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway
- Freeport Railroad
- Fulton Street Railroad
- Geneva, Seneca Falls and Auburn Railroad
- Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake Traction Company
- Gilbert Elevated Railway
- Glen Cove Railroad
- Gloversville Street Electric Railroad
- Grand Street and Newtown Railroad
- Great South Bay Ferry Company
- Greenbush and Nassau Electric Railway
- Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad
- Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad
- Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham Railway
- Hornell Traction Company
- Hornellsville and Canisteo Railway
- Hornellsville Electric Railway
- Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
- Hudson Light and Power and Railroad Company
- Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
- Hudson River and Eastern Traction Company
- Hudson Street Railway
- Hudson Tunnel Railway
- Hudson Valley Railway
- Huntington Railroad
- Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company
- International Railway
- Ithaca Street Railway
- Ithaca Traction Corporation
- Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad
- Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company
- Jamaica Central Railways
- Jamestown Street Railway
- Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad
- Jerome Park Railway
- Johnstown, Gloversville and Kingsboro Horse Railroad
- Kaydeross Railroad
- Keeseville, Ausable Chasm and Lake Champlain Railroad
- Kings County Electric Railway
- Kings County Elevated Railway
- Kingsbridge Railway
- Kingston Consolidated Railroad
- Long Beach Marine Railway
- Long Island City and Newtown Railroad
- Long Island Electric Railway
- Long Island Traction Company
- Manhattan Railway Company
- Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
- Manhattan and Queens Traction Company
- Manhattan and Queens Traction Corporation
- Marine Railway
- Melrose and West Morrisania Railroad
- Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
- Metropolitan Elevated Railway
- Metropolitan Street Railway
- Mid-Crosstown Railway
- Mineola, Hempstead and Freeport Traction Company
- Mineola, Roslyn and Port Washington Traction Company
- Mount Beacon-on-Hudson Association
- Mount Vernon and Eastchester Railway
- Nassau Railroad
- Nassau County Railway
- Nassau Electric Railroad
- New Paltz, Highland and Poughkeepsie Traction Company
- New Rochelle Railway and Transit Company
- New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad
- New York Railways
- New York, Auburn and Lansing Railroad
- New York City Railway
- New York City Interborough Railway
- New York and Coney Island Railroad
- New York Consolidated Railroad
- New York Elevated Railroad
- New York, Fordham and Bronx Railway
- New York and Harlem Railroad
- New York and Jersey Railroad
- New York and Long Island Traction Company
- New York Municipal Railway
- New York and North Shore Railway
- New York and North Shore Traction Company
- New York and Queens County Railway
- New York and Stamford Railway
- New York State Railways
- New York, Westchester and Connecticut Traction Company
- Newark and Marion Railway
- Newtown Railway
- Niagara Gorge Railroad
- Ninth Avenue Railroad
- North and East River Railway
- North End Street Railway
- North Third Avenue and Fleetwood Park Railroad
- Northport Traction Company
- Ocean Electric Railway
- Ogdensburg Street Railway
- One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street Crosstown Railroad
- Oneida Railway
- Oneonta and Mohawk Valley Railroad
- Orange County Traction Company
- Park Avenue Railroad
- Paul Smith's Electric Light and Power and Railroad Company
- Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company
- Pelham Park Railroad
- Pelham Park and City Island Railway
- Penn Yan, Keuka Park and Branchport Railway
- Penn Yan and Lake Shore Railway
- Plattsburgh Traction Company
- Port Jervis Electric Light, Power, Gas and Railroad Company
- Port Jervis Traction Company
- Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers Falls Electric Railway
- Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls Railway
- Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad
- Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad
- Putnam and Westchester Traction Company
- Queens Railway
- Queensboro Bridge Railway Company
- Richmond County Railroad
- Richmond Light and Railroad Company
- Richmond Street Railway
- Rochester Railway Company
- Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway
- Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad
- Rochester and Manitou Railroad
- Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway
- Rochester and Suburban Railway
- Rochester Subway (RSB)
- Rochester and Syracuse Railroad
- Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railroad
- Rockaway Village Railroad
- St. Lawrence International Electric Railroad and Land Company
- Schenectady Railway
- Sea Beach Railway
- Sea View Railroad
- Seashore Municipal Railroad
- Second Avenue Railroad
- Sixth Avenue Railroad
- Soundview Transportation Company
- South Brooklyn Street Railroad
- South Ferry Railroad
- South Shore Traction Company
- Southern Boulevard Railroad
- Southern New York Railway
- Southern New York Power and Railway Corporation
- Southfield Beach Railroad
- Staten Island Electric Railroad
- Staten Island Horse Railroad
- Staten Island Midland Railroad
- Staten Island Midland Railway
- Staten Island Traction Company
- Suburban Rapid Transit Company
- Suburban Traction Company
- Suffolk Traction Company
- Syracuse, Lake Shore and Northern Railroad
- Syracuse Northern Electric Railway
- Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway
- Syracuse and South Bay Electric Railroad
- Syracuse and Suburban Railroad
- Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway
- Third Avenue Railroad
- Third Avenue Railway
- Third Avenue Bridge Company
- Thirty-fourth Street Railroad
- Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway
- Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
- Troy and New England Railway
- Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth Streets Crosstown Railroad
- Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
- Twenty-third Street Railway
- Union Railroad
- Union Railway of New York City
- United Railroad
- United Traction Company
- Utica Belt Line Street Railroad
- Utica and Mohawk Valley Railway
- Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
- Van Nest, West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
- Wakefield and Westchester Traction Company
- Wallkill Transit Company
- Warren and Jamestown Street Railway
- Washington Street and State Asylum Railroad
- Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Company
- West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
- West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway
- Westchester Electric Railroad
- Westchester Street Railroad
- Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
- Williamsbridge and Westchester Traction Company
- Yonkers Railroad
Other passenger carriers
Private carriers
Not completed
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