Penn Central Transportation Company records, 1796-1986 1835-1974

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Penn Central Transportation Company records, 1796-1986, 1835-1974

Title

Penn Central Transportation Company records, 1796-1986 1835-1974

Resource Link

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2372

Abstract

Collection consists of records relating to the operations mainly in New York State of the New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Collection contains records, 1796-1969, of the New York Central (Buffalo East Lines) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (New York Zone) (chiefly files of the subsidiary Long Island Railroad which was absorbed in 1900).

Extent

250; 393 boxes

Holding Repository

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6312517

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New-York and Albany Rail Road Company

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Fulton and Oswego Railroad Company.

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American Niagara Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

New York and Ottawa Railroad Company.

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Long Island Electric Railway Company.

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Madison Avenue and 86th Steet Railway Company.

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Long Beach Marine Railway Company.

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Gouverneur and Edwards Railroad.

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Owasco River Railway Company.

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Northern Refrigerator Car Company.

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Oswego and Rome Railroad Company.

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New York and Rockaway Beach Railway Company.

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New York and North Shore Railway Company.

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Glen Cove Railroad Company.

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Long Island Consolidated Electrical Railway Companies.

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St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway Company

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Watertown and Rome Railroad Company.

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Yonkers Rapid Transit Railway Company.

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ConRail

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The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

Stuyvesant Real Estate Company.

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Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway Company.

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Long Island Parlor Car and Sleeping Coach Company.

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Whitestone and Westchester Railroad Company.

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New York and Bull's Ferry Railroad Company.

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Syracuse Northern Railroad Company.

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Montauk Water Company.

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Oyster Bay Extension Company.

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company.

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Rochester and Syracuse Railroad Company

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Nassau County Railway Company.

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Carthage, Watertown and Sackets Harbor Railroad Company.

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Jersey City and Bayonne Railroad Company.

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Carthage and Adirondack Railroad Company.

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Gouverneur and Oswegatchie Railroad Company.

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Corning, Cowanesque and Antrium Railway Company.

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Ontario Pacific Railway Company.

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New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb6kvj (corporateBody)

Glendale and East River Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x7p38 (corporateBody)

Syracuse, Chenango and New York Railroad Company.

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Merchants Despatch and Improvement Company.

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Madison Avenue and 23rd Street Railway Company.

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Ottawa and New York Railroad Company.

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New York Central Railroad Company

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and stora...

New York and New Jersey Underground Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf66d3 (corporateBody)

Interstate Terminal Construction Company.

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Jersey City and Albany Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cg81rc (corporateBody)

Utica and Black River Railroad

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Tonawanda Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx9qbc (corporateBody)

Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad Company.

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Buffalo and Erie Basin Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr4c38 (corporateBody)

Central Railroad of Long Island.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh10vp (corporateBody)

Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad Company.

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Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad Company

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New York and Manhattan Beach Railway Company.

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Windsor Beach and Ontario Railroad Company.

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Buffalo and Niagara Falls Railroad.

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West Side and Yonkers Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f84pr8 (corporateBody)

Syracuse, Phoenix and Oswego Railway Company.

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Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua Company.

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West Shore Railroad Group.

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North River Railway Company.

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Albany Pier Proprietors.

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Rutland and Noyan Railway Company.

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New York and Flushing Railroad Company.

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Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railway Company.

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Ocean Electric Railway Company.

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Manhattan Beach Extension Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md79m0 (corporateBody)

National Stock Yard Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c49q6 (corporateBody)

Huntington Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n7g1h (corporateBody)

Syracuse, Ontario and New York Railway Company.

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Norwood and Montreal Railroad Company.

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Terminal Railway of Buffalo.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb7h4k (corporateBody)

Montauk Steamboat Company, Limited.

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Weehawken Ferry Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp5f63 (corporateBody)

New York Central Railroad System.

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New Jersey Junction Railroad Company.

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West Shore and International Bridge Railroad Company.

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Yonkers Rapid Transit Company.

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Ogdensburg Terminal Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq6d5t (corporateBody)

Roslyn and Huntington Railroad Company.

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Ogdensburg and Morristown Railroad Company.

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Niagara Falls Branch Railroad Company.

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Oswego Railroad Bridge Company.

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Canada Southern Railway Company

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Chicago and Great Southern Refrigerator Car Company.

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Syracuse and Utica Direct Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company.

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Northern New York Railroad Company.

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Niagara Junction Railway Company.

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West Shore Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b61bst (corporateBody)

Tonawanda Island Bridge Company.

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Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation

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Long Island City and Manhattan Beach Railroad Company.

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Syracuse Junction Railroad Company.

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New York, Westchester and Putnam Railroad Company.

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Dolgeville and Salisbury Railway Company.

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Albany and Schenectady Railroad Company

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Metropolitan Ferry Company.

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Little Falls & Dolgeville Railroad

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This company was organized in 1891, and was acquired by the New York Central Road Company in 1906. From the description of Time book and pay roll, 1903-1908. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 122537194 ...

New York Connecting Railroad Company

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Oswego and Troy Railroad Company.

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New-York and Harlem Rail Road Company

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Mahopac Falls Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w6qd4 (corporateBody)

Hudson River Railroad

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New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway Company.

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Geneva and Lyons Railroad Company.

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Cornwall Bridge Company.

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Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company

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Grand Central Terminal Building Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n66xvf (corporateBody)

Mohawk Valley Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x14jhd (corporateBody)

New Jersey Shore Line Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n7g8n (corporateBody)

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k9812j (corporateBody)

Born 1 Feb. 1885 in Johnstown, Pa. Moved with family to Buffalo shortly after the Johnstown flood of 1889. When his parents died, he became the ward of his brother-in-law, C. George Hyde, who apprenticed him to the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad in 1902. From the description of Apprenticeship papers of John P. Loewer, 1902 May 5. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 44271315 Railroad company formed from a consolidation of the New York Central Railroad ...

Weehawken Transportation Company.

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Jamaica and South Shore Railroad Company.

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Park Avenue Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k72vhb (corporateBody)

Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w8s04 (corporateBody)

Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn3mcj (corporateBody)

Rutland Transit Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d01nv0 (corporateBody)

Atlantic Avenue Elevated Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv10qw (corporateBody)

Lewiston Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj6zn5 (corporateBody)

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York Railroad Co.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bx0kxc (corporateBody)

Long Island City and Flushing Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r00n5r (corporateBody)

New York and Northern Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mx0td1 (corporateBody)

Rutland Transportation Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz1s18 (corporateBody)

Junction Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m0w0k (corporateBody)

Westchester and Long Island Tunnel Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hr29dx (corporateBody)

Genesee Falls Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn3md0 (corporateBody)

West Jamaica Land Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dk3rw9 (corporateBody)

North Shore Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v495xj (corporateBody)

New York and Long Beach Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b2fw7 (corporateBody)

New York and Putnam Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc6c6v (corporateBody)

New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz1s35 (corporateBody)

Buffalo, Thousand Island and Portland Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp1kzh (corporateBody)

Open Cut and General Storehouse Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md79bd (corporateBody)

Syracuse and Northern Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tv326j (corporateBody)

Rochester and Ontario Belt Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p99nc (corporateBody)

Western Realty and Terminal Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn9j81 (corporateBody)

New York, New Jersey and Eastern Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw7vjv (corporateBody)

Schenectady and Troy Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65n4hb4 (corporateBody)

Harlem Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gs024q (corporateBody)

Lewiston Suspension Bridge Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63p0fkn (corporateBody)

Southern Railroad of Long Island Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cw2tx0 (corporateBody)

Fort Pond Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66r07np (corporateBody)

Montauk Extension Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s83t17 (corporateBody)

Pine Creek Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m0mdv (corporateBody)

North River Construction Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v77vzj (corporateBody)

Walkill Valley Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62k4p77 (corporateBody)

Troy Union Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r94k1 (corporateBody)

Rochester and Lake Beach Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zq2j3g (corporateBody)

Linden Securities Corporation.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v7v0c (corporateBody)

Fall Brook Railway Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x438cz (corporateBody)

New York City and Northern Railroad Company.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j5t4h (corporateBody)

Hoboken and Hudson Turnpike Company.

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New York and Mahopac Railroad Company.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

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The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...