Collection 1831-1987

New York and New Haven Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6895t5g (corporateBody)

New-York and Harlem Rail Road Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r8cw8 (corporateBody)

Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm31m1 (corporateBody)

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tx79zh (corporateBody)

The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Long Island Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff8f16 (corporateBody)

Hudson River Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw74s0 (corporateBody)

Metro-North Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b03sfd (corporateBody)

Metro-North Railroad is a suburban commuter railroad that is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and provides service in seven New York State counties, New York City, and two counties in the state of Connecticut. It is the second largest commuter railroad in the United States. Metro-North operates along a segment of the railroad lines and stations that were originally owned and operated by the predecessor railroad companies documented in this collection. From the de...

Penn Central Transportation Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ck243v (corporateBody)

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...

New York Central Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t493j (corporateBody)

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...

Pennsylvania Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d3k0m (corporateBody)

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...

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...