Railroad Companies   

of New York State

  ~ Past and Present ~

*Incorporation date shown where known.

Adirondack Scenic Railroad - Thendara, NY (Tourist RR) 

Albany & Schenectady Railroad

Albany & West Stockbridge Railroad 

Allegany Central Railroad  
Amtrak 
Arcade & Attica Railroad 
Atlantic & Great Western Railroad 

Auburn & Rochester Railroad, May 13, 1836
Auburn & Syracuse Railroad
Bath & Hammondsport Railroad 
Batten Kill Railroad 

Beech Creek Clearfield & Southwestern Railroad, March 20, 1883
Beech Creek Extension Railroad
Beech Creek Railroad 

Black River & Utica Railroad, January 31, 1853
Blossburg & Corning Railroad
Boston & Albany Railroad, September 4, 1867
Bradford Railroad 

Buffalo & Black Rock Railroad

Buffalo & Erie Railway Company 

Buffalo Erie Basin Railroad, July 8, 1876

Buffalo & Jamestown Railroad 

Buffalo & Lockport Railroad, April 29, 1852

Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railroad, May 3, 1834

Buffalo & Oil Creek Cross Cut Railroad 

Buffalo & Rochester Railroad

Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad 

Buffalo & State Line Railroad Company 

Buffalo & Susquehanna 

Buffalo Southern Railroad, Inc. - Another site 

Buffalo, Arcade & Attica

Buffalo, Cleveland & Chicago Railway Co. of New York
Buffalo, Corry & Pittsburgh Railroad 

Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia Railway
Buffalo, Niagara & Lake Erie Railroad 
Buffalo, Pittsburgh & Western 
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh 

Canadian Pacific

Canandaigua & Niagara Falls Railroad, May 18, 1851
Canoe Creek Railroad, May 22, 1900

Carthage & Adirondack Railway, March 28, 1883
Carthage Watertown & Sackets Harbor Railroad, February 5, 1869
Catskill Mountain Railroad - Shokan, NY (Tourist RR) 
Central New York and Western Railroad 

Clearfield Southern Railroad, July 6, 1898 

Columbus & Erie Railroad 

Corning & Blossburg Railroad
Corning Cowanesque & Antrim Railway
Curwensville & Bower Railroad, March 31, 1903
Dansville & Mt. Morris 

Delaware & Hudson Railway Company 

Delaware, Erie, Genesee & Washington  
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western

Dolgeville & Salisbury Railway  
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad, December 31, 1872
Dunkirk, Warren & Pittsburgh Railroad 

Erie and New York City Railroad 

Erie and Northeast Railroad Company 

Erie Lackwanna Railway Internet Resources 
     Walt Fles's Erie Lackawanna Home Page 
     Don Shorock's Erie-Lackawanna Index Page 
Erie Railroad, predecessors and associated companies  
Fall Brook Railway, July 1, 1892
Finger Lakes Railway 
Franklin & Warren Railroad 
Friendship Railroad 

Fulton & Oswego Railroad, December 18, 1885 
Genesee & Wyoming

Genesee Valley Canal Railroad  
Geneva & Lyons Railroad, October 5, 1877

Geneva Corning & Southern Railroad, organized February 4, 1909
Gouverneur & Oswegatchie Railroad, April 12, 1892
Grand Junction & Depot Railroad
Harlem Railroad, April 25, 1831
Herkimer Newport & Poland Extension Railway
Herkimer Newport & Poland Narrow Gauge Railway
Hudson & Berkshire Railroad

Hudson & Boston Railroad 
Hudson River Railroad, May 12, 1846

Jersey City & Albany Railroad Company of the States of New York and New Jersey
Jersey City & Albany Railroad, June 24, 1873

Jersey Shore Pine Creek & Buffalo Railway, February 17, 1870
Junction Railroad April 20, 1870
Kendall & Eldred Railroad 
Kinderhook & Hudson Railroad

Kinzua Railroad 
Lackawanna and Pittsburgh Railroad  
Lackawanna and Southwestern Railroad

Lake Ontario Shore Railroad, March 27, 1868
Lehigh Valley Railroad 
     Official Lehigh Valley Railroad Railfan Page 
Lewiston Railroad, May 6, 1836

Little Falls & Dolgevlle Railroad, December 27, 1902
Long Island Rail Road 

Loyalhanna & Youghiogheny Railroad

Mahopac Falls Railroad, organized March 8, 1884
Malone & St. Lawrence Railroad

McKean & Buffalo Railroad 

Meadville Railroad 
Metro North Commuter Railroad  
Middletown & New Jersey Railway 

Mohawk & Adirondack Railroad

Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road 
Mohawk & Malone Railway, June 23, 1892

Mohawk Valley & Northern Railway
Mohawk Valley Railroad, December 29, 1852
New Jersey Midland Railway

New York & Erie Railroad 

New York & Fort Lee Railroad

New York & Harlem Railroad
New York & Mahopac Railroad, March 7, 1871
New York & Northern Railway

New York & Oswego Midland Railroad

New York & Ottawa Railway, organized January 19, 1905
New York & Putnam Railroad, January 13, 1894

New York and Bull's Ferry Railroad

New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, organized November 1, 1869
New York Central & Niagara River Railroad, March 26, 1877

New York Central Railroad, organization effective May 1, 1853

New York Central System Internet Resources

New York City & Northern Railroad

New York West Shore & Buffalo Railway, by consolidation June 14, 1881
New York West Shore & Chicago Railroad

New York Westchester & Putnam Railway

New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate Road)

New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company 
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad 
New York, Ontario & Western Railway

New York, Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society

New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad 
New York, Susquehanna & Western

Niagara Bridge & Canandaigua Railroad, August 25, 1858
Niagara Falls Branch Railroad, December 24, 1875

Niagara & Western New York Railroad Co. (tourist RR)
Norfork Southern Corp.

Northern Adirondack Extension Railroad, February 17, 1886

Northern Adirondack Railroad, February 9, 1883

Northern New York Railroad

Olean Railroad
Olean, Bradford & Warren Railroad 
Oswego & Rome Railroad, April 11, 1863

Oswego & Syracuse Railroad, chartered 1839
Owego & Harford Railway 

Penn Central Railroad Home Page 

Pennsylvania Railroad 

The Unofficial Pennsylvania Railroad Homepage  Chris Brandt’s Unofficial Pennsylvania Railroad Site  Rob’s Pennsy Home Page  The Pennsylvania Pages

Penn Yan & New York Railway, August 24, 1877
Pine Creek Railway 
Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern 
Pittsburgh Titusville & Buffalo

Potsdam & Watertown Railroad

Rochester & Lake Beach Railroad, February 1, 1888
Rochester & Lake Ontario Railroad, May 17, 1852

Rochester & Ontario Belt Railway, January 31, 1882

Rochester & Syracuse Railroad, consolidated August 1, 1850
Rochester Lockport & Niagara Falls Railroad, December 14, 1850
Rochester, Hornellsville and Lackawanna Railroad  
Rochester, New York & Pennsylvania Railroad

Rockland Central Extension Railroad, May 29, 1872

Rockland Central Railroad, May 23, 1870

Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad, organized April 20, 1885
Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Terminal Railroad

Salamanca, Bradford & Alleghany

Saratoga & Hudson River Railroad, April 16, 1864
Schenectady & Troy Railroad, May 21, 1836
South Buffalo Railway 
Southern Central Railroad - Newark Valley, NY 

Southern New York, Oneonta, NY

Southwestern Railway
Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris Railroad, March 4, 1869

St. Lawrence & Raquette River Railroad
St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway, May 4, 1888 (Canada) and July 2, 1896 (USA)
State Line and Stony Point Railroad, March 6, 1886 (never built)

Susquehanna & Clearfield Railroad, December 8, 1879
Susquehanna & South Western Railroad

Syracuse & Chenango Railroad, May 14, 1873

Syracuse & Chenango Valley Railroad, April 16, 1868

Syracuse & Utica Direct Railroad, January 26, 1853

Syracuse & Utica Railroad, May 11, 1836

Syracuse, Chenango & New York Railroad, April 7, 1877

Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railway,
Syracuse, Junction Railroad, June 9, 1873
Syracuse, North Western Railroad, September 19, 1874
Syracuse, Northern Railroad, February 25, 1868
Syracuse, Ontario & New York Railway,
Syracuse, Phoenix & Oswego Railway, February 16, 1885
Terminal Railway of Buffalo, incorporated June 12, 1895

Tioga Central Railroad - Wellsboro, PA (Tourist RR) 

Titusville & Oil City

Tivoli Hollow Railroad, May 15, 1893

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway

Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Historical Society

Trolley Museum of New York - Kingston, NY (Trolley Rides)

Troy & Greenbush Railroad Association, May 14, 1845
Ulster & Delaware Railroad

Unidilla Valley Railroad
Utica & Black River Railroad, May 22, 1861
Utica & Schenectady Railroad, April 29, 1833
Wallkill Valley Railroad, organized July 2, 1877

Warren Pine Grove

Watertown & Rome Railroad
Wellsboro & Lawrenceville Railroad, organized April 4, 1867
West Branch Valley Railroad, November 7, 1898
West Shore Railroad, organized December 5, 1885
Western New York & Pennsylvania Railway

Yonkers Rapid Transit Railway, New York Division
Yonkers Rapid Transit Railway, Yonkers Division

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