User:NE2/Conrail predecessor subsidiaries
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Penn Central Transportation Company
[edit]- Penn Central Transportation Company to Conrail
- Boston and Providence Railroad merged 1972 (NH)
- Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad merged 1970 (NYC/PRR joint)
- Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Railway merged 1970 (NYC/PRR joint)
- New York Central Railroad merged 1968
- Beech Creek Extension Railroad merged 1961
- Boston and Albany Railroad merged 1961
- Federal Valley Railroad merged 1952
- Fulton Chain Railway merged 1937
- Genesee Falls Railway merged 1936
- Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheeling Railroad merged 1952
- New Jersey Junction Railroad merged 1952
- New York and Fort Lee Railroad merged 1952
- Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad merged 1961
- St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern Railroad conveyed 1943?
- Toledo and Ohio Central Railway merged 1952
- Bailey Run, Sugar Creek and Athens Railway merged 1938
- Kanawha and Michigan Railway merged 1938
- Point Pleasant Bridge Company conveyed 1935
- Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad merged 1938
- Middleport and Northeastern Railway merged 1938
- Zanesville and Western Railway merged 1938
- Ulster and Delaware Railroad conveyed 1932
- Wallkill Valley Railroad merged 1952
- Ware River Railroad merged 1961
- West Shore Railroad merged 1952
- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad merged 1968
- Central New England Railway merged 1927
- Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad merged 1927
- Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad merged 1947
- Old Colony Railroad merged 1947
- Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad merged 1947
- Pennsylvania Railroad merged 1968
- Cumberland Valley Railroad merged 1919
- Johnsonburg Railroad conveyed 1928
- Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad leased by Conrail
- Baltimore and Eastern Railroad to Conrail
- Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway conveyed 1928
- Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway conveyed 1924
- Beech Creek Railroad to Conrail
- Canada Southern Railway leased by Conrail
- Central Railroad of Indianapolis leased by Conrail
- Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway to Conrail
- Chicago River and Indiana Railroad to Conrail
- Chicago Junction Railway conveyed 1958
- Union Stock Yards and Transit Company conveyed 1958
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway to Conrail
- Cincinnati Northern Railroad merged 1938
- Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad merged 1938
- Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad merged 1938
- Columbus, Hope and Greensburg Railroad merged 1938
- Evansville, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway merged 1938
- Evansville, Mt. Carmel and Northern Railway merged 1938
- Muncie Belt Railway merged 1938
- Saline Valley Railway merged 1917
- Vernon, Greensburg and Rushville Railroad merged 1938
- Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad to Conrail
- Connecting Railway to Conrail
- Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad merged 1956
- Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway merged 1926
- Cleveland, Akron and Cincinnati Railway merged 1926
- Manufacturers Railway merged 1926
- Pennsylvania-Detroit Railroad merged 1926
- Toledo, Columbus and Ohio River Railroad merged 1926
- Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad merged 1956
- Delaware Railroad to Conrail
- Detroit Manufacturers Railroad to Conrail
- Detroit River Tunnel Company leased by Conrail
- Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad to Conrail
- Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad to Conrail
- Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad to Conrail
- Holyoke and Westfield Railroad to Conrail
- Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany to Conrail
- Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad to Conrail
- Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railroad to Conrail
- Little Miami Railroad to Conrail
- Columbus and Xenia Railroad merged 1943
- Dayton and Western Railroad merged 1943
- Mahoning Coal Railroad to Conrail
- Mahoning and Shenango Valley Company to Conrail
- Shenango Valley Railroad merged 1963
- Stewart Railroad merged 1963
- Michigan Central Railroad to Conrail
- Detroit, Hillsdale and South Western Railroad conveyed 1960
- North Brookfield Railroad to Conrail
- Northern Central Railway to Conrail
- Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad merged 1956
- Marion Railway merged 1931
- Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad merged 1956
- Norwich and Worcester Railroad to Conrail
- Penndel Company to Conrail
- Battle Creek and Sturgis Railway merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
- Camden and Burlington County Railway merged 1958
- Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad merged 1958
- Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company merged 1954
- Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
- Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company merged 1955
- Elmira and Williamsport Railroad merged 1969
- Englewood Connecting Railway merged 1954
- Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad merged 1958
- Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway merged 1954
- Indianapolis and Frankfort Railroad merged 1954
- Lansing Manufacturers Railroad merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
- Lansing Transit Railway merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
- Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway conveyed 1954
- Lykens Valley Railroad and Coal Company merged 1956
- New Cumberland and Pittsburgh Railway merged 1955
- New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad merged 1958
- Ohio Connecting Railway merged 1954
- Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad merged 1954
- Ohio River and Western Railway conveyed 1931
- Rosslyn Connecting Railroad merged 1969
- South Chicago and Southern Railroad merged 1954
- Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company merged 1954
- Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad merged 1957
- Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway merged 1955
- Bradford Railroad merged 1932
- Connecting Terminal Railroad merged 1931
- Wheeling Coal Railroad merged 1955
- Wheeling and Eastern Railroad merged 1955
- Wheeling Terminal Railway merged 1954
- York, Hanover and Frederick Railway merged 1954
- Youngstown and Ravenna Railroad merged 1954
- Zanesville Terminal Railroad merged 1969 (NYC/PRR joint)
- Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad to Conrail
- Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad to Conrail
- Peoria and Eastern Railway to Conrail
- Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad to Conrail
- Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad conveyed 1919
- Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad merged 1956
- Maryland and Denton Seacoast Railroad conveyed 1935 (Ellendale-Milton; West Denton-Denton went to Baltimore and Eastern Railroad)
- Maryland and Delaware Coast Railway conveyed 1932
- Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway conveyed 1924
- Maryland and Delaware Coast Railway conveyed 1932
- Maryland and Denton Seacoast Railroad conveyed 1935 (Ellendale-Milton; West Denton-Denton went to Baltimore and Eastern Railroad)
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad merged 1956
- Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad conveyed 1927
- Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad to Conrail
- Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway to Conrail
- Massillon and Cleveland Railroad conveyed 1928
- Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway to Conrail
- St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway leased by Conrail
- Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad to Conrail
- South Manchester Railroad to Conrail
- Troy and Greenbush Railroad to Conrail
- Union Railroad of Baltimore to Conrail
- United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company to Conrail
- Belvidere Delaware Railroad merged 1957-58
- Harrison and East Newark Connecting Railroad merged 1954
- New York Bay Railroad merged 1956
- Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad merged 1957-58
- Rocky Hill Railroad and Transportation Company merged 1957-58
- Waynesburg Southern Railroad to Conrail
- Waynesburg and Washington Railroad to Conrail
Erie Lackawanna Railway
[edit]- Erie Lackawanna Railway to Conrail
- Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged 1960
- Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad merged 1946
- Chester Railroad merged 1945
- Erie and Central New York Railroad merged 1945
- Greene Railroad merged 1946
- Hopatcong Railroad merged ca. 1943
- Lackwanna Railroad of New Jersey merged 1945
- Lackawanna and Montrose Railroad merged 1928
- Morris and Essex Railroad merged 1945
- Morris and Essex Extension Railroad merged 1947
- New York, Lackawanna and Western Railway merged 1945
- Newark and Bloomfield Railroad merged 1945
- Oswego and Syracuse Railroad merged 1945
- Passaic and Delaware Railroad merged 1945
- Passaic and Delaware Extension Railroad merged 1947
- Sussex Railroad merged 1945
- Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad merged 1945
- Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway merged 1945
- Valley Railroad conveyed 1945
- Warren Railroad merged 1945
- Erie Railroad merged 1960
- Arlington Railroad conveyed 1942
- Bergen County Railroad conveyed 1942
- Bergen and Dundee Railroad conveyed 1942
- Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad conveyed 1941
- Caldwell Railway conveyed 1943
- Chicago and Erie Railroad conveyed 1941
- Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railway conveyed 1941
- Columbus and Erie Railroad conveyed 1941
- Conesus Lake Railroad merged 1932
- Docks Connecting Railway conveyed 1942
- Erie and Black Rock Railroad merged 1932
- Erie Terminals Railroad conveyed 1942
- Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad conveyed 1941
- Goshen and Deckertown Railway conveyed 1954
- Jefferson Railroad conveyed 1941
- Long Dock Company conveyed 1942
- Middletown and Crawford Railroad merged 1932
- Montgomery and Erie Railway conveyed 1954
- Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad conveyed 1941
- New York and Greenwood Lake Railway conveyed 1943
- New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company conveyed 1941
- Brockport and Shawmut Railroad conveyed 1940
- New York, Lake Erie and Western Docks and Improvement Company conveyed 1942
- Newark and Hudson Railroad conveyed 1942
- Northern Railroad of New Jersey conveyed 1943
- Nyack and Southern Railroad merged 1944
- Nypano Railroad conveyed 1941
- Westerman Coal and Iron Railroad conveyed 1941
- Paterson and Hudson River Railroad conveyed 1953
- Paterson, Newark and New York Railroad conveyed 1942
- Paterson and Ramapo Railroad conveyed 1946
- Penhorn Creek Railroad conveyed 1942
- Rayen Terminals Company conveyed 1941
- Roseland Railway conveyed 1943
- Sharon Railway conveyed 1953
- Tioga Railroad conveyed 1941
- Arnot and Pine Creek Railroad merged 1937
- Union Railroad merged 1946
- West Clarion Railroad conveyed 1941
- Youngstown and Austintown Railway conveyed 1941
- New Jersey and New York Railroad conveyed 1967
- New Jersey and New York Extension Railroad merged 1936
- Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged 1960
- Hoboken Ferry Company to Conrail
- Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway to Conrail
- Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad to Conrail
- Syracuse and Baldwinsville Railway abandoned?
Other
[edit]- Allentown Terminal Railroad to Conrail
- Ann Arbor Railroad to Conrail
- Menominee and St. Paul Railway merged 1958
- Bay Shore Connecting Railroad to Conrail
- Buffalo Creek Railroad to Conrail in 1983
- Central Indiana Railway to Conrail
- Central Railroad of New Jersey to Conrail
- Hibernia Mine Railroad conveyed 1930
- Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Railway conveyed 1963
- Central Railroad of Pennsylvania to Conrail
- Easton and Western Railroad renamed 1944
- Dayton Union Railway to Conrail
- Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad to Conrail
- Dover and Rockaway Railroad to Conrail
- East Pennsylvania Railroad to Conrail
- Indianapolis Union Railway to Conrail
- Ironton Railroad to Conrail
- Lehigh and Hudson River Railway to Conrail
- Lehigh and New England Railway to Conrail
- Lehigh and New England Railroad conveyed 1961
- Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad leased by Conrail
- Lehigh Valley Railroad to Conrail
- Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad merged 1949
- Easton and Northern Railroad merged 1949
- Lehigh and New York Railroad merged 1949
- Lehigh Valley Railroad of New Jersey merged 1949
- Lehigh Valley Railway merged 1949
- Lehigh Valley Harbor Terminal Railway merged 1949
- Loyalsock Railroad merged 1949
- Montrose Railroad merged 1949
- Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company merged 1949
- Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad merged 1949
- State Line and Sullivan Railroad merged 1949
- Mount Hope Mineral Railroad to Conrail
- New York Connecting Railroad to Conrail
- New York and Long Branch Railroad to Conrail
- Niagara Junction Railway to Conrail
- North Pennsylvania Railroad to Conrail
- Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines to Conrail
- Atlantic City Railroad renamed 1933
- Stone Harbor Railroad merged 1936
- Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad merged 1935
- Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad to Conrail
- Plymouth Railroad to Conrail
- Port Reading Railroad to Conrail
- Raritan River Railroad to Conrail in 1980
- Reading Company to Conrail
- Allentown Railroad merged 1945
- Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad conveyed 1928
- Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad merged 1944
- Catawissa Railroad merged 1953
- Chester and Delaware River Railroad merged 1923
- Chestnut Hill Railroad merged 1948
- Colebrookdale Railroad merged 1945
- East Mahanoy Railroad merged 1951
- Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway merged 1945
- Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company merged 1952
- Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad merged 1923
- Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad merged 1951
- Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company merged 1950
- Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad merged 1949
- New York Short Line Railroad merged 1923
- Norristown and Main Line Connecting Railroad merged 1923
- Norristown Junction Railroad merged 1923
- North East Pennsylvania Railroad merged 1945
- Peoples Railway merged 1945
- Perkiomen Railroad merged 1945
- Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad merged 1945
- Philadelphia and Frankford Railroad merged 1923
- Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad merged 1923
- Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad merged 1945
- Philadelphia and Reading Railway merged 1923
- Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad merged 1944
- Pickering Valley Railroad merged 1945
- Reading Belt Railroad merged 1923
- Reading and Columbia Railroad merged 1945
- Rupert and Bloomsburg Railroad merged 1923
- Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad merged 1923
- Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company merged 1950
- Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad merged 1923
- Stony Creek Railroad merged 1945
- Tamaqua, Hazleton and Northern Railroad merged 1923
- Williams Valley Railroad merged 1947
- Trenton-Princeton Traction Company to Conrail
- Union Depot Company (Columbus, Ohio) to Conrail
- West Jersey and Seashore Railroad to Conrail
- Wharton and Northern Railroad to Conrail
- Wilmington and Northern Railroad to Conrail
- Hayts Corners, Ovid and Willard Railroad
- Lehigh – Buffalo Terminal Railway
- Raritan Terminal and Transportation Company
- Beaver Meadow, Tresckow and New Boston Railroad
- East Trenton Railroad
- Mount Carmel Railroad
- Schuylkill Bridge at Swedes Ford
- Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
- Nesquehoning Valley Railroad merged 1963
- Tresckow Railroad merged 1963
Abandoned or split out
[edit]This list doesn't include all subsidiaries.
- Avon, Geneseo and Mount Morris Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1940
- Bath and Hammondsport Railroad (Erie) closed 1935, sold 1936
- Barnegat Railroad abandoned 1923
- Boston Terminal Company (NH) sold to Boston Redevelopment Authority 1965
- Canada Southern Bridge Company (NYC) abandoned
- Caton and Loudon Railway (PRR) lease terminated 1972, abandonment authorized 1973
- Catonsville Short Line Railroad conveyed 1945
- Chatham Railroad (NH) lease terminated 1936, abandonment authorized 1937
- Chester and Becket Railroad (NYC) abandonment authorized 1931
- Elmira State Line Railroad (Erie) abandoned ca. 1942
- Eriton Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1933
- Findlay Belt Railway (NYC) abandoned
- Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad (NYC)
- Campbell Hall Connecting Railroad (L&NE) abandoned 1961
- Long Island Rail Road (PRR)
- Glendale and East River Railroad merged 1928
- Long Island Rail Road North Shore Branch merged 1921
- New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway merged 1925
- New York and Rockaway Beach Railway merged 1921
- Lorain, Ashland and Southern Railroad abandoned 1925
- Mahoning State Line Railroad (NYC)
- Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad (AA) abandoned 1968
- Mt. Gilead Short Line Railway (NYC) abandoned ca. 1965
- New York and Harlem Railroad (NYC)
- New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NH)
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (Erie)
- Ogden Mine Railroad (CNJ) abandoned 1941
- Ottawa and New York Railway (NYC)
- Philadelphia and Beach Haven Railroad closed 1935, abandonment authorized 1936
- Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company abandoned 1952
- Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (NYC)
- Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad merged 1965
- Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad (NYC) abandoned ca. 1958 (except for a short piece to the NH)
- Providence and Worcester Railroad (NH) lease terminated 1973
- Raquette Lake Railway (NYC) abandoned 1933
- Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad (RDG) abandoned 1930
- Rutland Railroad (NH/NYC)
- St. Clair and Western Railroad (NYC) abandoned
- Susquehanna Connecting Railroad
- Tipton Railroad (PRR) abandoned in 1920s
- Union Freight Railroad sold to Boston Redevelopment Authority 1969
- Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1940
- Wood River Branch Railroad (NH) abandoned
- Youghiogheny Northern Railway (NYC) abandoned