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An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways , closed railways , former railway lines , or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage.
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
Work stopped when the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad bought out the company in 1904. [133] Buffalo Extension of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad - 1865 was building from Randolph to Buffalo but opened nothing. [134] [135] Delaware Railroad - 1898 did some work on an electric line from Delhi to Andes with a branch to Bovina Center. [136]
The Pennsylvania Railroad bought its first 75 freight cars in 1849. [3]: 20 Two years later, the Pennsy owned 439 freight cars. By 1857, it had 1,861 cars, and in 1866, 9,379 cars. [54]: 663 Freight equipment was either acquired new from builders or built by the railroad itself. [3]: 433
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S. bankruptcy judge. It was the first Class I U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. [11]
Railroad historians mark the 1906 Hepburn Act that gave the ICC the power to set maximum railroad rates as a damaging blow to the long-term profitability and growth of railroads. [145] After 1910 the lines faced an emerging trucking industry to compete with for freight, and automobiles and buses to compete for passenger service.
The Wilmington and Northern Branch is a partially-abandoned railway line in the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania. It was constructed between 1869 and 1870 by the Wilmington and Reading Railroad, a predecessor of the Wilmington and Northern Railroad. At its fullest extent it connected Reading, Pennsylvania, with Wilmington, Delaware.
Williamsport on the C&O Canal was the WM's western terminus from 1873, and its principal source of coal traffic until the main line was extended to Cumberland in 1906 The station in Pen Mar, Maryland, c. 1878; the Western Maryland Railway built Pen Mar Park as a mountain resort in 1877 and ran excursion trains to it from Baltimore.