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The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The station on a 1951 postcard Bas Relief.. The passenger station, the third of ultimately four stations built by the New York Central Railroad to serve Syracuse, was built in 1936, when the railroad tracks that previously went through the city of Syracuse via Washington Street, at grade with pedestrians and automobiles, were elevated above city streets.
Millwood was a railroad station on the New York and Putnam Railroad in the hamlet of Millwood in New Castle, New York. It was located on Station Road just south of the southeast corner of the west end of the NY 120/133 overlap. Originally built by the New York and Putnam Railroad in 1881, this later became the Putnam Division of the New York ...
The West Shore Railroad opened a route to New York City in 1848. A "rate war" led to the demise of the road, which was leased to the New York Central Railroad. [1] West Shore secured its franchise in Syracuse in 1881, and was opened on October 1, 1883 [4] The Syracuse & Utica Railroad made its first arrival in 1889.
Former New York Central Railroad stations (6 C, 191 P) L. New York Central Railroad lines (6 C, 33 P) New York Central Railroad locomotives (19 P) P.
New York Central 3001 (Alco #69338 of 1940): The largest surviving example of the NYC's modern steam power technology; only surviving L-3a class Mohawk; one of two surviving NYC 4-8-2 engines; one of the fastest locomotives of its time; primarily designed for mountain grades, it hauled passengers at speeds up to 80 mph (130 km/h) along the NYC's "Water Level Route" in the state of New York.
The line the Central New York Railroad (CNYK) originally operated on, which was a 21.7-mile (34.9 km) branch line between Richfield Junction near Cassville and Richfield Springs, New York, was first opened in November 1872, when it began serving as a branch for the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway. [2]
The New York Central Railroad (NYCRR) was formed on December 22, 1914, as a consolidation of the companies listed below. It later merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central . The NYCRR owned stock in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Erie and Western Railroad , but sold it in July 1917 and April 1922 ...