The Junction Railroad was chartered March 2, 1846, to build from Cleveland west to Toledo. The Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad was chartered March 7, 1850, to build from Toledo east to Grafton on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The latter company opened on January 24, 1853, finally forming a continuous Buffalo-Chicago line.
The Auburn and Syracuse Railroad was incorporated on May 1, 1834,[1] to provide easy access between Syracuse, New York, and the Erie Canal. Construction was begun in 1835, but was delayed during the Panic of 1837.
The Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad was a subsidiary of the Northern Central Railway and later the Pennsylvania Railroad, formed to give the Northern Central an outlet for coal traffic on Lake Ontario.
This line originated with the Canadaigua and Corning RR.
see section from 1895 journey from Elmira to Cleveland
The Railroad Comes to Town (1867) The Utica, Chenango and Susuehanna Valley Railroad reaches Waterville from Utica, November of 1867. Later to be DL&W, Utica Branch
History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York
By James Smith, 1880, Page 96
The Troy and Greenbush Railroad was chartered in 1845 and opened later that year, connecting Troy south to Greenbush (now Rensselaer) on the east side of the Hudson River. The Hudson River Railroad was chartered on May 12, 1846, to extend this line south to New York City; the full line opened on October 3, 1851. Prior to completion, on June 1, it leased the Troy and Greenbush.
Cornelius Vanderbilt obtained control of the Hudson River Railroad in 1864, soon after he bought the parallel New York and Harlem Railroad.
In 1845, the Hartford and New Haven merged with the Hartford and Springfield Railroad to form the New Haven, Hartford and Springfield Railroad. The company reverted back to the Hartford and New Haven Railroad name in 1847.
The New York and New Haven Railroad (NY&NH) was a railroad connecting New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, along the shore of Long Island Sound. It opened in 1849, and in 1872 it merged with the Hartford & New Haven Railroad to form the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
The railroad began as the Erie Railway, from 1861 to 1878. Because of financial battles between Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould as well as the problem of a standard railroad gauge, the Erie went bankrupt and was reorganized as the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad. By June of 1880, the railroad’s standard gauge conversion was completed. The NY,LE&W RR lasted until 1893 when it too went bankrupt. It was reorganized as the Erie Railroad. Note the name change from Railway to Railroad.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad (reporting mark LV) was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Pennsylvania.