The “Bald Eagle Valley railroad company” was a successor in reorganization to the “Tyrone and Lock Haven railroad company’, which was incorporated early in 1857 to build a line connecting the Pennsylvania at Tyrone with the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad* at Lock Haven, Pa., a distance of some 54 miles. The road completed by the predecessor company was 4.2 miles, from Snow Shoe Intersection to Milesburg and from Milesburg to Bellefonte, Pa.

This road, from Jackson to Grand Rapids was opened in 1870. It was 83.79 miles long with 17.01 miles of sidings and spur tracks. It was standard gauge. It was 22 years from being chartered until it was built.

Built → Grand River Valley Railroad → Michigan Central Railroad

Chartered: 1846

Built: 1870 from Rives Junction to Grand Rapids.

Operated for less than 1 year.

Became: Michigan Central when line was completed in 1870.

Reference: [MRRC]

The railroad of the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway Company, hereinafter called the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley, is a single-track line located within the State of New York and extending from Greene to Utica, a distance of 75.875 miles, with a branch line from Richfield Junction to Richfield Springs, aggregating 97.662 miles of road.

The West Shore Railroad was the final name of a railroad that ran from Weehawken, New Jersey, on the west bank of the Hudson River opposite New York City, north to Albany, New York, and then west to