This list include very varied financial entities. From completely defunct companies, to operating companies with operations turned into investments, some hanging onto a corporate skeleton owning properties as holding companies, or have assigned their properties in mergers, bankruptcy or other legal acts (dissolution of the corporation) and finally others having become extinct—their works either torn up and hopefully recycled, or sold off to operating companies. This list does not indicate which is which.
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Long Island RR
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New York, New Haven and Hartford RR
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Central Railroad of New Jersey
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New York Central and Hudson River RR
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Delaware and Hudson RR
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Syracuse, Binghamton and New York RR
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Pere Marquette RR
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Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
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Chicago and North Western RR
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Boston and Maine RR
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New York, Chicago and St. Louis RR
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Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton RR
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Mobile & Ohio RR
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Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad
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Cumberland Valley Railroad
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Alton Railroad
- Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway 1987-1989
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad 1972-1987
- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad 1947-1972
- Alton Railroad 1931-1947 Subsidiary of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad 1947-1972
- Illinois Central Gulf Railroad 1972-1987
- Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway 1987-1989
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Penn Central Transportation Company
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Lakeshore and Michigan Southern RR
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New York Central Railroad
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, and Syracuse.
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Northern Central Railway
The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad connecting Baltimore, Maryland with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858, the line came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861, when the PRR acquired a controlling interest in the Northern Central's stock to compete with the rival Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O).
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy RR
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Philadelphia and Reading RR
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Pennsylvania RR
An anecdote found in Day By Day for March 4, 1906:
Mark Twain Got the Stateroom.