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List of New York railroads
The following railroads currently or formerly operated in the U.S. state of New York.
Common freight carriers
•
Albany Port Railroad
(APD) (Port of Albany) •
Arcade and Attica Railroad
(ARA) •
B&H Rail Corporation
(BH) (Owned by
Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad
) •
Berkshire and Eastern Railroad
(B&E) operated by
Genesee & Wyoming
on tracks owned by
Pan Am Southern
(PAS) after CSX and Norfolk Southern acquired it in 2022. •
Buffalo Southern Railroad
(BSOR) •
Canadian National Railway
(CN) •
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
(CPKC) including
Canadian Pacific
(CPR) and subsidiary
Delaware and Hudson Railway
(DH) •
Central New York Railroad
(CNYK) (operated by
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
) •
Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad
(CLP) (owned by
Vermont Railway
) •
Conrail Shared Assets Operations
(CSAO) (jointly owned by
CSX Transportation
and
Norfolk Southern Railway
, it operates the western portion of the North Shore Branch of the
Staten Island Railroad
(SIR) •
CSX Transportation
(CSXT) •
Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad
(DLWR) (Genesee Valley Transportation) •
Falls Road Railroad
(FRR) (Genesee Valley Transportation) •
Finger Lakes Railway
(FGLK) •
Frontier Rail
(FRRX) •
Housatonic Railroad
(HRRC) •
Ithaca Central Railroad
(ITHR) (Watco Companies) •
Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad
(LAL) •
Lowville and Beaver River Railroad
(LBR) (out of service) •
Massena Terminal Railroad
(MSTR) (Genesee and Wyoming Railroad) •
Middletown and New Jersey Railroad
(MNJ) (Regional Rail) •
Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad
(MHWA) (Genesee Valley Transportation) •
New York and Atlantic Railway
(NYA) (Anacostia Rail Holdings) •
New York and Lake Erie Railroad
(NYLE) •
New York New Jersey Rail, LLC
(NYNJ) •
New York and Ogdensburg Railway
(NYOG) (Owned by
Vermont Railway
) •
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway
(NYSW) •
Norfolk Southern Railway
(NS) •
Ontario Central Railroad
(ONCT) (Operated by
Finger Lakes Railway
) •
Ontario Midland Railroad
(OMID) •
Owego and Harford Railway
(OHRY) •
Providence and Worcester Railroad
(PW) (Genesee and Wyoming) •
Rochester and Southern Railroad
(RSR) (Genesee and Wyoming) •
SMS Rail Lines of New York
(SNY) (Owned by
SMS Rail Lines
) •
Somerset Railroad
(SOM) (Operated by
CSX Transportation
) •
South Buffalo Railway
(SB) •
Vermont Railway
(VTR) •
Wellsboro and Corning Railroad
(WCOR) (Genesee and Wyoming) •
Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad
(WNYP) (Owned by
Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad
) ==Private carriers==
Private carriers
•
Kodak Park Railroad
(Operated by
Rochester Switching Services
) •
Port Liberty New York ExpressRail
•
South Brooklyn Railway
(SBK) (owned by NYC Transit and is only used for delivery of new subway rolling stock) ==Passenger carriers==
Passenger carriers
•
Amtrak
(AMTK) (
high-speed rail
,
intercity rail
, and long-distance rail)
Commuter rail
•
Long Island Rail Road
(LI) (
commuter rail
) •
Metro-North Railroad
(MNCW) (commuter rail) •
New Jersey Transit Rail Operations
(NJTR) (commuter rail)
Rapid transit
•
AirTrain JFK
(
people mover
) •
Buffalo Metro Rail
(
light rail metro
) •
New York City Subway
(
rapid transit
/
heavy rail
) •
Port Authority Trans-Hudson
(PATH) (rapid transit/heavy rail) •
Staten Island Railway
(SIR) (heavy rail/commuter rail/rapid transit)
Heritage railroad
•
Adirondack Scenic Railroad
(ADIX) (
tourist railway
/
heritage railroad
) •
Arcade and Attica Railroad
(ARA) (seasonally runs tourist trains; mostly a freight carrier) •
Catskill Mountain Railroad
(CMRR) (
heritage railroad
) •
Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad
(CACV) (heritage railroad) •
Delaware and Ulster Railroad
(DURR) (heritage railroad) •
Medina Railroad Museum
(heritage railroad) •
New York Museum of Transportation
(heritage railroad) •
New York Transit Museum
(operates historical trains throughout the New York City Subway System) •
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
(RGVM) (operating railroad museum) •
Saratoga Corinth and Hudson Railway
(heritage railroad) •
Tioga Central Railroad
(heritage railroad) •
Trolley Museum of New York
(heritage light rail) •
Upper Hudson River Railroad
(heritage railroad) ==Defunct railroads==
Defunct railroads
Street and electric railways
•
Adirondack Lakes' Traction Company
•
Albany and Hudson Railroad
•
Albany and Hudson Railway and Power Company
•
Albany Southern Railroad
•
Amsterdam Street Railroad
•
Atlantic Avenue Railroad
•
Auburn and Northern Electric Railroad
•
Auburn and Syracuse Electric Railroad
•
Babylon Railroad
•
Ballston Terminal Railroad
•
Batavia Traction Company
•
Belt Line Railway
•
Bennington and North Adams Street Railway
•
Berkshire Street Railway
•
Binghamton Railway
•
Black River Traction Company
•
Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
•
Bridge Operating Company
•
Broadway Railroad
•
Broadway Railway
•
Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad
•
Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
•
Bronx Traction Company
•
Brooklyn Central Railroad
•
Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad
•
Brooklyn City Railroad
•
Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad
•
Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad
•
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
•
Brooklyn Elevated Railway
•
Brooklyn Elevated Silent Safety Railway
•
Brooklyn Heights Railroad
•
Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway
•
Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
•
Brooklyn and North River Railroad
•
Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
•
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
•
Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad
•
Buffalo City Railway
•
Buffalo and Depew Railway
•
Buffalo and Erie Railway
•
Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company
•
Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway
•
Buffalo Southern Railway
•
Buffalo and Williamsville Electric Railway
•
Bush Terminal Railroad
•
Bushwick Railroad
•
Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad
•
Canarsie Railroad
•
Catskill Electric Railway
•
Cayadutta Electric Railroad
•
Cedarhurst Railway
•
Central City Rail Way
•
Central Crosstown Railroad
•
Central Park, North and East River Railroad
•
Chautauqua Traction Company
•
Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
•
City Island Railroad
•
Cohoes Railway
•
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
•
Coney Island Elevated Railway
•
Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad
•
Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
•
Corning and Painted Post Street Railway
•
Cortland County Traction Company
•
Crosstown Street Railway of Buffalo
•
DeKalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad
•
DeKalb Avenue and North Brooklyn Railroad
•
Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
•
East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad
•
Eastern New York Railroad
•
Echo Line Railroad
•
Eighth Avenue Railroad
•
Electric City Railway
•
Elmira, Corning and Waverly Railway
•
Elmira and Seneca Lake Traction Company
•
Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company
•
Empire State Railroad
•
Far Rockaway Railroad
•
Fishkill Electric Railway
•
Flushing and College Point Electric Railway
•
Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad
•
Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
•
Fort George Extension Railway
•
Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
•
Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway
•
Freeport Railroad
•
Fulton Street Railroad
•
Geneva, Seneca Falls and Auburn Railroad
•
Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake Traction Company
•
Gilbert Elevated Railway
•
Glen Cove Railroad
•
Gloversville Street Electric Railroad
•
Grand Street and Newtown Railroad
•
Great South Bay Ferry Company
•
Greenbush and Nassau Electric Railway
•
Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad
•
Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad
•
Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham Railway
•
Hornell Traction Company
•
Hornellsville and Canisteo Railway
•
Hornellsville Electric Railway
•
Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
•
Hudson Light and Power and Railroad Company
•
Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
•
Hudson River and Eastern Traction Company
•
Hudson Street Railway
•
Hudson Tunnel Railway
•
Hudson Valley Railway
•
Huntington Railroad
•
Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad
•
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
•
International Railway
•
Ithaca Street Railway
•
Ithaca Traction Corporation
•
Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad
•
Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company
•
Jamaica Central Railways
•
Jamestown Street Railway
•
Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad
•
Jerome Park Railway
•
Johnstown, Gloversville and Kingsboro Horse Railroad
•
Kaydeross Railroad
•
Keeseville, Ausable Chasm and Lake Champlain Railroad
•
Kings County Electric Railway
•
Kings County Elevated Railway
•
Kingsbridge Railway
•
Kingston Consolidated Railroad
•
Long Beach Marine Railway
•
Long Island City and Newtown Railroad
•
Long Island Electric Railway
•
Long Island Traction Company
•
Manhattan Railway Company
•
Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
•
Manhattan and Queens Traction Company
•
Manhattan and Queens Traction Corporation
•
Marine Railway
•
Melrose and West Morrisania Railroad
•
Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
•
Metropolitan Elevated Railway
•
Metropolitan Street Railway
•
Mid-Crosstown Railway
•
Mineola, Hempstead and Freeport Traction Company
•
Mineola, Roslyn and Port Washington Traction Company
•
Mount Beacon-on-Hudson Association
•
Mount Vernon and Eastchester Railway
•
Nassau Railroad
•
Nassau County Railway
•
Nassau Electric Railroad
•
New Paltz, Highland and Poughkeepsie Traction Company
•
New Rochelle Railway and Transit Company
•
New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad
•
New York Railways
•
New York, Auburn and Lansing Railroad
•
New York City Railway
•
New York City Interborough Railway
•
New York and Coney Island Railroad
•
New York Consolidated Railroad
•
New York Elevated Railroad
•
New York, Fordham and Bronx Railway
•
New York and Harlem Railroad
•
New York and Jersey Railroad
•
New York and Long Island Traction Company
•
New York Municipal Railway
•
New York and North Shore Railway
•
New York and North Shore Traction Company
•
New York and Queens County Railway
•
New York and Stamford Railway
•
New York State Railways
•
New York, Westchester and Connecticut Traction Company
•
Newark and Marion Railway
•
Newtown Railway
•
Niagara Gorge Railroad
•
Ninth Avenue Railroad
•
North and East River Railway
•
North End Street Railway
•
North Third Avenue and Fleetwood Park Railroad
•
Northport Traction Company
•
Ocean Electric Railway
•
Ogdensburg Street Railway
•
One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street Crosstown Railroad
•
Oneida Railway
•
Oneonta and Mohawk Valley Railroad
•
Orange County Traction Company
•
Park Avenue Railroad
•
Paul Smith's Electric Light and Power and Railroad Company
•
Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company
•
Pelham Park Railroad
•
Pelham Park and City Island Railway
•
Penn Yan, Keuka Park and Branchport Railway
•
Penn Yan and Lake Shore Railway
•
Plattsburgh Traction Company
•
Port Jervis Electric Light, Power, Gas and Railroad Company
•
Port Jervis Traction Company
•
Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers Falls Electric Railway
•
Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls Railway
•
Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad
•
Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad
•
Putnam and Westchester Traction Company
•
Queens Railway
•
Queensboro Bridge Railway Company
•
Richmond County Railroad
•
Richmond Light and Railroad Company
•
Richmond Street Railway
•
Rochester Railway Company
•
Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway
•
Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad
•
Rochester and Manitou Railroad
•
Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway
•
Rochester and Suburban Railway
•
Rochester Subway
(RSB) •
Rochester and Syracuse Railroad
•
Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railroad
•
Rockaway Village Railroad
•
St. Lawrence International Electric Railroad and Land Company
•
Schenectady Railway
•
Sea Beach Railway
•
Sea View Railroad
•
Seashore Municipal Railroad
•
Second Avenue Railroad
•
Sixth Avenue Railroad
•
Soundview Transportation Company
•
South Brooklyn Street Railroad
•
South Ferry Railroad
•
South Shore Traction Company
•
Southern Boulevard Railroad
•
Southern New York Railway
•
Southern New York Power and Railway Corporation
•
Southfield Beach Railroad
•
Staten Island Electric Railroad
•
Staten Island Horse Railroad
•
Staten Island Midland Railroad
•
Staten Island Midland Railway
•
Staten Island Traction Company
•
Suburban Rapid Transit Company
•
Suburban Traction Company
•
Suffolk Traction Company
•
Syracuse, Lake Shore and Northern Railroad
•
Syracuse Northern Electric Railway
•
Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway
•
Syracuse and South Bay Electric Railroad
•
Syracuse and Suburban Railroad
•
Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway
•
Third Avenue Railroad
•
Third Avenue Railway
•
Third Avenue Bridge Company
•
Thirty-fourth Street Railroad
•
Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway
•
Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
•
Troy and New England Railway
•
Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth Streets Crosstown Railroad
•
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
•
Twenty-third Street Railway
•
Union Railroad
•
Union Railway of New York City
•
United Railroad
•
United Traction Company
•
Utica Belt Line Street Railroad
•
Utica and Mohawk Valley Railway
•
Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
•
Van Nest, West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
•
Wakefield and Westchester Traction Company
•
Wallkill Transit Company
•
Warren and Jamestown Street Railway
•
Washington Street and State Asylum Railroad
•
Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Company
•
West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
•
West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway
•
Westchester Electric Railroad
•
Westchester Street Railroad
•
Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
•
Williamsbridge and Westchester Traction Company
•
Yonkers Railroad
Other passenger carriers
•
Niagara and Western New York Railroad
•
OnTrack
•
Prospect Park Incline Railway
Private carriers
•
Crown Point Iron Company's Railroad
•
Fulton Chain Railroad
•
Marion River Carry Railroad
•
Peekskill Iron Company
Not completed
•
Dunderberg Spiral Railway
•
New England and Oswego Railroad
•
New York and Boston Rapid Transit Company
•
Ogdensburg, Clayton and Rome Railroad
•
Portland, Rutland, Oswego and Chicago Railroad
==Notes==
Source: Wikipedia ↗
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