Rochester and Syracuse Railroad
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Consolidation, under date of August 1, 1850, of the Auburn and Rochester Railroad Company, which was incorporated May 13, 1836, and road opened in August 1841; and the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad Company, which was incorporated May 1, 1834, and road opened in June 1838. The Direct Railway between Syracuse and Rochester, incorporated June 18, 1848, was merged with the Rochester and Syracuse Railroad under date of August 6, 1850. Consolidated into The New York Central Railroad Company under the act of 1853.
| New York Central Railroad subsidiaries |
| The New York Central was formed from 10 smaller companies in 1853, with leases on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls and Rochester and Lake Ontario. Its original system included the main line as well as the Auburn Road, Falls Road, Schenectady and Troy and Buffalo and Lockport.
Lewiston (1854) - Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua (1858) In 1867 Cornelius Vanderbilt gained control of the New York Central. He already controlled the following lines: Hudson River - Harlem Canada Southern - Michigan Central - Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad (1871) - Lake Shore (ca. 1877) - Geneva and Lyons (1878) - Nickel Plate (1882) - West Shore (1885) - Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad (1891) - Putnam (1894) - Gardenville (1898) - Boston and Albany Railroad (1900) - Rutland (1904) - New York and Ottawa (1905) |
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