Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad

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Incorporated December 14, 1850. This company rebuilt and opened in July 1852, the road originally incorporated April 24, 1834, as the Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad. The original line was opened in 1838 and sold June 2, 1850. Consolidated into The New York Central Railroad Company under the act of 1853.

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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)