Talk:Queens Surface Corporation
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[edit] QUEENS SURFACE HISTORY FROM QS WEBSITE
The QS website: Surface Lines History is on borrowed time. Eventually, it will be abandoned - they stopped updating it when MTA Bus took over. - SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 20:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Surface Corporation is the successor to a long line of companies extending back to the inception of horsecar service in the Village of Astoria in the 1860s. In 1988, Queens Surface Corporation was formed to replace the Queens/Steinway Transit Corporation (Q/STC), which was established from the merger of the Queens Transit Corporation and the Steinway Transit Corporation in 1986. Q/STC was owned by the Salzberg interests, a scrap metal and short line railroad operator, since it acquired the old New York & Queens County Railway Company in 1932. This acquisition was made for the purpose of replacing the street railway operations with buses and selling the scrap steel.
