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)
• Batten Kill Railroad (BKRR)
• Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) (Genesee and Wyoming)
• Buffalo Southern Railroad (BSOR)
• Canadian National Railway (CN)
• Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) including 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) operates Staten Island Railroad (SIRR) (jointly owned by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway)
• 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)
• Saratoga and North Creek Railway (SNC) (Out of Service)
• SMS Rail Lines of New York (SNY) (Owned by SMS Rail Lines)
• Somerset Railroad (SOM) (Operated by CSX Transportation)
• South Buffalo Railway (SB)
• Pan Am Railways (PAR)
• Pan Am Southern (PAS) (Operated by Pan Am Railways)
• 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

• Kodak Park Railroad (Operated by Rochester Switching Services)
• Global Container Terminals New York
• South Brooklyn Railway (SBK)

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 and North Creek Railroad (tourist railway/ heritage railroad)
• Tioga Central Railroad (heritage railroad)
• Trolley Museum of New York (heritage light rail)
• Upper Hudson River Railroad (heritage railroad)

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
• Niagara Junction Railway
• 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

External links

• New York State railbeds