User:DanTD/Sandbox/List of Long Island Rail Road precursors

This was supposed to be a list similar to affiliates of larger railroads within the United States. I welcome the potential transfer of this draft for a future article.

Full list of affiliated or predecessor railroads

This is nested by mergers and reorganizations except where a company was not merged.

• Long Island Rail Road inc. 1834
  • New York and Jamaica Railroad inc. 1859, merged 1860
  • Hicksville and Cold Spring Branch Railroad inc. 1853, merged 1870
  • Central Railroad of Long Island inc. 1871, merged 1879
  • Central Railroad Extension inc. 1873, merged 1882
  • Long Island City and Flushing Railroad inc. 1881, merged 1889
    • Flushing and North Side Railroad inc. 1868, reorg. 1881
      • Flushing and Woodside Railroad inc. 1864, merged 1871
      • North Side Railroad of Long Island merged???
    • North Shore Railroad inc. 1863, merged 1884
    • Whitestone and Westchester Railroad inc. 1871, merged 1887
  • Newtown and Flushing Railroad inc. 1871, merged 1889?
  • Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad inc. 1879, merged 1889
    • Southern Railroad of Long Island inc. 1874, reorg. 1879 and 1880
      • South Side Railroad of Long Island inc. 1860, reorg. 1874
        • Hunters Point and South Side Railroad inc. 1870, merged 1872
        • Rockaway Railway inc. 1871, merged 1872
    • Far Rockaway Branch Railroad inc. 1868, merged 1882
  • New York and Flushing Railroad inc. 1859, merged 1891
    • Flushing Railroad inc. 1852, reorg. 1859
  • Stewart Railroad uninc., merged 1892
  • New York Bay Extension Railroad inc. 1892, merged 1902
  • Montauk Extension Railroad inc. 1893, merged 1902
  • Great Neck and Port Washington Railroad inc. 1896, merged 1902
  • New York and Long Beach Railroad inc. 1880, merged 1907
    • Long Beach Marine Railway inc. 1881, merged 1886?
  • Jamaica and South Shore Railroad inc. 1903, merged 1912
    • New York and Rockaway Railroad inc. 1870, reorg. 1903
  • Oyster Bay Extension Railroad inc. 1886, merged 1913
  • Long Island Railroad, North Shore Branch inc. 1892, merged 1921
    • Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad inc. 1870, merged 1892
  • New York and Rockaway Beach Railway inc. 1887, merged 1922
    • New York, Woodhaven and Rockaway Railroad inc. 1877, reorg. 1887
  • New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway inc. 1885, merged 1925
    • New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad inc. 1875, merged 1885
    • New York and Manhattan Beach Railway inc. 1876, merged 1885
    • Long Island City and Manhattan Beach Railroad inc. 1883, merged 1885
  • Glendale and East River Railroad inc. 1874, merged 1928

• Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad inc. 1874, disintegrated???
  • Flushing and North Side Railroad inc. 1868, merged 1874*
  • Central Railroad of Long Island inc. 1871, merged 1874*
  • Central Railroad Extension inc. 1873, merged 1874*
  • Whitestone and Westchester Railroad inc. 1871, merged 1874*
  • North Shore Railroad inc. 1863, merged 1874*
  • North Shore and Port Washington Railroad merged 1874
  • Roslyn and Huntington Railroad inc. 1874, merged 1874

Central Railroad of Long Island

• Central Railroad of Long Island inc. 1871, merged 1879
  • Central Railroad Extension inc. 1873, merged 1882
  • Stewart Railroad uninc., merged 1892

Flushing and North Side Railroad

• Flushing Railroad inc. 1852, reorg. 1859
  • New York and Flushing Railroad inc. 1859, merged 1891
  • Flushing and North Side Railroad inc. 1868, merged 1874*
    • • Flushing and Woodside Railroad inc. 1864, merged 1871
      • North Side Railroad of Long Island merged???

• • Whitestone and Westchester Railroad inc. 1871, merged 1874*
  • North Shore Railroad inc. 1863, merged 1874*
  • North Shore and Port Washington Railroad merged 1874
  • Roslyn and Huntington Railroad inc. 1874, merged 1874

South Side Railroad of Long Island

• South Side Railroad of Long Island inc. 1860, reorg. 1874
  • Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad inc. 1879, merged 1889
    • Southern Railroad of Long Island inc. 1874, reorg. 1879 and 1880
      • • Hunters Point and South Side Railroad inc. 1870, merged 1872
        • Rockaway Railway inc. 1871, merged 1872
    • Far Rockaway Branch Railroad inc. 1868, merged 1882
• New York and Hempstead Railroad inc. 1871
  • Hempstead and Rockaway Railroad merged 1871
  • New York and Hempstead Plains Railroad merged 1871

Branches

• Degnon Terminal Railroad merged 1928???
• Southern Hempstead Branch Railroad unknown,, probably the Southern Hempstead Branch
• Valley Stream Branch Railroad unknown
• New York and Long Island Terminal Railway unknown

Streetcar lines

• Atlantic Avenue Railroad
  • Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway inc. 1866
    • Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad inc. 1860, reorg. 1867??
      • Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad inc. 1832, merged 1860
      • Brooklyn Central Railroad inc. 1859, merged 1860
• Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad inc. 1874
  • Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad merged 1874
  • Park Avenue Railroad merged 1874
• New York and Coney Island Railroad inc. 1879
• Huntington Railroad
• Glen Cove Railroad dissolved 1925
• Nassau County Railway dissolved 1926
• Ocean Electric Railway dissolved 1928
• Long Island Consolidated Electrical Companies (Combined with Interborough Rapid Transit Company)
• Nassau Electric Railroad
• South Brooklyn Railway
• Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad
• Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railway
• Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad
• Prospect Park and Flatbush Railroad
• New York and Coney Island Railroad
• Brooklyn, Bath and West End Railroad
• New York Consolidated Railroad
• Nassau Electric Railroad

Boat lines

• Metropolitan Ferry Company inc. 1887, merged 1892
  • East River Ferry Company inc. 1860, reorg. 1887
• Montauk Steamboat Company dissolved 1929
• Montauk Water Company dissolved 1929

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Long Island Railroad