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	New York Central Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Utica and Schenectady Railroad was chartered April 29, 1833; as the railroad paralleled the Erie Canal it was prohibited from carrying freight.
		It was leased to the New York Central in 1853 and merged in 1855.
		The Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad was chartered in 1864 and opened in 1866 as a branch of the New York Central from Athens Junction, southeast of Schenectady, southeast and south to Athens on the west side of the Hudson River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Central_Railroad (2962 words)

	List of New York Central Railroad precursors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These railroads were bought, leased, or in other ways had their track come under ownership or lease by the New York Central Railroad.
		The New York Central Railroad later merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad to form Penn Central.
		The NYCRR owned stock in the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and the Lake Erie and Western Railroad, but sold it in July 1917 and April 1922, respectively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_New_York_Central_Railroad_precursors (294 words)

	RAILROAD.NET - New York Central's 1934 West Side Improvement
		This West Side line is known as the "Life Line of New York." inasmuch as the city, to a considerable extent, depends on the transportation afforded by this line for its food and milk, and for merchandise, express and varied commodities.
		The elimination of railroad grade crossings at 105 streets, including the railroad's longitudinal occupation of several important north and south thoroughfares, freeing these avenues and streets from the congestion, hazards and traffic delays that were inevitable with train operation on the surface of the streets.
		The "West Side Line" of the New York Central is about 13 miles in length and extends from a junction with the Main Line at Spuyten Duyvil southerly to the new St. John's Park Freight Station, one of the largest freight stations in the country.
	railroad.net /articles/railfanning/westside/index.php (3198 words)

	Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt of the New York Central Railroad
		Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt of the New York Central Railroad
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Staten Island, New York in 1794.
		The first property he acquired was the New York and Harlem.
	nycsrr.8m.com /vanderbilt.htm (773 words)

	Railroad History
		Harmon was a New York Central-created community and came into existence because it was a logical point to be the outer limit of the electric zone.
		The New Jersey Junction Railroad owned a railroad, connecting the CSX River Division (former West Shore Railroad) with the trunk lines terminating at and near Jersey City, extending from Weehawken to a junction with the former Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, and a branch to a junction with same road near Harsimus Cove.
		Railroad connections in Oneonta with the New York Central and the Delaware and Hudson.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad (5007 words)

	Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The railroad is operated point-to-point, with 4 mainline cabs in the center of the 57ft.
		Centralized Train Control (CTC) is coordinated from a booth with a control panel that is built into the old trackside bay window of the station.
		The locomotives of the Finger Lakes railroad are painted in the traditional Lightning Stripe scheme of the New York Central with the only difference being the lettering for Finger Lakes Railroad instead of New York Central and of course these locomotives are a little bit more modern than the diesels of the old NYC.
	members.aol.com /cnyclub/homepage.html (410 words)

	Railhistory
		Both railroad lines were acquired by Commodore Vanderbilt in the 1870's and became part of the rail baron's empire stretching from New York City to Chicago and St. Louis.
		The northern portion of the New York and Harlem Railroad became the Harlem Division of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, later shortened to New York Central Railroad.
		This new railroad was an operational and financial disaster and was soon bankrupt.
	www.hvrt.org /railhistory.html (778 words)

	New York Central Railroad Company - Cornelius Vanderbilt Vignette
		Vanderbilt acquired the Central Railroad in 1867, merged it with the Hudson River Railroad by legislative act, and leased the Harlem to the new company.
		When the panic of 1873 was at its worst, he announced that the New York Central was paying out millions of dividends as usual, and let contracts for the building of the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, with four tracks leading from it, giving employment to thousands of men.
		His only unsolicited contributions were $50,000 for the Church of the Strangers in New York City and $1 million to Central University, which then became Vanderbilt University.
	www.scripophily.net /nycentralblue.html (1778 words)

	NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		New York Central Railroad, usually as quiet as a tombstone, was the liveliest stock on the Big Board.
		Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, in the midst of a fight for control of the New York Central, last week got something close to a toe hold on control of another road, the $797 million Missouri Pacific Railroad.
		The Central, said Young, was now in good enough shape to pay a regular quarterly dividend for the first time since 1931 and he planned to recommend the first payment to the directors at their January meeting.
	members.aol.com /airlineyard/robertyoungsquest.html (15389 words)

	NMAH: New York Central Railroad Baggage Check
		Railroads moved many emigrants from these ports to western lands.
		There were many things to confuse the new immigrant on arrival in America.
		Railway travel might have been a new experience to the poorest newcomers, but even those who had experienced European trains were surprised that personal baggage up to 150 lbs.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=144 (159 words)

	National New York Central Railroad Museum - Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This area introduces a timeline to the local railroad history beginning in 1833 with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern RR, and tracing it through 1914, when the New York Central gained control of the LSMS.
		The new O'gauge train layout is housed in an adjacent room and is open to the public year round.
		The 4085 as she was during Penn Central.
	www.nycrrmuseum.org /tour.html (535 words)

	New York Central Railroad
		Sharing the “Water Level Route” with the New York Central was the West Shore; first as a competitor; later a subsidiary.
		The Penn Central was born amid great expectations and promises on February 1,1968 by the merger of the New York Central System into the Pennsylvania Railroad on that date.
		In the 1920's, one of the biggest projects of the NY Central of this era was the Castleton Cutoff which would replace the grades and drawbridge at Albany with a high-level river crossing several miles south of Albany.
	www.geocities.com /k_kinlock/new_york_central.htm (838 words)

	New York Central Home Page
		The New York Central Railroad Company was a corporation of the State of New York, having its principal office at 575 Broadway, in the City of Albany, State of New York.
		Buildings in the vicinity of Grand Central Terminal were owned by the New York State Realty and Terminal Company headquartered at 466 Lexington Avenue.
		The New York Central System's fleet of class H (2-8-2 type) locomotives was built in the 1910s and 1920s for main line freight service, but most were soon supplanted in that role by the Mohawks (4-8-2 type) and, on the Boston & Albany, the Berkshires (2-8-4 type).
	www.lakemirabel.com /NewYorkCentralHome.html (930 words)

	The Hudson River and Hudson River Railroad--New York Central Railroad Hudson Division
		NEW YORK is the largest, most wealthy, most flourishing of American cities; the great commercial emporium of the United States, and one of the greatest in the world.
		New York is connected with the neighboring cities and villages by a great number of ferries, on some of which boats run the entire night.
		The Philadelphia Railroad station, the dock for the Cunard steamers, and the Paterson Railroad station, are in Jersey City.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/abnyh.Html (17328 words)

	Supreme Court upholds worker's compensation laws - New York Central Railroad v. White, 243 U.S. 188, 37 S.Ct. 247, 61 ...
		According to the record, he was a night watchman, charged with the duty of guarding tools and materials intended to be used in the construction of a new station and new tracks upon a line of interstate railroad.
		Of course, we cannot ignore the question whether the new arrangement is arbitrary and unreasonable, from the standpoint of natural justice.
		No question is made but that the terms imposed upon this railroad company were reasonable in view of the magnitude of its operations, the number of its employees, and the amount of its payroll (about $50,000,000 annually); hence no criticism of the practical effect of the third clause is suggested.
	biotech.law.lsu.edu /cases/adlaw/nycrc_v_white.htm (3516 words)

	Welcome to the National New York Central Railroad Museum Homepage!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the center of it all was the New York Central Railroad.
		Elkhart's National New York Central RR Museum recaptures the days when locomotives were symbols of progress, and ambassadors of goodwill across the country.
		The Museum was founded in 1987 and is an ever growing preserver of both local and national railroad heritage.
	www.nycrrmuseum.org (191 words)

	Wired New York Forum - The float bridges of the New York Central Railroad
		The float bridges that once lined the Port of New York were designed to transfer freight cars from waterside rail yards to barges called car floats, on which they were taken out to ships or to rail lines in New Jersey that connected with the rest of the country.
		Now that a renovation is scheduled for the railroad, some of those artists and architects are focusing on another relic of the city's industrial past.
		In a city where utility is so highly prized, they were beautiful for their crumbling uselessness, their stark contrast to the shining new complex rising nearby, and the fact that they had managed to survive demolition in this constantly self-regenerating metropolis.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=2890 (1387 words)

	JeffPo's New York Central Lantern Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The New York Central Railroad was founded in 1853 by a merger of ten railroads.
		Headquartered in New York, it served a large portion of the area with extensive tracks in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, and New England.
		The New York Central was known as a “water level route”, which meant most of its routes followed rivers and didn’t have significant grade.
	www.mindspring.com /~jeffpo/newyorkcentralblue.htm (281 words)

	Central Terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was built by the New York Central Railroad (NYC) at the zenith of American railroading.
		In a railroad structure, this motif was strikingly executed in the influential Helsinki Central Station by Eliel Saarinen, completed in 1914.
		Today the Central Terminal is quiet, still on the main line, but two and a half miles from downtown.
	preserve.bfn.org /bam/bflobest/central/central.html (886 words)

	OldNYC.com - Examining NYC's Transportation Infrastructure
		The Cross Harbor Railroad is an active freight railroad, and the railroad is unique in that it is one of the few railroads that continues to operate on New York City's surface streets.
		During this time, New York City's powerful arterial coordinator Robert Moses was in the mist of completing several highway projects, and he had several highway projects on the drawing board.
		Much like the freight railroad system that once served New York City, the ship industry experienced a massive decline after the Interstate Highway system was built, as industry utilized trucks to transport their goods and raw materials.
	www.oldnyc.com (2221 words)

	New York Central Railroad
		This was what was nice about living with a railroad in your back yard.
		Some wonderful photographs of the New York Central Xplorer train sent in to me by George Campbell, taken by his father back in 1956 in and around Columbus:
		New York Central wreck Brookfield, Ohio, around July 1, 1947.
	ohiorr.railfan.net /nyc.html (1400 words)

	Formation of the New York Central Railroad
		he scattered railroads that operated between Albany and Buffalo during the 1840's recognized early enough that there was more to be gained by coordination, than by competition.
		The factors behind these railroads, notably Corning and Richmond, knew each others and met many times for cooperation issues prior to discuss the actual consolidation.
		Several attempts to unite the various railroads in one system failed due to the New York State legislature refusing to allow such a merger, doubtlessly under the still dominant influence of the Erie Canal league
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/railroad_barons/new_york_central2.asp (139 words)

	New York Central Railroad Company 92 Year Bond 1921 - Grand Central Station Vignette - 50 Coupons
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of New York City's Grand Central Station.
		The bond was due in 2013 and was payable in Gold Coin.
		In 1864, Cornelius Vanderbilt acquired the New York and Harlem Railroad.
	www.scripophily.net /newyorcenrai3.html (621 words)

	New York Central Railroad J3 class 4-6-4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name 'Hudson' was not only given to the famous river that flows through New York State, it also described a group of steam locomotives incorporating the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement.
		It was the New York Central however, that provided the definitive example.
		They were literally built in their hundreds and progressed through various modifications until the final batch of ten classically streamlined 'J3a's' were delivered in 1938.
	www.steamtrainartist.com /text_steam_train_PL1060.html (164 words)

	New York Central Historical Society Home
		The quarterly issue of the New York Central System Historical Society Headlight is the newsletter of the society.
		Become a member of the New York Central System Historical Society and these and many other benefits will be yours!
		The New York Central System Historical Society does not have any ex-New York Central Railroad or it's subsidiary personnel records in its archives.
	www.nycshs.org (276 words)

	Welcome to the New York Central 3
		Of the thousands of inspired comments concerning private railroad car travel, famous actress and playwright Eleanor Robson (Mrs.
		Come ride aboard New York Central 3, built for Harold Sterling Vanderbilt almost 75 years ago, but maintained to Vanderbilt standards of excellence and certified for 110 miles per hour on passenger trains in the U. and Canada.
		With service equal to its pedigree, there is no finer way to see this grand continent or to explore the diverse cities which mark the Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada Routes.
	www.nyc-3.com (260 words)

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