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)

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