Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 24


 * February 24


 * 1870 – Delaware and Hudson Canal Company (1886 map pictured) leases the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, which extended from Albany to Binghamton, New York.
 * 1888 – Grand Trunk Railway acquires the Northern and Northwestern Railway.
 * 1896 – Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.
 * 1910 – The Cleveland Short Line Railway, a subsidiary of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, opens its first 9.73-mile (15.66 km) section of track from Rockport to Marcy, Ohio, and a junction with the Lake Erie and Pittsburg Railway.