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