User:DanTD/Sandbox/List of streetcar lines in Westchester County, New York

The following streetcar lines once operated in Westchester County, New York. Many systems in Westchester eventually came under control of either the Third Avenue Railway, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, or the Connecticut Company-owned New York and Stamford Railway.

The data from here should be used to replace the existing List of streetcar lines in Westchester County, New York.

New York and Stamford Railway
New York and Stamford Railway was owned by the Connecticut Company, an affiliate of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and was established in 1901 through the merger of the trolleys in Port Chester with the 1888 established Larchmont Horse Railway Company and the 1898 established Port Chester Street Railway. In 1904, the NY&S was merged with the Fairfield County, Connecticut-based Greenwich Tramway and Stamford Street Railroad.

Trolleys ran until 1927, when they were replaced by buses of the County Transportation Company, but the NY&S ownership continued until 1965. The bus company survived until 1978.

Ossining Street Railway/Ossining Electric Railway
The Ossining Street Railway Company was established in 1892, and reorganized a year later as the Ossining Electric Railway. By 1902 it was bought by the Westchester Traction Company, which itself became the Hudson River and Eastern Traction Company between 1906 and 1910. Streetcars were abandoned in 1926.

Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company
The Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company was established in 1900 as the successor to the Peekskill Traction Company, which only existed between 1898 and 1900. The company discontinued streetcars on June 30 1926, and the routes were replaced between 1929 and 1978 by the Peekskill Motor Bus Corporation.

Putnam and Westchester Traction Company
Putnam and Westchester Traction Company was based in Peekskill, New York, serving as a subsidiary of the Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company.

West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
The West Farms and Westchester Traction Company served the Bronx and Westchester County, until it was acquired by the Bronx Traction Company, and eventually by the Union Railway of the Bronx

Westchester Electric Railroad
Westchester Electric Railroad operated in and around Mount Vernon. It originated as two horsecar companies. The first being the New Rochelle Railway and Transit Company, which was established in 1865, and the second being the Mount Vernon and East Chester Railway Company which was established in 1887. In 1893 the two companies merged to form the 1893-1896 - Westchester Electric Railway Company. In 1898, the company was acquired by the Union Railway Company of New York, which itself was purchased two years later by the Third Avenue Railroad Company and was reorganized in 1910 as the Third Avenue Railway Company. In 1942 WERy was transferred to an affiliate known as the Third Avenue Transit Corporation, which discontinued streetcars in 1950. The buses were bought by Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1956 and established as the Westchester Street Transportation Company only to be bought out by Liberty Lines Transit, in 1969 and phased out by 1978.

Route A (Main Street-New Rochelle) and Route B (Mount Vernon Railroad Station-229th Sreet) were the busiest lines and remained in operation until December 17, 1950.

Westchester Street Railroad
The Westchester Street Railroad operated in and around White Plains. It originated as the New York, Elmsford and White Plains Railroad Company in 1894, and then incorporated it into the Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway Company in 1898. Third Avenue Railroad acquired the company in 1900 and renamed it as the Westchester Street Railroad Company in 1909. In 1926, it was named the Westchester Street Transportation Company in order to include buses, which replaced all trolleys in 1929. Westchester Street Transportation became part of Mount Vernon's Third Avenue Transit Company in 1942.

Yonkers Railroad
The Yonkers Railroad was commissioned by the City of Yonkers in 1886, to build a trolley line along Main Street within the city. Soon it expanded throughout the city and added lines leading to the Bronx and Mount Vernon before becoming electrified in 1890. In 1900, it was acquired by Third Avenue Railway. Trolleys were eliminated by November 1952, but the company survived as the city's bus company. It was acquired by Liberty Lines Transit in 1972.

The following lines operated in Yonkers, New York:


 * Line 1 (Broadway-Warburton Ave.) ran from a connection with the New York City Subway at 242ns Street and Broadway, through Getty Square, and north onto Warburton Avenue to the city limits.
 * Line 2 (Broadway-Park Ave.) also ran north from 242nd Street to Getty Square, then turned to serve the steep hills of Palisades and Park avenues.
 * Line 3 ran from the New York Central Railroad Hudson Division station at the foot of Main Street to the subway connection at 242nd Street.
 * Line 4 (McLean Ave.) ran from the foot of Main Street along Broadway and McLean Avenue down to a connection with the Jerome Avenue Subway near Woodlawn Cemetery.
 * Line 5 (Nepperhan Ave.) ran from the foot of Main Street through Getty Square to Palisade Avenue. At Elm is split from Line 2 to run as a single track down Nepperhan Avenue to Tomkins Avenue.
 * Line 6 (Tuckahoe Rd.) ran along Saw Mill Road terminating at the New York Central's Putnam Division station at Nepperhan.
 * Line 7 (Yonkers Ave.) ran east from downtown along Yonkers Avenue and terminated at the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad station in Mount Vernon.
 * Line 8 (Riverdale Ave.) was a shuttle operation terminating at Main Street.
 * Line 9 (Elm-Walnut) originated at the foot of Main Street, ran through Getty Square, and turned back on Elm and Walnut streets