User:NE2/Conrail predecessor subsidiaries

Penn Central Transportation Company

 * Penn Central Transportation Company to Conrail
 * Boston and Providence Railroad merged 1972 (NH)
 * Cherry Tree and Dixonville Railroad merged 1970 (NYC/PRR joint)
 * Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Railway merged 1970 (NYC/PRR joint)
 * New York Central Railroad merged 1968
 * Beech Creek Extension Railroad merged 1961
 * Boston and Albany Railroad merged 1961
 * Federal Valley Railroad merged 1952
 * Fulton Chain Railway merged 1937
 * Genesee Falls Railway merged 1936
 * Lake Erie, Alliance and Wheeling Railroad merged 1952
 * New Jersey Junction Railroad merged 1952
 * New York and Fort Lee Railroad merged 1952
 * Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad merged 1961
 * St. Joseph, South Bend and Southern Railroad conveyed 1943?
 * Toledo and Ohio Central Railway merged 1952
 * Bailey Run, Sugar Creek and Athens Railway merged 1938
 * Kanawha and Michigan Railway merged 1938
 * Point Pleasant Bridge Company conveyed 1935
 * Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad merged 1938
 * Middleport and Northeastern Railway merged 1938
 * Zanesville and Western Railway merged 1938
 * Ulster and Delaware Railroad conveyed 1932
 * Wallkill Valley Railroad merged 1952
 * Ware River Railroad merged 1961
 * West Shore Railroad merged 1952
 * New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad merged 1968
 * Central New England Railway merged 1927
 * Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad merged 1927
 * Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad merged 1947
 * Old Colony Railroad merged 1947
 * Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad merged 1947
 * Pennsylvania Railroad merged 1968
 * Cumberland Valley Railroad merged 1919
 * Johnsonburg Railroad conveyed 1928


 * Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad leased by Conrail
 * Baltimore and Eastern Railroad to Conrail
 * Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway conveyed 1928
 * Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway conveyed 1924
 * Beech Creek Railroad to Conrail
 * Canada Southern Railway leased by Conrail
 * Central Railroad of Indianapolis leased by Conrail
 * Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway to Conrail
 * Chicago River and Indiana Railroad to Conrail
 * Chicago Junction Railway conveyed 1958
 * Union Stock Yards and Transit Company conveyed 1958
 * Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway to Conrail
 * Cincinnati Northern Railroad merged 1938
 * Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad merged 1938
 * Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland Railroad merged 1938
 * Columbus, Hope and Greensburg Railroad merged 1938
 * Evansville, Indianapolis and Terre Haute Railway merged 1938
 * Evansville, Mt. Carmel and Northern Railway merged 1938
 * Muncie Belt Railway merged 1938
 * Saline Valley Railway merged 1917
 * Vernon, Greensburg and Rushville Railroad merged 1938
 * Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad to Conrail
 * Connecting Railway to Conrail
 * Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad merged 1956
 * Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway merged 1926
 * Cleveland, Akron and Cincinnati Railway merged 1926
 * Manufacturers Railway merged 1926
 * Pennsylvania-Detroit Railroad merged 1926
 * Toledo, Columbus and Ohio River Railroad merged 1926
 * Delaware Railroad to Conrail
 * Detroit Manufacturers Railroad to Conrail
 * Detroit River Tunnel Company leased by Conrail
 * Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad to Conrail
 * Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad to Conrail
 * Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad to Conrail
 * Holyoke and Westfield Railroad to Conrail
 * Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany to Conrail
 * Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad to Conrail
 * Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railroad to Conrail
 * Little Miami Railroad to Conrail
 * Columbus and Xenia Railroad merged 1943
 * Dayton and Western Railroad merged 1943
 * Mahoning Coal Railroad to Conrail
 * Mahoning and Shenango Valley Company to Conrail
 * Shenango Valley Railroad merged 1963
 * Stewart Railroad merged 1963
 * Michigan Central Railroad to Conrail
 * Detroit, Hillsdale and South Western Railroad conveyed 1960
 * North Brookfield Railroad to Conrail
 * Northern Central Railway to Conrail
 * Elmira and Lake Ontario Railroad merged 1956
 * Marion Railway merged 1931
 * Norwich and Worcester Railroad to Conrail
 * Penndel Company to Conrail
 * Battle Creek and Sturgis Railway merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
 * Camden and Burlington County Railway merged 1958
 * Cumberland Valley and Martinsburg Railroad merged 1958
 * Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company merged 1954
 * Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee Railroad merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
 * Detroit Union Railroad Depot and Station Company merged 1955
 * Elmira and Williamsport Railroad merged 1969
 * Englewood Connecting Railway merged 1954
 * Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad merged 1958
 * Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway merged 1954
 * Indianapolis and Frankfort Railroad merged 1954
 * Lansing Manufacturers Railroad merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
 * Lansing Transit Railway merged 1969 (NYC subsidiary)
 * Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway conveyed 1954
 * Lykens Valley Railroad and Coal Company merged 1956
 * New Cumberland and Pittsburgh Railway merged 1955
 * New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad merged 1958
 * Ohio Connecting Railway merged 1954
 * Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad merged 1954
 * Ohio River and Western Railway conveyed 1931
 * Rosslyn Connecting Railroad merged 1969
 * South Chicago and Southern Railroad merged 1954
 * Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company merged 1954
 * Terre Haute and Peoria Railroad merged 1957
 * Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway merged 1955
 * Bradford Railroad merged 1932
 * Connecting Terminal Railroad merged 1931
 * Wheeling Coal Railroad merged 1955
 * Wheeling and Eastern Railroad merged 1955
 * Wheeling Terminal Railway merged 1954
 * York, Hanover and Frederick Railway merged 1954
 * Youngstown and Ravenna Railroad merged 1954
 * Zanesville Terminal Railroad merged 1969 (NYC/PRR joint)
 * Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad to Conrail
 * Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad to Conrail
 * Peoria and Eastern Railway to Conrail
 * Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad to Conrail
 * Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad conveyed 1919
 * Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad merged 1956
 * Maryland and Denton Seacoast Railroad conveyed 1935 (Ellendale-Milton; West Denton-Denton went to Baltimore and Eastern Railroad)
 * Maryland and Delaware Coast Railway conveyed 1932
 * Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railway conveyed 1924
 * Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad merged 1956
 * Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad conveyed 1927
 * Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad to Conrail
 * Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway to Conrail
 * Massillon and Cleveland Railroad conveyed 1928
 * Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway to Conrail
 * St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway leased by Conrail
 * Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad to Conrail
 * South Manchester Railroad to Conrail
 * Troy and Greenbush Railroad to Conrail
 * Union Railroad of Baltimore to Conrail
 * United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company to Conrail
 * Belvidere Delaware Railroad merged 1957-58
 * Harrison and East Newark Connecting Railroad merged 1954
 * New York Bay Railroad merged 1956
 * Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad merged 1957-58
 * Rocky Hill Railroad and Transportation Company merged 1957-58
 * Waynesburg Southern Railroad to Conrail
 * Waynesburg and Washington Railroad to Conrail

Erie Lackawanna Railway

 * Erie Lackawanna Railway to Conrail
 * Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged 1960
 * Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad merged 1946
 * Chester Railroad merged 1945
 * Erie and Central New York Railroad merged 1945
 * Greene Railroad merged 1946
 * Hopatcong Railroad merged ca. 1943
 * Lackwanna Railroad of New Jersey merged 1945
 * Lackawanna and Montrose Railroad merged 1928
 * Morris and Essex Railroad merged 1945
 * Morris and Essex Extension Railroad merged 1947
 * New York, Lackawanna and Western Railway merged 1945
 * Newark and Bloomfield Railroad merged 1945
 * Oswego and Syracuse Railroad merged 1945
 * Passaic and Delaware Railroad merged 1945
 * Passaic and Delaware Extension Railroad merged 1947
 * Sussex Railroad merged 1945
 * Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad merged 1945
 * Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway merged 1945
 * Valley Railroad conveyed 1945
 * Warren Railroad merged 1945
 * Erie Railroad merged 1960
 * Arlington Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Bergen County Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Bergen and Dundee Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Buffalo, Bradford and Pittsburgh Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Caldwell Railway conveyed 1943
 * Chicago and Erie Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railway conveyed 1941
 * Columbus and Erie Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Conesus Lake Railroad merged 1932
 * Docks Connecting Railway conveyed 1942
 * Erie and Black Rock Railroad merged 1932
 * Erie Terminals Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Erie and Wyoming Valley Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Goshen and Deckertown Railway conveyed 1954
 * Jefferson Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Long Dock Company conveyed 1942
 * Middletown and Crawford Railroad merged 1932
 * Montgomery and Erie Railway conveyed 1954
 * Moosic Mountain and Carbondale Railroad conveyed 1941
 * New York and Greenwood Lake Railway conveyed 1943
 * New York, Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad Company conveyed 1941
 * Brockport and Shawmut Railroad conveyed 1940
 * New York, Lake Erie and Western Docks and Improvement Company conveyed 1942
 * Newark and Hudson Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Northern Railroad of New Jersey conveyed 1943
 * Nyack and Southern Railroad merged 1944
 * Nypano Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Westerman Coal and Iron Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Paterson and Hudson River Railroad conveyed 1953
 * Paterson, Newark and New York Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Paterson and Ramapo Railroad conveyed 1946
 * Penhorn Creek Railroad conveyed 1942
 * Rayen Terminals Company conveyed 1941
 * Roseland Railway conveyed 1943
 * Sharon Railway conveyed 1953
 * Tioga Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Arnot and Pine Creek Railroad merged 1937
 * Union Railroad merged 1946
 * West Clarion Railroad conveyed 1941
 * Youngstown and Austintown Railway conveyed 1941
 * New Jersey and New York Railroad conveyed 1967
 * New Jersey and New York Extension Railroad merged 1936


 * Hoboken Ferry Company to Conrail
 * Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway to Conrail
 * Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad to Conrail


 * Syracuse and Baldwinsville Railway abandoned?


 * Garnerville Railroad
 * Watchung Railway

Other

 * Allentown Terminal Railroad to Conrail
 * Ann Arbor Railroad to Conrail
 * Menominee and St. Paul Railway merged 1958
 * Bay Shore Connecting Railroad to Conrail
 * Buffalo Creek Railroad to Conrail in 1983
 * Central Indiana Railway to Conrail
 * Central Railroad of New Jersey to Conrail
 * Hibernia Mine Railroad conveyed 1930
 * Wilkes-Barre and Scranton Railway conveyed 1963
 * Central Railroad of Pennsylvania to Conrail
 * Easton and Western Railroad renamed 1944
 * Dayton Union Railway to Conrail
 * Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad to Conrail
 * Dover and Rockaway Railroad to Conrail
 * East Pennsylvania Railroad to Conrail
 * Indianapolis Union Railway to Conrail
 * Ironton Railroad to Conrail
 * Lehigh and Hudson River Railway to Conrail
 * Lehigh and New England Railway to Conrail
 * Lehigh and New England Railroad conveyed 1961
 * Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad leased by Conrail
 * Lehigh Valley Railroad to Conrail
 * Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad merged 1949
 * Easton and Northern Railroad merged 1949
 * Lehigh and New York Railroad merged 1949
 * Lehigh Valley Railroad of New Jersey merged 1949
 * Lehigh Valley Railway merged 1949
 * Lehigh Valley Harbor Terminal Railway merged 1949
 * Loyalsock Railroad merged 1949
 * Montrose Railroad merged 1949
 * Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company merged 1949
 * Schuylkill and Lehigh Valley Railroad merged 1949
 * State Line and Sullivan Railroad merged 1949
 * Mount Hope Mineral Railroad to Conrail
 * New York Connecting Railroad to Conrail
 * New York and Long Branch Railroad to Conrail
 * Niagara Junction Railway to Conrail
 * North Pennsylvania Railroad to Conrail
 * Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines to Conrail
 * Atlantic City Railroad renamed 1933
 * Stone Harbor Railroad merged 1936
 * Wildwood and Delaware Bay Short Line Railroad merged 1935
 * Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad to Conrail
 * Plymouth Railroad to Conrail
 * Port Reading Railroad to Conrail
 * Raritan River Railroad to Conrail in 1980
 * Reading Company to Conrail
 * Allentown Railroad merged 1945
 * Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad conveyed 1928
 * Catasauqua and Fogelsville Railroad merged 1944
 * Catawissa Railroad merged 1953
 * Chester and Delaware River Railroad merged 1923
 * Chestnut Hill Railroad merged 1948
 * Colebrookdale Railroad merged 1945
 * East Mahanoy Railroad merged 1951
 * Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway merged 1945
 * Little Schuylkill Navigation, Railroad and Coal Company merged 1952
 * Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad merged 1923
 * Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad merged 1951
 * Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Railroad Company merged 1950
 * Mount Carbon and Port Carbon Railroad merged 1949
 * New York Short Line Railroad merged 1923
 * Norristown and Main Line Connecting Railroad merged 1923
 * Norristown Junction Railroad merged 1923
 * North East Pennsylvania Railroad merged 1945
 * Peoples Railway merged 1945
 * Perkiomen Railroad merged 1945
 * Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad merged 1945
 * Philadelphia and Frankford Railroad merged 1923
 * Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad merged 1923
 * Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad merged 1945
 * Philadelphia and Reading Railway merged 1923
 * Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad merged 1944
 * Pickering Valley Railroad merged 1945
 * Reading Belt Railroad merged 1923
 * Reading and Columbia Railroad merged 1945
 * Rupert and Bloomsburg Railroad merged 1923
 * Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad merged 1923
 * Schuylkill Valley Navigation and Railroad Company merged 1950
 * Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad merged 1923
 * Stony Creek Railroad merged 1945
 * Tamaqua, Hazleton and Northern Railroad merged 1923
 * Williams Valley Railroad merged 1947
 * Trenton-Princeton Traction Company to Conrail
 * Union Depot Company (Columbus, Ohio) to Conrail
 * West Jersey and Seashore Railroad to Conrail
 * Wharton and Northern Railroad to Conrail
 * Wilmington and Northern Railroad to Conrail


 * Hayts Corners, Ovid and Willard Railroad
 * Lehigh – Buffalo Terminal Railway
 * Raritan Terminal and Transportation Company


 * Beaver Meadow, Tresckow and New Boston Railroad
 * East Trenton Railroad
 * Mount Carmel Railroad
 * Schuylkill Bridge at Swedes Ford


 * Pochuck Railroad


 * Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railway


 * Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
 * Nesquehoning Valley Railroad merged 1963
 * Tresckow Railroad merged 1963


 * Lehigh Valley Transportation Company
 * Philadelphia and Reading Belt Line Railroad

Abandoned or split out
This list doesn't include all subsidiaries.
 * Avon, Geneseo and Mount Morris Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1940
 * Bath and Hammondsport Railroad (Erie) closed 1935, sold 1936
 * Barnegat Railroad abandoned 1923
 * Boston Terminal Company (NH) sold to Boston Redevelopment Authority 1965
 * Canada Southern Bridge Company (NYC) abandoned
 * Caton and Loudon Railway (PRR) lease terminated 1972, abandonment authorized 1973
 * Catonsville Short Line Railroad conveyed 1945
 * Chatham Railroad (NH) lease terminated 1936, abandonment authorized 1937
 * Chester and Becket Railroad (NYC) abandonment authorized 1931
 * Elmira State Line Railroad (Erie) abandoned ca. 1942
 * Eriton Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1933
 * Findlay Belt Railway (NYC) abandoned
 * Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad (NYC)
 * Campbell Hall Connecting Railroad (L&NE) abandoned 1961
 * Long Island Rail Road (PRR)
 * Glendale and East River Railroad merged 1928
 * Long Island Rail Road North Shore Branch merged 1921
 * New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway merged 1925
 * New York and Rockaway Beach Railway merged 1921
 * Lorain, Ashland and Southern Railroad abandoned 1925
 * Mahoning State Line Railroad (NYC)
 * Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad (AA) abandoned 1968
 * Mt. Gilead Short Line Railway (NYC) abandoned ca. 1965
 * New York and Harlem Railroad (NYC)
 * New York, Ontario and Western Railway (NH)
 * New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (Erie)
 * Ogden Mine Railroad (CNJ) abandoned 1941
 * Ottawa and New York Railway (NYC)
 * Philadelphia and Beach Haven Railroad closed 1935, abandonment authorized 1936
 * Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company abandoned 1952
 * Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (NYC)
 * Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad merged 1965
 * Providence, Webster and Springfield Railroad (NYC) abandoned ca. 1958 (except for a short piece to the NH)
 * Providence and Worcester Railroad (NH) lease terminated 1973
 * Raquette Lake Railway (NYC) abandoned 1933
 * Reading, Marietta and Hanover Railroad (RDG) abandoned 1930
 * Rutland Railroad (NH/NYC)
 * St. Clair and Western Railroad (NYC) abandoned
 * Susquehanna Connecting Railroad
 * Tipton Railroad (PRR) abandoned in 1920s
 * Union Freight Railroad sold to Boston Redevelopment Authority 1969
 * Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad (Erie) abandoned 1940
 * Wood River Branch Railroad (NH) abandoned
 * Youghiogheny Northern Railway (NYC) abandoned