Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/February 24

Map of Delaware and Hudson Canal Company in 1886

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.[1]
1896 – Erie Railroad purchases the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.[2]
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.[3]

References

"Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages. August 16, 2005. Retrieved December 28, 2005.
"Erie Railroad - History". Western New York Railroad Archive. December 17, 2005. Retrieved December 28, 2005.
New York Central Railroad System (1913). "History of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company". Annual Report. Retrieved December 28, 2005.

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