List of New York railroads
The following railroads currently or formerly operated in the U.S. state of New York.
Current and former railroads in New York
Common freight carriers
- Albany Port Railroad (APD) (Port of Albany)
- Arcade and Attica Railroad (ARA)
- B&H Rail Corporation (BH) (Owned by Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad)
- Batten Kill Railroad (BKRR)
- Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) (Genesee and Wyoming)
- Buffalo Southern Railroad (BSOR)
- Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) including subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Railway (DH)
- Central New York Railroad (CNYK) (Operated by New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway)
- Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad (CLP) (Owned by Vermont Railway)
- Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) operates Staten Island Railroad (SIRR) (Jointly Owned by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT)
- Depew, Lancaster and Western Railroad (DLWR) (Genesee Valley Transportation)
- Falls Road Railroad (FRR) (Genesee Valley Transportation)
- Finger Lakes Railway (FGLK)
- Frontier Rail (FRRX)
- Housatonic Railroad (HRRC)
- Ithaca Central Railroad (ITHR) (Watco Companies)
- Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad (LAL)
- Lowville and Beaver River Railroad (LBR) (Out of Service)
- Massena Terminal Railroad (MSTR) (Genesee and Wyoming Railroad)
- Middletown and New Jersey Railroad (MNJ) (Regional Rail)
- Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad (MHWA) (Genesee Valley Transportation)
- New York and Atlantic Railway (NYA) (Anacostia Rail Holdings)
- New York and Lake Erie Railroad (NYLE)
- New York New Jersey Rail, LLC (NYNJ)
- New York and Ogdensburg Railway (NYOG) (Owned by Vermont Railway)
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Ontario Central Railroad (ONCT) (Operated by Finger Lakes Railway)
- Ontario Midland Railroad (OMID)
- Owego and Harford Railway (OHRY)
- Providence and Worcester Railroad (PW) (Genesee and Wyoming)
- Rochester and Southern Railroad (RSR) (Genesee and Wyoming)
- Saratoga and North Creek Railway (SNC) (Out of Service) (OmniTrax)
- SMS Rail Lines of New York (SNY) (Owned by SMS Rail Lines)
- Somerset Railroad (SOM) (Operated by CSX Transportation)
- South Buffalo Railway (SB)
- Pan Am Railways (PAR)
- Pan Am Southern (PAS) (Operated by Pan Am Railways)
- Vermont Railway (VTR)
- Wellsboro and Corning Railroad (WCOR) (Genesee and Wyoming)
- Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad (WNYP) (Owned by Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad)
Private carriers
- Kodak Park Railroad (Operated by Rochester Switching Services)
- Global Container Terminals New York
- South Brooklyn Railway (SBK)
Passenger carriers
- Amtrak (AMTK) (high-speed rail, intercity rail, and long-distance rail)
Commuter rail
- Long Island Rail Road (LI) (commuter rail)
- Metro-North Railroad (MNCW) (commuter rail)
- New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJTR) (commuter rail)
Rapid transit
- AirTrain JFK (people mover)
- Buffalo Metro Rail (light rail metro)
- New York City Subway (rapid transit/heavy rail)
- Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) (rapid transit/heavy rail)
- Staten Island Railway (SIR) (heavy rail/commuter rail/rapid transit)
Heritage railroad
- Adirondack Scenic Railroad (ADIX) (tourist railway/ heritage railroad)
- Arcade and Attica Railroad (ARA) (seasonally runs tourist trains; mostly a freight carrier)
- Catskill Mountain Railroad (CMRR) (heritage railroad)
- Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley Railroad (CACV) (heritage railroad)
- Delaware and Ulster Railroad (DURR) (heritage railroad)
- Medina Railroad Museum (heritage railroad)
- New York Museum of Transportation (heritage railroad)
- Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum (RGVM) (operating railroad museum)
- Saratoga and North Creek Railroad (tourist railway/ heritage railroad)
- Tioga Central Railroad (heritage railroad)
- Trolley Museum of New York (heritage light rail)
- Upper Hudson River Railroad (heritage railroad)
Defunct railroads
Street and electric railways
- Adirondack Lakes' Traction Company
- Albany and Hudson Railroad
- Albany and Hudson Railway and Power Company
- Albany Southern Railroad
- Amsterdam Street Railroad
- Atlantic Avenue Railroad
- Auburn and Northern Electric Railroad
- Auburn and Syracuse Electric Railroad
- Babylon Railroad
- Ballston Terminal Railroad
- Batavia Traction Company
- Belt Line Railway
- Bennington and North Adams Street Railway
- Berkshire Street Railway
- Binghamton Railway
- Black River Traction Company
- Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
- Bridge Operating Company
- Broadway Railroad
- Broadway Railway
- Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad
- Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
- Bronx Traction Company
- Brooklyn Central Railroad
- Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad
- Brooklyn City Railroad
- Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad
- Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad
- Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
- Brooklyn Elevated Railway
- Brooklyn Elevated Silent Safety Railway
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad
- Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway
- Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
- Brooklyn and North River Railroad
- Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
- Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
- Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad
- Buffalo City Railway
- Buffalo and Depew Railway
- Buffalo and Erie Railway
- Buffalo and Lake Erie Traction Company
- Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway
- Buffalo Southern Railway
- Buffalo and Williamsville Electric Railway
- Bush Terminal Railroad
- Bushwick Railroad
- Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad
- Canarsie Railroad
- Catskill Electric Railway
- Cayadutta Electric Railroad
- Cedarhurst Railway
- Central City Rail Way
- Central Crosstown Railroad
- Central Park, North and East River Railroad
- Chautauqua Traction Company
- Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
- City Island Railroad
- Cohoes Railway
- Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
- Coney Island Elevated Railway
- Coney Island, Fort Hamilton and Brooklyn Railroad
- Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
- Corning and Painted Post Street Railway
- Cortland County Traction Company
- Crosstown Street Railway of Buffalo
- DeKalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad
- DeKalb Avenue and North Brooklyn Railroad
- Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
- East River and Atlantic Ocean Railroad
- Eastern New York Railroad
- Echo Line Railroad
- Eighth Avenue Railroad
- Electric City Railway
- Elmira, Corning and Waverly Railway
- Elmira and Seneca Lake Traction Company
- Elmira Water, Light and Railroad Company
- Empire State Railroad
- Far Rockaway Railroad
- Fishkill Electric Railway
- Flushing and College Point Electric Railway
- Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad
- Fort George and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
- Fort George Extension Railway
- Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
- Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway
- Freeport Railroad
- Fulton Street Railroad
- Geneva, Seneca Falls and Auburn Railroad
- Geneva, Waterloo, Seneca Falls and Cayuga Lake Traction Company
- Gilbert Elevated Railway
- Glen Cove Railroad
- Gloversville Street Electric Railroad
- Grand Street and Newtown Railroad
- Great South Bay Ferry Company
- Greenbush and Nassau Electric Railway
- Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad
- Greenwood and Coney Island Railroad
- Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham Railway
- Hornell Traction Company
- Hornellsville and Canisteo Railway
- Hornellsville Electric Railway
- Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
- Hudson Light and Power and Railroad Company
- Hudson and Manhattan Railroad
- Hudson River and Eastern Traction Company
- Hudson Street Railway
- Hudson Tunnel Railway
- Hudson Valley Railway
- Huntington Railroad
- Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad
- Interborough Rapid Transit Company
- International Railway
- Ithaca Street Railway
- Ithaca Traction Corporation
- Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad
- Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company
- Jamaica Central Railways
- Jamestown Street Railway
- Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern Railroad
- Jerome Park Railway
- Johnstown, Gloversville and Kingsboro Horse Railroad
- Kaydeross Railroad
- Keeseville, Ausable Chasm and Lake Champlain Railroad
- Kings County Electric Railway
- Kings County Elevated Railway
- Kingsbridge Railway
- Kingston Consolidated Railroad
- Long Beach Marine Railway
- Long Island City and Newtown Railroad
- Long Island Electric Railway
- Long Island Traction Company
- Manhattan Railway
- Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line
- Manhattan and Queens Traction Company
- Manhattan and Queens Traction Corporation
- Marine Railway
- Melrose and West Morrisania Railroad
- Metropolitan Crosstown Railway
- Metropolitan Elevated Railway
- Metropolitan Street Railway
- Mid-Crosstown Railway
- Mineola, Hempstead and Freeport Traction Company
- Mineola, Roslyn and Port Washington Traction Company
- Mount Beacon-on-Hudson Association
- Mount Vernon and Eastchester Railway
- Nassau Railroad
- Nassau County Railway
- Nassau Electric Railroad
- New Paltz, Highland and Poughkeepsie Traction Company
- New Rochelle Railway and Transit Company
- New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad
- New York Railways
- New York, Auburn and Lansing Railroad
- New York City Railway
- New York City Interborough Railway
- New York and Coney Island Railroad
- New York Consolidated Railroad
- New York Elevated Railroad
- New York, Fordham and Bronx Railway
- New York and Harlem Railroad
- New York and Jersey Railroad
- New York and Long Island Traction Company
- New York Municipal Railway
- New York and North Shore Railway
- New York and North Shore Traction Company
- New York and Queens County Railway
- New York and Stamford Railway
- New York State Railways
- New York, Westchester and Boston Railway (NW&B)
- New York, Westchester and Connecticut Traction Company
- Newark and Marion Railway
- Newtown Railway
- Niagara Gorge Railroad
- Niagara Junction Railway
- Ninth Avenue Railroad
- North and East River Railway
- North End Street Railway
- North Third Avenue and Fleetwood Park Railroad
- Northport Traction Company
- Ocean Electric Railway
- Ogdensburg Street Railway
- One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street Crosstown Railroad
- Oneida Railway
- Oneonta and Mohawk Valley Railroad
- Orange County Traction Company
- Park Avenue Railroad
- Paul Smith's Electric Light and Power and Railroad Company
- Peekskill Lighting and Railroad Company
- Pelham Park Railroad
- Pelham Park and City Island Railway
- Penn Yan, Keuka Park and Branchport Railway
- Penn Yan and Lake Shore Railway
- Plattsburgh Traction Company
- Port Jervis Electric Light, Power, Gas and Railroad Company
- Port Jervis Traction Company
- Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers Falls Electric Railway
- Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls Railway
- Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad
- Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad
- Putnam and Westchester Traction Company
- Queens Railway
- Queensboro Bridge Railway Company
- Richmond County Railroad
- Richmond Light and Railroad Company
- Richmond Street Railway
- Rochester Railway Company
- Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway
- Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad
- Rochester and Manitou Railroad
- Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway
- Rochester and Suburban Railway
- Rochester Subway (RSB)
- Rochester and Syracuse Railroad
- Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railroad
- Rockaway Village Railroad
- St. Lawrence International Electric Railroad and Land Company
- Schenectady Railway
- Sea Beach Railway
- Sea View Railroad
- Seashore Municipal Railroad
- Second Avenue Railroad
- Sixth Avenue Railroad
- Soundview Transportation Company
- South Brooklyn Street Railroad
- South Ferry Railroad
- South Shore Traction Company
- Southern Boulevard Railroad
- Southern New York Railway
- Southern New York Power and Railway Corporation
- Southfield Beach Railroad
- Staten Island Electric Railroad
- Staten Island Horse Railroad
- Staten Island Midland Railroad
- Staten Island Midland Railway
- Staten Island Traction Company
- Suburban Rapid Transit Company
- Suburban Traction Company
- Suffolk Traction Company
- Syracuse, Lake Shore and Northern Railroad
- Syracuse Northern Electric Railway
- Syracuse Rapid Transit Railway
- Syracuse and South Bay Electric Railroad
- Syracuse and Suburban Railroad
- Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway
- Third Avenue Railroad
- Third Avenue Railway
- Third Avenue Bridge Company
- Thirty-fourth Street Railroad
- Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway
- Thirty-fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad
- Troy and New England Railway
- Twenty-eighth and Thirtieth Streets Crosstown Railroad
- Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad
- Twenty-third Street Railway
- Union Railroad
- Union Railway of New York City
- United Railroad
- United Traction Company
- Utica Belt Line Street Railroad
- Utica and Mohawk Valley Railway
- Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad
- Van Nest, West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
- Wakefield and Westchester Traction Company
- Wallkill Transit Company
- Warren and Jamestown Street Railway
- Washington Street and State Asylum Railroad
- Waverly, Sayre and Athens Traction Company
- West Farms and Westchester Traction Company
- West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway
- Westchester Electric Railroad
- Westchester Street Railroad
- Western New York and Pennsylvania Traction Company
- Williamsbridge and Westchester Traction Company
- Yonkers Railroad
- Other passenger carriers
- Private carriers
- Crown Point Iron Company's Railroad
- Fulton Chain Railroad
- Marion River Carry Railroad
- Peekskill Iron Company
- Not completed
Notes
- This is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.
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