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Rhinebeck And Connecticut Railroad
The Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad was chartered on June 29, 1870 for the purpose of building a railroad from Rhinecliff on the Hudson River east to the Connecticut state line. Construction started on the line in 1872. The following is a list of the owners and lessees of the line. * 1882 - Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad * 1889 - Central New England and Western Railroad * 1892 - Philadelphia, Reading and New England Railroad * 1899 - Central New England Railway * 1927 - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of ... Passenger service between Copake and State Line ended in 1927, between Silvernails and Rhinecliff in 1928, and between Copake and Silvernails in 1933. Station listing References External linksRhinebeck an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhinecliff, NY
Rhinecliff is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located along the Hudson River in the town of Rhinebeck (town), New York, Rhinebeck in northern Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population of Rhinecliff was 425. History Today’s Rhinecliff was founded by Europeans in 1686 as the town of ''Kipsbergen'' by five Dutchmen, among them Hendrikus and Jacobus Kip. They moved from Kingston, New York, Kingston on the west bank to live in the new settlement along the eastern shore of the Hudson. By this time England had already taken over New Netherland, the former Dutch colony that included Manhattan. In 1849, under the influence of the Hudson River School of painters, the hamlet was renamed as "Rhinecliff". The name was taken from the original name of the Jones-Schermerhorn estate, now known as "Wyndcliffe". Anna L. and Levi P. Morton, who owned the near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milan, New York
Milan is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess County, New York (state), New York, United States. The town is in the northern part of the county and is very rural. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census it had a population of 2,245, slightly down from 2,370 in 2010. Milan is located approximately north of New York City, south of Albany, New York, Albany, and west of Boston. It is bordered by Rhinebeck, New York, Rhinebeck and Red Hook, New York, Red Hook to the west, Pine Plains, New York, Pine Plains to the east, Stanford, New York, Stanford to the southeast, Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, Clinton to the south, and Gallatin, New York, Gallatin to the north by Columbia County, New York, Columbia County. The only major route in the town is the historic Taconic State Parkway, though New York State Route 199, NY 199 serves as the main local thoroughfare. History The area that comprises Milan today was the western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Companies Disestablished In 1882
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer faciliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Companies Established In 1870
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on Railroad tie, sleepers (ties) set in track ballast, ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower friction, frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The rail transport operations, operation is carried out by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companies Affiliated With The Central New England Railway
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is generating profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duty according to the publicly declared incorporation, or published policy. When a company closes, it may need to be liquidated to avoid further legal obligations. Companies may associate and collectively register themselves as new companies; the resulting entities are often known as corporate groups. Meanings and definitions A company can be defined as an "artificial per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct New York (state) Railroads
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New York And Harlem Railroad
The New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United States, and was the world's first street railway. Designed by John Stephenson, it was opened in stages between 1832 and 1852 between Lower Manhattan to and beyond Harlem. Horses initially pulled railway carriages, followed by a conversion to steam engines, then on to battery-powered Julien electric traction cars. In 1907, the then leaseholders of the line, New York City Railway, a streetcar operator, went into receivership. Following a further receivership in 1932, the New York Railways Corporation converted the line to bus operation. The Murray Hill Tunnel now carries a lane of road traffic, but not the buses. The line became part of the New York Central Railroad system with trackage rights granted to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into Manhattan. It is now part of the Metro-North Railroad system, and the only Manhattan trackage of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poughkeepsie And Eastern Railway
The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway was the first railroad to run east from Poughkeepsie, New York, and was taken over by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and assigned to the Central New England Railway in 1907. History Beginnings The Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railroad was chartered April 13, 1866 to be built from Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River northeast to Boston Corners in Ancram, Columbia County, NY, and then southeast to the Connecticut state line, where it would connect with the Connecticut Western Railroad, which would continue east to Hartford, Connecticut. The line opened on January 24, 1871 and ran from Poughkeepsie to Stissing. At Stissing the P&E had trackage rights to use that portion of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad line that ran from Stissing to Pine Plains. On October 1, 1872 the remainder of the P&E line was opened from Pine Plains to the state line. The P&E's main yard and engine facilities were at the Smith Street Yard in Poughkeep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Corners Station
The Boston Corners station was a former New York Central Railroad station that served the residents of Ancram, New York. History Boston Corners was the first stop of the New York and Harlem Railroad in Columbia County, between Dover Plains (to the south) and the end of the line at Chatham (to the north), and was constructed between 1848 and 1852. The site was originally known as "Boston Corner" which was located at the time in the very Southwest corner of Massachusetts. However, on January 3, 1855 the United States Congress annexed from Massachusetts to New York. This now situated about of the NY&H in New York State. In the early days of the development the area was known as "the Badlands" which was a spot where numerous fugitives would engage in illegal activities such as boxing and prize fights. The railroad was acquired by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1864, and converted it into the Harlem Division. By the early 1870s the station also began to serve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copake, New York
Copake is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 3,346 at the 2020 US census, down from 3,615 at the 2010 census. The town derives its name from a lake, which was known to the natives as ''Cook-pake'', or ''Ack-kook-peek'',William Martin Beauchamp''Aboriginal place names of New York'' p.46 meaning "Snake Pond". Copake is on the eastern border of the county. Taconic State Park is along the eastern edge of the town. History Copake was part of the 1686 Taconic Grant to Robert Livingston, for approximately of good land and of woodland. After it was purchased from the Indians, it turned out to be , and he established the English-style Livingston Manor. The manor extended well into what is now Massachusetts. The first lease given by Livingston in Copake was for about in 1687, to Matthews Abraham Van Deusen. Because New England claimed ownership west to the Hudson River, a border dispute broke out. The Massachusetts Bay Colony laid out three townships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poughkeepsie And Connecticut Railroad
The Central New England Railway was a railroad from Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, west across northern Connecticut and across the Hudson River on the Poughkeepsie Bridge to Maybrook, New York. It was part of the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route, an alliance between railroads for a passenger route from Washington to Boston, and was acquired by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1904. History Hartford west: 1868-1889 The Connecticut Western Railroad was chartered June 25, 1868 to run from Hartford, Connecticut, west to the New York state line, where it would meet the Dutchess & Columbia Railroad just east of Millerton, New York. The line was completed December 21, 1871; the previous month the company had leased the easternmost bit of the D&C to gain access to the New York & Harlem Railroad at Millerton. The only branch was a short one in Connecticut, south into Collinsville, which would not be completed until December, 1874. The Connecticut Weste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
