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The Central New York Railroad is a
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operating local freight service along ex-
Southern Tier Line The Southern Tier Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. A mostly former Erie Railroad line, it is suggested that the line runs from Suffern, New York northwest ...
trackage (ex-
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/
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mainline trackage) in the
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s of New York and
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. The line begins at
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, following the Delaware River to Deposit and the Susquehanna River from Lanesboro, where it passes over the Starrucca Viaduct, to
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. It is a subsidiary of the
Delaware Otsego Corporation The Delaware Otsego Corporation (DO) is an American railway holding company which owns the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway and the Central New York Railroad. It is headquartered in Cooperstown, New York in Otsego County. The compan ...
, which also owns the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway, operator of through trains over the line (along with the Norfolk Southern Railway,
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).


History

The CNYK began operations on December 12, 1972
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Employer Status Determination: Central New York Railroad Corporation
, May 24, 2005
between Cassville and
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, having purchased the trackage from the
Erie Lackawanna Railway The Erie Lackawanna Railway , known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route" ...
(EL). The line being operated by the CNYK was opened by the Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley Railway in November 1872 as a branch, and passed to the EL through consolidation. (EL successor Conrail sold the old Utica, Chenango and Susquehanna Valley main line through Cassville to the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway in 1982.) The CNYK suspended service in early 1988 and was authorized to abandon the line in August 1995, at which time the corporation became inactive.Edward A. Lewis, American Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition,
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, 1996, p. 351
Though the CNYK was inactive from 1988-2004, the CNYK was still in existence. Delaware Otsego brought the CNYK back to life on December 31, 2004, when it leased the
Binghamton Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...
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Port Jervis Port Jervis is a city located at the confluence of the Neversink and Delaware rivers in western Orange County, New York, United States, north of the Delaware Water Gap. Its population was 8,775 at the 2020 census. The communities of Deerpark, ...
section of the
Southern Tier Line The Southern Tier Line is a railroad line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. A mostly former Erie Railroad line, it is suggested that the line runs from Suffern, New York northwest ...
from the Norfolk Southern Railway. The line is a former
Erie Railroad The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's Pavonia Terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Er ...
property and this trackage was opened in December 1848,Christopher T. Baer
PRR Chronology
(Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society), accessed December 2008
and passed through the Erie Lackawanna and Conrail to Norfolk Southern. When the CNYK leased the line, the Norfolk Southern retained overhead trackage rights to serve through freight traffic. Surface Transportation Board
Finance Docket No. 34643
January 21, 2005
Since the CNYK does not own any locomotives or other rolling stock, all trains over the CNYK are operated by Delaware Otsego's New York Susquehanna & Western Railway subsidiary, interchanging with the Norfolk Southern at Binghamton.Central New York Railroad
accessed December 2008


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Central New York Railroad
{{DEFAULTSORT:Central New York Railroad New York (state) railroads Pennsylvania railroads Railway companies established in 1972 Spin-offs of the Erie Lackawanna Railway Spin-offs of the Norfolk Southern Railway Central New York