The Long Island Traction Company was a street railway

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and

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History

In order to get around anti- stock watering statutes, the owners of the

Brooklyn City Rail Road The Brooklyn City Railroad (BCRR) was the oldest and one of the largest operators of streetcars (horsecars and later trolleys) in the City of Brooklyn, New York, continuing in that role when Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898. In ...

, capitalized at $6 million, incorporated the Long Island Traction Company in

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in March 1893 with a capital of $30 million. The BCRR-controlled Brooklyn Heights Railroad, until then the operator of only the short cable-operated Montague Street Line, leased the BCRR on June 6, 1893. The Long Island Traction Company acquired the Broadway Railroad by May 1893, and incorporated the

Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad The Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad (BQC&S) was a street railway company in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, United States. It originated as a horsecar line until it was acquired by the Long Island Traction Company on November 24, ...

on November 24, 1893 to take it over, as well as the Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad and Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad. The increased capitalization was used to convert the companies from

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to trolley operations. The Long Island Traction Company went

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in mid-1895 after a January

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. The

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was incorporated January 18, 1896, and took over the LI Traction Company in early February.

Controlled lines

;From the

Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn
1895, pages 33-34 * Annex Line * Bowery Bay Line * Bushwick Line * Calvary Cemetery Line * Corona Line *

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* Crosstown Line *

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* Flatbush Avenue Line * Flushing Avenue Line * Fulton Street Line *

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* Gates Avenue Line * Grand Street Line * Greenpoint Line *

Hamilton Avenue Line The B33 was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running mostly along Hamilton Avenue between Bay Ridge and Hamilton Ferry at the north end of the avenue in Red Hook. Originally a streetcar line known as the Hamilton Avenue Line, i ...

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* Myrtle Avenue Line * Nostrand Avenue Line * Putnam Avenue Line *

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* Second Avenue Line * Third Avenue Line *

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* Union Avenue Line ;From the Brooklyn Heights Railroad * Montague Street Line ;From the Broadway RailroadReport of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn
1895, pages 52-53 * Broadway Line *

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* Reid Avenue Line * Sumner Avenue Line ;From the Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad * Lutheran Cemetery Branch * Metropolitan Avenue Line ;From the Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad * Jamaica Line

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Long Island Traction Company Predecessors of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation Streetcar lines in Brooklyn Streetcar lines in Queens, New York Defunct public transport operators in the United States Defunct New York (state) railroads