Troy & Schenectady Railroad overpass, Niskayuna NY

The Troy & Schenectady Railroad was incorporated May 21, 1836. The stock was divided into five hundred shares at one hundred dollars each. The building of the road began in 1841, and trains began running from

Schenectady Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ...

Troy, New York Troy is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Rensselaer County. The city is located on the western edge of Rensselaer County and on the eastern bank of the Hudson River. Troy has close ties to the nearby cities of Albany ...

in the fall of 1841 (21.0 miles). It was constructed by the city of Troy, the corporation issuing its bonds in the amount of $649,142. Consolidated into the

New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mid ...

under the act of 1853. Parts of this railroad are, since service ended in 1965, now the Mohawk Hudson Bike/Hike Trail.

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Troy & Schenectady Railroad Website (KinglyHeirs.com)
Predecessors of the New York Central Railroad Defunct New York (state) railroads Schenectady, New York Rensselaer County, New York Railway companies established in 1836 Railway lines opened in 1841 Railway companies disestablished in 1853 Transportation in Rensselaer County, New York 1836 establishments in New York (state) Albany County, New York {{US-rail-transport-stub