The Long Island Electric Railway was a

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company operating in

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, and

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between 1894 and 1926. The company was partially owned by the Long Island Consolidated Electric Companies, a holding company for the Long Island Rail Road and partially by

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and the

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Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys
June 21, 1905, page 14 It connected the east end of the Fulton Street El at

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station in

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with Jamaica, Queens, and ran from there to the Nassau County line at Queens Village and to

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via Nassau County. It also had a connection to Belmont Park. The New York and Long Island Traction Company used

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over its line from Crescent Street to Queens Village. Both Long Island Electric and the New York and Long Island Traction Companies went bankrupt in 1926, following a fire that destroyed the companies' barn facility in 1924. However while trolley service was no longer available for Nassau County, the LIER was reorganized and reestablished as the Jamaica Central Railways, which ran both buses and trolleys for the next six years, and buses exclusively for the rest of the 20th Century as

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until it was acquired by the

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in 2006.

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