The Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago Railway (BC&C) was a proposed

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in the

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during the late 19th century. The company was incorporated in the states of New York and Pennsylvania in January 1881 by three New York bankers: Clark, Post, and Martin. The railroad was to be parallel to William Vanderbilt's

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833 and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the ...

from the east side of

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to Buffalo, a distance of 185-miles (298 km). The route was surveyed during January and February 1881, but before construction could begin the BC&C was acquired in March 1881 by the

Seney Syndicate During 1879 and 1880, the Seney Syndicate linked together several short railroads in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to form the Lake Erie and Western Railroad. The Seney Syndicate was headed by George I. Seney, a New York banker. Eastern members of ...

. Those surveys were promptly used to construct the Buffalo-Cleveland portion of the mainline for that group's New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company (later known as the Nickel Plate Road).

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