CHRONOLOGY OF SOME OF THE OLDER IMPORTANT RAILROADS. 



The several parts of what is now the NEW TOBK CENTEAL AND HUDSON EIVEB EAILEOAD were com- 

 pleted at the following dates : 



Albany to Schenectady 1831, 17 miles. 



Schenectady to Utica, 1886, 78 " 



Buffalo to Niagara Falls 1837, 22 " 



Eochester to Attica (Tonawanda Bailroad) 1837, 42 " 



Utica to Syracuse 1839, 53 u 



Syracuse to Auburn (twenty-two miles in 1838) 1839, 26 " 



Auburn to Eochester August, 1841, 78 " 



Buffalo to Attica December, 1842, 82 " 



Line completed, Albany to Buffalo (gap of one mile filled') 1845. 



Bchenectady to Troy 1842, 21 " 



Troy to Greenbush '. 1845, 6 " 



Batavia to Niagara Falls (afterward taken up) July 1, 1858, 86 " 



Batavia to Buffalo (direct road) 1850, 69 u 



Niagara Falls to Suspension Bridge April 1, 1854, 8 " 



Suspension Bridge to Lewiston 1854, 6 " 



Eochester to Syracuse (direct road) 1853, 81 " 



Eochester to Lockport and Suspension Bridge July 1, 1852, 75 " 



Buffalo to Lockport 1854, 26 " 



Canandaigua to Batavia January 1, 1858, 50 " 



Schenectady to Athens (Athens branch) 1865, 41 " 



New York Central Eailroad, Albany to Buffalo (13 corporations) con- 

 solidated May 1,1853. 



Hudson River Railroad: 



New York to Peekskill September 29, 1849, 41 miles. 



Peekskill to New Hamburg December 6, 1849, 23 " 



New Hamburg to Poughkeepsie December 31, 1849, 9 " 



East Albanyto Hudson June 16,1851, 23 " 



Hudson to Oakhill July 7, 1851, 6 " 



Oakhill to Tivoli August 4, 1851, 10 " 



Tivoli to Poughkeepsie October 8, 1851, 25 " 



Line, New York to East Albany (and to Buffalo), completed. October 8, 1851, 142 " 



New York Central and Hudson Eiver Eailroads consolidated. . . . November 1, 1869. 



New York and Harlem Eailroad completed January 19, 1852, 127 " 



The several sections of the EBIE EAILWAY (now the New York, Lake Erie and Western) were opened 

 at the following dates : 



Piermont to Goshen September, 1841, 46 miles. 



Goshento Middletown June 7, 1843, 7 " 



Middletown to Otisville November 3, 1846, 8 " 



Otisville to Port Jervis January 6, 1848, 13 " 



Port Jervis to Binghamton December 28, 1848, 127 " 



Binghamton to Owego June 1, 1849, 22 " 



Owego to Elmira October, 1849, 87 " 



Elmira to Corning January 1, 1850, 17 " 



