CHRONOLOGY OF SOME OF THE OLDEE IMPORTANT KAILKOADS (Continued). 



Corning to Hornellsville September 3, 1850, 41 miles. 



Hornellsville to Dunkirk April 22, 1851, 123 " 



Whole line opened April 22, 1851, 446 " 



Hornellsville to Buffalo 1852, 92 " 



Newburg branch .1850, 18 " 



Corning to Avon (August 2, 1852, to Way land) 1853, 76 " 



Avon to Kochester August, 1854, 19 " 



Avon to Mt. Morris June, 1859, 16 " 



AvontoLeRoy 1853, 14 " 



Le Koy to Batavia 1854, 10 " 



Attica to Batavia June 20, 1858, 11 " 



Ithaca to O wego (now Delaware, Lackawanna and Western) April 1 , 1834, 83 " 



Elmira to Watkins (now Northern Central Kailroad) December 16, 1849, 17 " 



Watkins to Canandaigua (now Northern Central Kailroad) September 15*1851, 47 " 



Corning to Blossburg 1840, 41 " 



BALTIMORE AND OHIO KAILROAD: 



Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills (the first passenger railroad in the United States), 1830. 



Baltimore to Washington August 25, 1835. 



Baltimore to Harper's Ferry 1834. 



Baltimore to Cumberland 1842. 



Baltimore to Wheeling 1853. 



Baltimore to Parkersburg May 1, 1857. 



PENNSYLVANIA EAILROAD : 



Philadelphia to Columbia (by the State of Pennsylvania) 1834. 



Allegheny Mountain Portage Kailroad 1834. 



Philadelphia to Pittsburg by Pennsylvania Eailroad and the 



State Portage Railroad December 10, 1852. 



Philadelphia to Pittsburg, by Pennsylvania Kailroad, completed. . February 15, 1854. 



BOSTON AND ALBANY KAILROAD : 



Boston to Worcester July 4, 1835. 



Worcester to Albany December 21, 1841. 



BOSTON, MASS., TO OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK 1851. 



CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY (Easton to New York) 1852. 



LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN KAILROAD: 



Toledo to Chicago March 22, 1852. 



Buffalo to Pennsylvania Line : February 22, 1852. 



CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QTTINCY 1854. 



CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC 1854, 



ILLINOIS CENTRAL (Main line) December 28, 1855. 



OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI (Cincinnati to St. Louis) 1860. 



CHICAGO AND NORTH-WESTERN to the Mississippi River at Fulton July 3, 1862. 



UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD AND CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD : 



Omaha to San Frandsco May 10, 1869. 



