List of companies transferred to Conrail
The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was formed on April 1, 1976 not by a standard merger, but as a new government corporation that took over only designated lines and other rail-related assets from the existing bankrupt companies. Seven major companies were included:
- Penn Central Transportation Company (PC), successor to the New York Central Railroad (NYC), New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NH), and Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Erie Lackawanna Railway (EL), successor to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) and Erie Railroad (Erie)
- Ann Arbor Railroad (AA), controlled by Penn Central[1]
- Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ)
- Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR)
- Lehigh Valley Railroad (LV), controlled by Penn Central[1]
- Reading Company (RDG)
So were most railroads that had been leased or controlled by them, sometimes jointly.
Conrail maintained existing leases of the small (PC-NYC) and Central Railroad of Indianapolis (PC-NYC), as well as the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (LV), owned by the non-railroad Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.[2] In addition, Conrail acquired long-term leases on several Canadian properties (all PC-NYC): the St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway, the Canada Southern Railway, and its subsidiaries Detroit River Tunnel Company and Niagara River Bridge Company. All of these Canadian companies but the St. Lawrence and Adirondack were given up in 1985.[3] None of the property of the New York and Harlem Railroad was transferred to Conrail, but a portion was operated under contract as a light-density line.
Name | Control | Notes |
---|---|---|
CNJ | ||
Ann Arbor Railroad | AA | |
PC (PRR) | ||
CNJ/LV | ||
Beech Creek Railroad | PC (NYC) | |
EL (Erie)/LV | Merged on December 31, 1983[4] | |
Central Indiana Railway | PC (NYC/PRR) | |
Central Railroad of New Jersey | CNJ | |
Central Railroad of Pennsylvania | CNJ | No real property conveyed |
Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway | PC (NYC) | |
PC (NYC) | ||
PC (PRR) | ||
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway | PC (NYC) | |
Connecting Railway | PC (PRR) | |
PC (NYC/PRR) | ||
Delaware Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad | RDG | |
PC (NYC) | ||
Dover and Rockaway Railroad | CNJ | |
East Pennsylvania Railroad | RDG | |
Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad | PC (NYC) | |
Erie Lackawanna Railway | EL (Erie/DL&W) | |
Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
PC (NYC) | ||
PC (NH) | ||
Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany | PC (NYC) | |
Indianapolis Union Railway | PC (NYC/PRR) | |
Ironton Railroad | LV/RDG | |
PC (NYC) | ||
PC (NYC) | ||
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway | EL (DL&W) | |
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway | L&HR | |
Lehigh and New England Railway | CNJ | |
Lehigh Valley Railroad | LV | |
Little Miami Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
Mahoning Coal Railroad | PC (NYC) | |
PC (NYC) | ||
Michigan Central Railroad | PC (NYC) | |
Monongahela Railway | MGA | Merged on May 1, 1993 |
CNJ | ||
New York Connecting Railroad | PC (NH/PRR) | |
New York and Long Branch Railroad | PC (PRR)/CNJ | |
Niagara Junction Railway | EL (Erie)/LV/PC (NYC) | |
North Brookfield Railroad | PC (NH) | |
North Pennsylvania Railroad | RDG | |
Northern Central Railway | PC (PRR) | |
Norwich and Worcester Railroad | PC (NH) | |
Penn Central Transportation Company | PC (NYC/PRR/NH) | |
PC (NYC/PRR) | Successor to a number of non-operating subsidiaries | |
PC (PRR) | ||
Pennsylvania–Reading Seashore Lines | PC (PRR)/RDG | |
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
Peoria and Eastern Railway | PC (NYC) | |
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad | RDG | |
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway | PC (PRR) | |
PC (PRR) | ||
RDG | ||
Port Reading Railroad | RDG | |
Raritan River Railroad | PC (PRR)/CNJ | Merged in April 1980[3] |
Reading Company | RDG | |
EL (Erie) | ||
PC (PRR) | ||
South Manchester Railroad | PC (NH) | |
RDG | ||
PC (NYC) | ||
Union Depot Company (Columbus, Ohio) | PC (NYC/PRR) | |
Union Railroad of Baltimore | PC (PRR) | |
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company | PC (PRR) | |
PC (PRR) | ||
Waynesburg and Washington Railroad | PC (PRR) | |
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad | PC (PRR)/RDG | |
CNJ | ||
Wilmington and Northern Railroad | RDG | |
PC | No real property conveyed | |
CNJ | ||
LV | ||
PC | ||
RDG | ||
EL (Erie) | ||
EL (Erie) | ||
EL (DL&W) | ||
EL | ||
EL | ||
PC | ||
PC | ||
PC | ||
PC | ||
LV |
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References[]
- United States Railway Association (USRA), Washington, DC. "The Conveyance Process: A Supplement to the Final Report of the United States Railway Association." December 1986. pp. 7–9, Attachment B.
- ^ a b Moody's Transportation Manual, 1975, p. 189
- ^ USRA (1975). "Final System Plan for Restructuring Railroads in the Northeast and Midwest Region Pursuant to the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973." p. 230.
- ^ a b Moody's Transportation Manual, 1992, pp. 418, 446
- ^ Moody's Transportation Manual, 1984, p. xxi
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