Long Island Traction Company
The Long Island Traction Company was a street railway holding company in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States.
History[]
In order to get around anti-stock watering statutes, the owners of the Brooklyn City Rail Road, capitalized at $6 million, incorporated the Long Island Traction Company in West Virginia in March 1893 with a capital of $30 million. The BCRR-controlled[1] Brooklyn Heights Railroad, until then the operator of only the short cable-operated , leased the BCRR on June 6, 1893.[2][3][4] The Long Island Traction Company acquired the by May 1893,[5] and incorporated the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad on November 24, 1893 to take it over, as well as the and .[6] The increased capitalization was used to convert the companies from horse car to trolley operations.
The Long Island Traction Company went bankrupt in mid-1895[7] after a January strike.[8] The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated January 18, 1896,[9] and took over the LI Traction Company in early February.[10]
Controlled lines[]
- From the Brooklyn City Rail Road[11]
- Bushwick Line
- Crosstown Line
- Flatbush Avenue Line
- Fulton Street Line
- Furman Street Line
- Gates Avenue Line
- Grand Street Line
- Greenpoint Line
- Hamilton Avenue Line
- Holy Cross Line
- Lorimer Street Line
- Meeker Avenue Line
- Myrtle Avenue Line
- Nostrand Avenue Line
- Putnam Avenue Line
- Richmond Hill Line
- Third Avenue Line
- Tompkins Avenue Line
- Union Avenue Line
- From the Brooklyn Heights Railroad
- From the [12]
- Broadway Line
- Ralph Avenue Line
- Reid Avenue Line
- Sumner Avenue Line
- From the [12]
- From the [12]
References[]
- ^ "The Montague Street Road". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 18 July 1890. p. 6.
- ^ Frank Parsons, The City for the People: Or, The Municipalization of the City Government and of Local Franchises, page 96
- ^ William Z. Ripley, Trusts, Pools and Corporations, page 146
- ^ "The Lease of the City Lines". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 7 June 1893. p. 10.
- ^ "Reaching for Routes". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 31 May 1893. p. 10.
- ^ "Surface Railroad Deals". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 25 November 1893. p. 1.
- ^ "Local Stocks and Bonds". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 2 June 1895. p. 23.
- ^ "The Tie Up". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 14 January 1895. p. 1.
- ^ "L.I. Traction Reorganization". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 18 January 1896. p. 1.
- ^ "Local Stocks and Bonds". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, NY. 9 February 1896. p. 23.
- ^ Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn, 1895, pages 33-34
- ^ a b c Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn, 1895, pages 52-53
- Predecessors of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation
- Streetcar lines in Brooklyn
- Streetcar lines in Queens, New York
- Defunct public transport operators in the United States
- Defunct New York (state) railroads