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Transportation Company - Canada Southern - Railroad
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Company NameCanada Southern
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1868
Final Year of Operation1929
TerminationAcquired
Successor/ParentNew York Central (Details)
CountryCanada (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
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Transportation Company - Canada Southern - Railroad



Company History: The CSR was established in 1868 under the name Erie & Niagara Extension Railway Company with the goal of building a line from Fort Erie (just across the border from Buffalo, New York) to St. Thomas and Windsor in southern Ontario. The name was changed to Canada Southern the following year and the first locomotives were delivered in 1871. They then took over the Erie & Niagara Railway and a bit later the Fort Erie Railway. By 1883, CSR was running a short segment on the Fort Erie end of the planned route and the Essex to Windsor segment on the western end of the planned route. At this point, Michigan Central leased the property for 21 years. The CSR was subsequently completed from Windsor to Fort Erie, giving the Michigan Central (which was controlled by the New York Central) a line from the Detroit area to Buffalo through southern Ontario. Michigan Central extended their lease another 99 years and in 1929, sub-leased it to their parent New York Central. Most rolling stock on the CSR during this period carried NYC lettering as the CSR straddled the line between operating and paper railroad. NYC began to de-emphasize the route in the 1960s and it subsequently passed to Penn Central, then Conrail. In 1977, CSR’s “CASO” freight car reporting marks were retired. Conrail sold the line to Canadian National and Canadian Pacific in 1985.
Successor/Parent History:
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC), known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Headquartered in New York City, the railroad served most of the Northeast, including extensive trackage in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Massachusetts, plus additional trackage in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St.Louis in the midwest along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit. NYC's Grand Central Terminal in New York City is one of its best known extant landmarks.

1853 company formation: Albany industrialist and Mohawk Valley Railroad owner Erastus Corning managed to unite ten railroads together into one system, and on March 17, 1853 executives and stockholders of each company agreed to merge. The merger was approved by the state legislature on April 2, and by May 17, 1853 the New York Central Railroad was formed.

In 1867 Vanderbilt acquired control of the Albany to Buffalo running NYC. On November 1, 1869 he merged the NYC with his Hudson River Railroad into the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. Vanderbilt's other lines were operated as part of the NYC.

In 1914, the operations of eleven subsidiaries were merged with the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, re-forming the New York Central Railroad. From the beginning of the merge, the railroad was publicly referred to as the New York Central Lines. In the summer of 1935, the identification was changed to the New York Central System.

In 1968 the NYC merged with its former rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad, to form Penn Central (the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad joined in 1969). That company went bankrupt in 1970 and was taken over by the federal government and merged into Conrail in 1976. Conrail was broken up in 1998, and portions of its system was transferred to the newly formed New York Central Lines LLC, a subsidiary leased to and eventually absorbed by CSX and Norfolk Southern. Those companies' lines included the original New York Central main line, but outside that area it included lines that were never part of the New York Central system. CSX was able to take one of the most important main lines in the nation, which runs from New York City and Boston to Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the Water Level Route, while Norfolk Southern gained the Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois portion of the line called the Chicago line.

At the end of 1925, the New York Central System operated 11,584 miles (18,643 km) of road and 26,395 miles (42,479 km) of track; at the end of 1967 the mileages were 9,696 miles (15,604 km) and 18,454 miles (29,699 km).

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Canada is a North American country stretching from the U.S. in the south to the Arctic Circle in the north. Major cities include massive Toronto, west coast film centre Vancouver, French-speaking Montréal and Québec City, and capital city Ottawa. Canada's vast swaths of wilderness include lake-filled Banff National Park in the Rocky Mountains. It's also home to Niagara Falls, a famous group of massive waterfalls.

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Item created by: gdm on 2017-10-10 09:55:47. Last edited by gdm on 2023-08-13 10:30:26

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