Schenectady and Troy Railroad

Troy & Schenectady Railroad crossing old Balltown Road in Niskayuna, now part of the Mohawk Hudson Bike/Hike Trail

The Troy & Schenectady Railroad was incorporated May 21, 1836. The stock was divided into five hundred shares at one hundred dollars each. The building of the road began in 1841, and trains began running from Schenectady to Troy, New York in the fall of 1841 (21.0 miles). It was constructed by the city of Troy, the corporation issuing its bonds in the amount of $649,142. Consolidated into the New York Central Railroad under the act of 1853.

Parts of this railroad are now the Mohawk Hudson Hike/Bike Trail.^[1]

References

↑ "Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail Map 2010". Capital District Transportation Committee. 2010.

External links

Troy & Schenectady Railroad Website (KinglyHeirs.com)

New York Central Railroad subsidiaries

1850s	1853: Auburn Road Albany and Schenectady Falls Road Schenectady and Troy Buffalo and Lockport 1854: Lewiston 1855: Buffalo and Niagara Falls Rochester and Lake Ontario 1858: Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua

1860s	1869: Hudson River

1870s	1871: Canada Southern Michigan Central Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris 1873: Harlem ca. 1877: Lake Shore 1878: Geneva and Lyons

1880s	1882: Nickel Plate 1885: West Shore

1890s	1891: Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad 1894: Putnam 1898: Gardenville

1900s	1900: Boston and Albany Railroad 1904: Rutland 1905: New York and Ottawa 1909: New York State Railways

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