Rochester and Lake Ontario Railroad
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The Rochester and Lake Ontario Railroad was incorporated May 17, 1852; it was merged September 30, 1855, into the New York Central Railroad.
| New York Central Railroad subsidiaries |
| The New York Central was formed from 10 smaller companies in 1853, with leases on the Buffalo and Niagara Falls and Rochester and Lake Ontario. Its original system included the main line as well as the Auburn Road, Falls Road, Schenectady and Troy and Buffalo and Lockport.
Lewiston (1854) - Niagara Bridge and Canandaigua (1858) In 1867 Cornelius Vanderbilt gained control of the New York Central. He already controlled the following lines: Hudson River - Harlem Canada Southern - Michigan Central - Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad (1871) - Lake Shore (ca. 1877) - Geneva and Lyons (1878) - Nickel Plate (1882) - West Shore (1885) - Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad (1891) - Putnam (1894) - Gardenville (1898) - Boston and Albany Railroad (1900) - Rutland (1904) - New York and Ottawa (1905) |
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