Talk:West Shore Railroad
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Saratoga and Hudson River Railroad Spring 1866 Athens Jct - Athens Jersey City and Albany Railroad reopened May 11, 1874 under lease by New Jersey Midland - south of Tappan open to Haverstraw by 1880 North River Railroad planned to continue from Haverstraw to Albany with branches to Schenectady and to the NYO&W east of Wurtsborough Planned as part of line to San Francisco, continuing from Buffalo on the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Northern Pacific Railroad and Oregon Navigation Company
- Another New Railroad Completed, New York Times March 19, 1866 page 5
- City and Suburban News, New York Times May 2, 1874 page 12
- General Railway Notes, New York Times June 15, 1880 page 5
- Extensive Railroad Projects, New York Times August 4, 1880 page 5
- A New Line to the West, New York Times November 5, 1881 page 8
Ridgefield Park Railroad 4/4/1867 Rockland Central Railroad 5/23/1870 Rockland Central Extension Railroad 5/29/1872 Rockland Central Railroad 7/29/1872 Jersey City and Albany Railroad 6/24/1873 Jersey City and Albany Railroad 9/18/1877 Jersey City and Albany Railway 10/12/1878 Jersey City and Albany Railway 1/25/1879 - 1/28/1879 New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway 2/18/1880 North River Railway 4/3/1880 North River Railroad 5/5/1881 New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railway 6/14/1881 opened 1/1/1884 West Shore Railroad 12/5/1885
On July 9, 1901, the West Shore Railroad Company merged with itself the West Shore and Ontario Terminal Company, formed on June 20, 1883, as The Open Cut and General Storehouse Company (the name being changed on the same date) by consolidation of The National Stock Yard Company (incorporated March 16, 1869, supplemented February 23, 1870), The Midland Terminal and Ferry Company (incorporated by change of name March 7, 1873, from The Weehawken Transportation Company, incorporated March 22, 1871) and The Open Cut and General Storehouse Company (incorporated March 22, 1871, in the state of New Jersey as a reorganization after sale, on September 21, 1881, of The Weehawken Ferry Company, incorporated March 25, 1852, in the state of New Jersey).
