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Syracuse, Chenango and New York Railroad

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2022
Entity authorityQ7663001 ↗
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The Syracuse and Chenango Valley Railroad was incorporated April 16, 1868, and had routes through the Chenango Valley from the city of Syracuse in Onondaga County to the village of Earlville in Madison County, a distance of 45.49 miles (73.21 km). It was renamed to Syracuse and Chenango Railroad in 1873 and into Syracuse, Chenango and New York Railroad in 1877.

During 1883, the road merged into Syracuse, Ontario and New York Railway and by 1891 became part of New York Central Railroad (NYCRR).

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This entry incorporates text from “Syracuse, Chenango and New York Railroad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.