List of railroads transferred to Conrail

The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was formed on April 1, 1976 not by a standard merger, but as a new government corporation that took over only designated lines and other rail-related assets from the existing bankrupt companies. Seven major companies were included (the Ann Arbor Railroad left shortly after), as well as many railroads that had been leased or controlled by them, sometimes jointly.

Penn Central Transportation

(New York Central Railroad)
*Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad
*Beech Creek Railroad
*Canada Southern Railway
*Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway
*Chicago River and Indiana Railroad
*Central Railroad of Indianapolis
*Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway
*Detroit Manufacturers' Railroad
*Detroit River Tunnel Company
*Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad
*Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad
*Hudson River Bridge Company
*Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad
*Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railroad
*Owasco River RailwayFact|date=February 2007
*Mahoning Coal Railroad
*Mahoning and Shenango Valley Railway
*Michigan Central Railroad
*New York and Harlem Railroad
*Niagara River Bridge Company
*Peoria and Eastern Railway
*St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway
*Troy and Greenbush Railroad(Pennsylvania Railroad)
*Baltimore and Eastern Railroad
*Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad
*Connecting Railway
*Delaware Railroad
*Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad
*Little Miami Railroad
*Northern Central Railway
*Penndel Company
*Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad
*Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad
*Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad
*Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
*Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway
*Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway
*Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad
*Union Railroad of Baltimore
*United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company
*Waynesburg Southern Railroad

(New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad)
*Holyoke and Westfield Railroad
*Norwich and Worcester Railroad
*South Manchester Railroad

Reading Company

*Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad
*East Pennsylvania Railroad
*North Pennsylvania Railroad
*Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad
*Plymouth Railroad
*Port Reading Railroad
*Trenton-Princeton Traction Company
*Wilmington and Northern Railroad

Ann Arbor Railroad

Lehigh Valley Railroad

*Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
*Raritan Terminal and Transportation Company

Central Railroad of New Jersey

*Dover and Rockaway Railroad
*Lehigh and New England Railway
*Mount Hope Mineral Railroad
*Wharton and Northern Railroad

Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad

Erie Lackawanna Railway

*Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway (DL&W)
*Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad (Erie)

Jointly owned and operated

*Allentown Terminal Railroad (CNJ/RDG)
*Bay Shore Connecting Railroad (CNJ/LV)
*Buffalo Creek Railroad (Erie/LV)
*Dayton Union Railway (NYC/PRR/B&O?)
*Indianapolis Union Railway (NYC/PRR)
*Ironton Railroad (LV/RDG)
*New York Connecting Railroad (NH/PRR)
*New York and Long Branch Railroad (CNJ/PRR)
*Niagara Junction Railroad (Erie/NYC?)
*Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRR/RDG)
**West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (PRR/RDG)
*Raritan River Railroad (CNJ/PRR)
*Union Depot (Columbus) (NYC/PRR)

References

*1975 Conrail Final System Plan