The Mohawk & Hudson Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New York and one of the first railroads in the United States. It was so-named because it linked the Mohawk River at Schenectady with the Hudson River at Albany. It was conceived as a means of allowing Erie Canal passengers to quickly bypass the circuitous Cohoes Falls via steam powered trains.
The railroad was incorporated on April 17, 1826,[1] as the Mohawk & Hudson Company and opened for public service on August 9, 1831. On April 19, 1847, the company name was changed to the Albany & Schenectady Railroad. The railroad was consolidated into the New York Central Railroad on May 17, 1853.
the Albany & SchenectadyRailroad. The railroad was consolidated into the New York Central Railroad on May 17, 1853. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County...
downtown Schenectadyand the Hudson River waterfront in Albany. The Utica andSchenectadyRailroad was chartered April 29, 1833; as the railroad paralleled...
was a British-American geologist and geographer. He was one of the proposers of the AlbanyandSchenectadyRailroadand was the first geologist to the US...
Transportation Authority which also owns Albany–Rensselaer station and Saratoga Springs station. Schenectady is served by five Amtrak routes. The Lake...
northwest towards Schenectady, while a new branch continued north to Kenwood Junction on the Albanyand Susquehanna Railroad in Albany. This full line formed...
the city the commercial and financial capital of the region south of Philadelphia. Although the AlbanyandSchenectadyRailroad was chartered a year earlier...
Hudson River to Rensselaer and northwest to Hoffmans via AlbanyandSchenectady along a former New York Central Railroad line. From its south end, CSX...
following railroads currently or formerly operated in the U.S. state of New York. Albany Port Railroad (APD) (Port of Albany) Arcade and Attica Railroad (ARA)...
mechanical engineer for the AlbanyandSchenectadyRailroad 1845–1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850–1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852–1876...
to the Jefferson Railroad at Lanesboro. Also leased in 1870 was the Schenectadyand Susquehanna Railroad, connecting the Albanyand Susquehanna at Duanesburg...
The Livingston Avenue Bridge is a railroad bridge over the Hudson River in New York connecting Albanyand Rensselaer. The original structure was built...
Railway AlbanyandSchenectadyRailroad Mohawk and Hudson Railroad Cairo and Lake Huron Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad Catskill Railroad Columbus...
construction of the Schenectadyand Margaretville Railroad was attempted. Special sidings were built for contractors and a large volume of equipment and supplies...
between Rensselaer andSchenectady (which once had four tracks under the New York Central), and add an additional station track at the Albany–Rensselaer station...
instance on the AlbanyandSchenectadyRailroad c. 1837) led to passengers being threatened by "snake-heads" when the straps curled up and penetrated the...
Mohawk and Hudson Railroadand the extension to Saratoga called the Saratoga andSchenectadyRailroad.[page needed] Despite its name, the railroad only...
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