The Atlantic Avenue Railroad was a company in the state of New York whose main line joined downtown Brooklyn with Jamaica along Atlantic Avenue. It grew out of the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, the first railroad on Long Island, which was incorporated in 1832 and worked by the Long Island Rail Road under lease. The line was reorganised as a horse car service in 1859 and 1860, took the name Brooklyn and Jamaica Railway in 1866 and became the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in 1872. By 1892 it ran more than 23 miles of track, ten colour-coded lines and eight depots, and it was later absorbed into the Nassau Electric Railroad. Today its route is split between the active Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and the preserved, unused Cobble Hill Tunnel.
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a company in the U.S. state of New York
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the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in 1872
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It later became part of the Nassau Electric Railroad
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a company in the U.S. state of New York
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It was largely a streetcar company
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a company in the U.S. state of New York
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