New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad, reporting mark NYC, was a major American railroad operating mainly in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions. Its main lines tied greater New York and Boston in the east to Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, passing through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse. Established in 1853 by consolidating several earlier companies, among them the pioneering Mohawk and Hudson Railroad of 1826, it was headquartered in the New York Central Building beside Grand Central Terminal. At the end of 1925 it operated 11,584 miles of road. In 1968 it merged with its former rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad, to form Penn Central, which went bankrupt in 1970 and re-emerged in 1976 as Conrail, split in 1999 between CSX and Norfolk Southern.