List of companies transferred to Conrail


The Consolidated Rail Corporation 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:
So were most railroads that had been leased or controlled by them, sometimes jointly.
Conrail maintained existing leases of the small Amsterdam, Chuctanunda and Northern Railroad and Central Railroad of Indianapolis, as well as the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, owned by the non-railroad Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. In addition, Conrail acquired long-term leases on several Canadian properties : the St. Lawrence and Adirondack Railway, the Canada Southern Railway, and its subsidiaries Detroit River Tunnel Company and Niagara River Bridge Company. All of these Canadian companies but the St. Lawrence and Adirondack were given up in 1985. None of the property of the New York and Harlem Railroad was transferred to Conrail, but a portion was operated under contract as a light-density line.
NameControlNotes
Allentown Terminal RailroadCNJ-
Ann Arbor RailroadAA-
Baltimore and Eastern RailroadPC -
Bay Shore Connecting RailroadCNJ/LV-
Beech Creek RailroadPC -
Buffalo Creek RailroadEL /LVMerged on December 31, 1983
Central Indiana RailwayPC -
Central Railroad of New JerseyCNJ-
Central Railroad of PennsylvaniaCNJNo real property conveyed
Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw RailwayPC -
Chicago River and Indiana RailroadPC -
Cleveland and Pittsburgh RailroadPC -
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis RailwayPC -
Connecting RailwayPC -
Dayton Union RailwayPC -
Delaware RailroadPC -
Delaware and Bound Brook RailroadRDG-
Detroit Manufacturers RailroadPC -
Dover and Rockaway RailroadCNJ-
East Pennsylvania RailroadRDG-
Erie and Kalamazoo RailroadPC -
Erie Lackawanna RailwayEL -
Erie and Pittsburgh RailroadPC -
Fort Wayne and Jackson RailroadPC -
Holyoke and Westfield RailroadPC -
Hudson River Bridge Company at AlbanyPC -
Indianapolis Union RailwayPC -
Ironton RailroadLV/RDG-
Joliet and Northern Indiana RailroadPC -
Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids RailroadPC -
Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley RailwayEL -
Lehigh and Hudson River RailwayL&HR-
Lehigh and New England RailwayCNJ-
Lehigh Valley RailroadLV-
Little Miami RailroadPC -
Mahoning Coal RailroadPC -
Mahoning and Shenango Valley CompanyPC -
Michigan Central RailroadPC -
Monongahela RailwayMGAMerged on May 1, 1993
Mount Hope Mineral RailroadCNJ-
New York Connecting RailroadPC -
New York and Long Branch RailroadPC /CNJ-
Niagara Junction RailwayEL /LV/PC -
North Brookfield RailroadPC -
North Pennsylvania RailroadRDG-
Northern Central RailwayPC -
Norwich and Worcester RailroadPC -
Penn Central Transportation CompanyPC -
Penndel CompanyPC Successor to a number of non-operating subsidiaries
Pennsylvania and Atlantic RailroadPC -
Pennsylvania–Reading Seashore LinesPC /RDG-
Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal RailroadPC -
Peoria and Eastern RailwayPC -
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington RailroadPC -
Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown RailroadRDG-
Philadelphia and Trenton RailroadPC -
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago RailwayPC -
Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula RailwayPC -
Plymouth RailroadRDG-
Port Reading RailroadRDG-
Raritan River RailroadPC /CNJMerged in April 1980
Reading CompanyRDG-
Rochester and Genesee Valley RailroadEL -
Shamokin Valley and Pottsville RailroadPC -
South Manchester RailroadPC -
Trenton–Princeton Traction CompanyRDG-
Troy and Greenbush RailroadPC -
Union Depot Company (Columbus, Ohio)PC -
Union Railroad of BaltimorePC -
United New Jersey Railroad and Canal CompanyPC -
Waynesburg Southern RailroadPC -
Waynesburg and Washington RailroadPC -
West Jersey and Seashore RailroadPC /RDG-
Wharton and Northern RailroadCNJ-
Wilmington and Northern RailroadRDG-
American Contract CompanyPCNo real property conveyed
Communipaw Central Land CompanyCNJ-
Consolidated Real Estate CompanyLV-
Despatch Shops, Inc.PC-
Eastern Real Estate CompanyRDG-
Erie Land and Improvement CompanyEL -
Erie Land and Improvement Company of PennsylvaniaEL -
Hoboken Ferry CompanyEL -
Hudson Realty CompanyEL-
Lawroy Land CompanyEL-
Manor Real Estate CompanyPC-
New York Central Development CorporationPC-
Penndiana Improvement CorporationPC-
Providence Produce Warehouse CompanyPC-
United Real Estate CompanyLV-