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ICC Abandonment Filings of the

New York Central System Abandonment Filings

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New York Central System
Docket: 4687	1926	Section: 1
New York Central R.R. Co., lessee, and Beech Creek Railroad Company, lessor for certificate of public convenience and necessity for the abandonment of the operation of a line of railroad extending from Kerrmoor to Gazzam, a distance of 2.98 miles, in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.
Length: 2.98 miles	703	Citation: 105 ICC 502

New York Central System
Docket: 7360	1/9/1929	Section: 1&5
App. of (1) Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Go. for certificate to abandon operation of the Mt. Gilead Short Line Ry. between Mt. Gilead and Edison, in Morrow County, Ohio, a distance of 2.1 miles; (2) Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. for authority to acquire control, under lease, of the Mt. Gilead Short Line Ry.; and (3) New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to construct a connecting track between the railroad of the Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. and the railway of the Mt. Gilead Short Line Ry., at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, a length of 200 feet, and to operate the Mt. Gilead Short Line Ry.
Length: 2.1 miles	1702

New York Central System
Docket: 7431	2/9/1929	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon its Hinckley Branch between Prospect Junction and Hinckley, in Oneida County, New York, a distance of 2.84 miles.
Length: 2.84 miles	1703	Citation: 166 ICC 373

New York Central System
Docket: 7563	4/15/1929	Section: 1
App. for certificate to construct a new line of railroad between Briarcliff Manor Station and East View Station, in Westchester County, New York, a distance of 4.612 miles, and to abandon its line between the same points, a length of 6.030 miles.
Length: 6.03 miles	1704

New York Central System
Docket: 8187	4/8/1930	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon operation of a branch line of railroad between San Toy and Sayre, Perry County, Ohio, a distance of 4.26 miles.
Length: 4.26 miles	1705	Citation: 162 ICC 745

New York Central System
Docket: 8302	6/9/1930	Section: 1
App. of Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Ry. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon a portion of a line of railroad known as the White Water Division between Beeson's and Hagerstown, in Wayne County, Indiana, a distance of 13.6 miles.
Length: 13.6 miles	1706	Citation: 170 ICC 336

New York Central System
Docket: 8523	10/16/1930	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central R. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the Johannesburg Branch of the Michigan Central RR. Co. between Sallings Junction and Johannesburg, in Otsego County, Michigan, a distance of 15 miles.
Length: 15.0 miles	1707	Citation: 166 ICC 794

New York Central System
Docket: 8545	10/30/1930	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon that part of the East Jordan Branch of the Michigan Central RR. Co. extending from Marble to East Jordan, in Antrim and Charlevoix Counties, Michigan, a distance of 6.5 miles.
Length: 6.5 miles	1708	Citation: 170 ICC 775

New York Central System
Docket: 4268	1931	Section: 1(18)
New York Central R. R. Co. for a certificate of public convenience and necessity permitting the abandonment of the Mahopac Palls branch of the Putnam Division of its railroad and the operation thereof, in Putnam County, New York.
	702

New York Central System
Docket: 8647	1/13/1931	Section: 1
App. of Zanesville and Western Ry. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate for the former to abandon that portion of its line of railroad between North Corning and Drakes, in Ferry County, Ohio, a distance of 4.12 miles, and the latter to abandon operation thereof.
Length: 4.12 miles	1709	Citation: 170 ICC 743

New York Central System
Docket: 9034	11/13/1931	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co., New York Central RR. Co. and Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee RR. Co. for certificate to abandon that part of the line of railroad of Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee RR. Co. extending from a point in Emmet Township, Calhoun County, in an easterly direction to Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan, a distance of 88.81 miles.
Length: 88.81 miles	1710	Citation: 184 ICC 705

New York Central System
Docket: 9054	12/3/1931	Section: 1
Jt. appl. of Fulton Chain Ry. Co. and the New York Central RR. Co. for certificate authorizing the abandonment of the entire line of railroad of Fulton Chain Ry. Co., same extending from Thendara to Old Forge, in Herkimer County, New York, a distance of 2.21 miles.
Length: 2.21 miles	1711	Citation: 180 ICC 424

New York Central System
Docket: 9085	12/21/1931	Section: 1
Jt. appl. of Findlay Belt Ry. Co., Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland RR. Co., Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Ry. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon both line and operation of the Findlay Belt By. Co., a length of .78 mile, all in the City of Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, and to abandon that part of the Findlay Branch of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland RR. Co., extending from Findlay to Vanlue, all in Hancock County, Ohio, a distance of 9.8 miles.
Length: 9.8 miles	1712	Citation: 184 ICC 194

New York Central System
Docket: 9230	3/7/1932	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the East Jordan Branch of the Michigan Central RR. Co., extending from Frederic, Crawford County, to Marble, Antrim County, Michigan, a distance of 36.31 miles.
Length: 36.31 miles	1713	Citation: 187 ICC 339

New York Central System
Docket: 9290	3/31/1932	Section: 1
Jt. appl. of Zanesville and Western Ry. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon that part of the Cannelville Branch of the Zanesville and Western Ry. Co. extending from Buckeye to Cannelville, Muskingum County, Ohio, a distance of 5.5 miles.
Length: 5.5 miles	1714	Citation: 184 ICC 413

New York Central System
Docket: 9403	5/14/1932	Section: 1
Jt. appl. of Raquette Lake Ry. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the Raquette Lake Ry. Co., between Carter, Herkimer County, and Raquette Lake, Hamilton County, New York, a distance of 18.13 miles.
Length: 18.13 miles	1715	Citation: 199 ICC 278

New York Central System
Docket: 9521	7/8/1932	Section: 1
App. of St. Clair and Western RR. Co., Canada Southern Ry Co., Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the entire line of railroad of the St. Clair and Western RR. Co., extending from St. Clair, St. Clair County, to Richmond, Macomb County, Michigan, a distance of 14.888 miles.
Length: 14.88 miles	1716	Citation: 187 ICC 460

New York Central System
Docket: 9571	8/4/1932	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon its Mahopac Branch, extending from Baldwin Place to Mahopac Falls, in Putnam County, New York, a distance of 2.05 miles.
Length: 2.05 miles	1718

New York Central System
Docket: 9621	9/8/1932	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate for the former to abandon its Twin Lakes Branch, extending from Grayling Township, Crawford County, to Lewiston, Montmorency County, Michigan, a distance of 27.3 miles, and for the latter to abandon operation thereof.
Length: 23.7 miles	1719	Citation: 189 ICC 32

New York Central System
Docket: 9674	10/7/1932	Section: 1
App. of Kankakee and Seneca RR. Co., Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Ry. Co., and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the railroad of the Kankakee and Seneca RR. Co. and the operation thereof, same extending from Kankakee, Kankakee County, to Seneca, LaSalle County, Illinois, a distance of 42.19 miles.
Length: 42.19 miles	1720	Citation: 189 ICC 583

New York Central System
Docket: 9752	12/15/1932	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon that part of its Cowanesque Valley Branch extending from Westfield to Ulysses, in Potter and Tioga Counties, Pennsylvania, a distance of 14.6 miles.
Length: 14.16 miles	1721	Citation: 193 ICC 496

New York Central System
Docket: 9788	12/29/1932	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the Barron Lake Branch of the former Michigan Air Line RR., extending from the point of switch of the so-called Air Line cut-off in Howard Township, Cass County, to a point 2000 feet east of Lake Street, Niles Township, Berrien County, Michigan, a distance of 5.428 miles.
Length: 5.428 miles	1722	Citation: 189 ICC 561

New York Central System
Docket: 9937	4/8/1933	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon the Bentley Branch, extending from a point in Mt. Forest Township to Bentley, in Gibson Township, Bay County, Michigan, a distance of 4.689 miles.
Length: 4.689 miles	1723	Citation: 193 ICC 143

New York Central System
Docket: 10058	6/29/1933	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon that part of its Belmar Branch extending from a point 1.25 miles south of the station at Franklin to a point 1,000 feet north of the station at Belmar, in Venango County, Pennsylvania, a distance of 4.14 miles.
Length: 4.14 miles	1724	Citation: 19. ICC 413

New York Central System
Docket: 10552	7/11/1934	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon that part of its Lockport Branch extending from Beach Ridge to Lockport Junction, a distance of 6 miles, all in Niagara County, New York.
Length: 6.0 miles	1725	Citation: 202 ICC 187

New York Central System
Docket: 10575	8/1/1934	Section: 1
App. of Boston & Albany RR. Co. and New York Central RR. Co. for certificate to abandon that part of the Athol Branch of the Boston & Albany RR. Co extending from Bondsville, in the town of Belchertown, to the town of Athol; a distance of 29 miles, all in the counties of Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester, Massachusetts.
Length: 29.0 miles	1726	Citation: 202 ICC 555

New York Central System
Docket: 10646	10/15/1934	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co., New York Central RR. Co., and Battle Creek & Sturgis Ry. Co. for certificate to abandon the line of Battle Creek & Sturgis Ry. Co. extending from a point in Sherman Township, St. Joseph County, to a point in Battle Creek Township, Calhoun County, Michigan, a distance of 40.03 miles, together with abandonment of operation thereof.
Length: 40.03 miles	1727	Citation: 207 ICC 546

New York Central System
Docket: 10649	10/17/1934	Section: 1
App. for certificate to abandon its Cambria Branch, which extends from Cambria to Pekin, a distance of 3.65 miles, all in Niagara County, New York.
Length: 3.65 miles	1728	Citation: 202 ICC 511

New York Central System
Docket: 11023	11/22/1935	Section: 1
App. of West Shore RR. Co. and New York Central RR Co. for abandonment by the West Shore RR Co. of its southerly portion of line known as Chenango Branch from Cazenovia to Earlville, New York, a distance of 23 miles, and to permit abandonment of operation by the New York Central.
Length: 23.0 miles	1729	Citation: 221 ICC 493

New York Central System
Docket: 11066	1/9/1936	Section: 1
App. for a certificate to abandon that portion of its line extending from Tupper Lake Junction to Helena, New York, in the Counties of St. Lawrence and Franklin, a distance of 62.6. miles.
Length: 62.6 miles	1730	Citation: 221 ICC 133

New York Central System
Docket: 11236	5/5/1936	Section: 1(18)
App. of Michigan Central Railroad Company and New York Central Railroad Company for authority to abandon the Haakwood Branch extending from a point in the Mackinaw Division of that Company (Michigan Central RR Co) known as Haakwood, in a general easterly and to and through Afton, a total distance of about 12.75 miles all in County of Cheboygan, Michigan.
Length: 12.75 miles	1731	Citation: 217 ICC 143

New York Central System
Docket: 11280	7/16/1936	Section: 1
App. of Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion RR Co, for authority to abandon Mill Creek Branch, Strattonsville, Pa. to mouth of Mill Creek on Clarion River, 3.20 miles; and outer end mile, more or less, of Reidsburg Branch extending from Reidsburg, Pa. on the New York Central Railroad Co Alsace Mine, a distance of 2.96 miles, situated in Clarion County, Pa.
Length: 3.2 miles	1732

New York Central System
Docket: 11308	8/17/1936	Section: 1
App. (1) of Boston & Albany RR. Co. to abandon line between Ghent and Chatham, N. Y. and (2) New York Central RR. Co. as Lessee, to abandon operation thereof, and (3) the Boston & Albany and the New York Central, as lessee, for the authority to operate over tracks of the New York and Harlem R. Co. between Chatham and Ghent, Columbia County, N. Y. a distance of 2.66 miles.
	1733

New York Central System
Docket: 11356	9/29/1936	Section: 1
App. of the New York Central RR. Co. for a certificate to permit the extension of the line of railroad by trackage rights over a line of railroad owned and operated by the Erie RR. Co. between Batavia, N. Y. and Attica, N. Y., and the abandonment of a line of railroad extending from Batavia to Attica, known as the Attica Branch, in the counties of Amendment to App. filed 8/10/37.
	1734	Citation: 221 ICC 727

New York Central System
Docket: 11432	11/18/1936	Section: 1
Joint appl of Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Ry Co. and New York Central RR Co. for authority to abandon operation of Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Ry Co. beginning at Dalton Sta. in Barry Township, Barry County, and extending in a general northeasterly direction to Woodbury Station in Sunfield Township, Easton County, a total distance of 26.7 miles, all in state of Michigan. The New York Central RR Co. operates and is in possession of the property of Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Ry Co. by virtue of a lease dated Jan 2 1936 effective Feb 1, 1930 for a term of 99 years.
Length: 26.7 miles	1735	Citation: 221 ICC 371

New York Central System
Docket: 11569	2/25/1937	Section: 1
App. of Michigan Central RR. Co. New York Central RR Co. and Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee RR Co. for authority to abandon that part of Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee RR Co. beginning in a general southeasterly direction to Morgan Park so-called - a distance of 1.13 miles , all in Emmet Township, Calhoun County, Mich.
Length: 1.13 miles	1736	Citation: 221 ICC 287

New York Central System
Docket: 11753	8/6/1937	Section: 1
Joint app. of the Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. and The New York Central RR. Co. for authority to abandon a portion of The St. Mary's Branch of the Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. extending from Peoria, Union County, Ohio, to a point east of Bellafontaine, Logan County, Ohio, a distance of approximately 16.55 miles.
Length: 16.55 miles	1737	Citation: 224 ICC 55

New York Central System
Docket: 11768	8/25/1937	Section: 1
App. of Beech Creek RB Co. and New York Central RR. Co. (Beech Creek owns properties which is leased to New York Central & Hudson RR Co. predecessor of New York Central RR Co) for authority to abandon Beech Creek RR Co. line between Mitchells and Curry Run, a distance of 14.6 miles and at Wigton, a distance .28 miles all in Clearfield County, Pa. and also operation by New York Central RR Co.
Length: 14.6 miles	1738	Citation: 224 ICC 91

New York Central System
Docket: 11769	8/25/1937	Section: 1
App. Of Beech Creek Creek Extension RR Co. and New York Central RR Co. (Beech Creek Extension BB Co owns RR properties leased to New York Central & Hudson River RR Co. a predecessor of the applicant, the New York Central RR Co.) for abandonment of Beech Creek Extension RR Co. at Carnwath, in Clearfield County, all in state of Pennsylvania, a. distance of 2.33 miles, and abandonment of operation thereof by the New York Central RR Co.
Length: 2.33 miles	1739	Citation: 224 ICC 93

New York Central System
Docket: 11870	11/24/1937	Section: 1
App. for authority to abandon its line of railroad between Canandaigua to Calendonia located in Ontario, Monroe and Livingston Counties, State of New York, a distance of 33.2 miles.
Length: 33.2 miles	1740	Citation: 230 ICC 351

New York Central System
Docket: 11901	1/8/1938	Section: 1
App. for authority to abandon line of railroad between Wellsboro and Antrim, in Count of Tioga, State of Pennsylvania a distance of 12.3 miles.
Length: 12.3 miles	1741

New York Central System
Docket: 12209	10/24/1938	Section: 1
App. of The Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. for authority to abandon line of railroad formerly known as the Middleport & Northeastern Ry. now a part of The Toledo and Ohio Central Ry. Co. extending from Rockville to Calvin, in the Township of Salisbury, Meigs County, Ohio, approximately 2.5 miles.
Length: 2.5 miles	1742	Citation: 230 ICC 459

New York Central System
Docket: 12210	10/24/1938	Section: 1
App. of The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company for authority to abandon the westerly portion of the railroad formerly known as the Bailey Run, Sugar Creek and Athens Railway now a part of The Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company in the Township of Dover, Athens County, Ohio, approximately 1.63 miles.
Length: 1.63 miles	1743	Citation: 230 ICC 481

New York Central System
Docket: 12316	2/6/1939	Section: 1
App. of Boston and Albany R. R. Co. for authority to abandon portion of Athol Branch between Ludlow in Hampden Co. and Bondsville, Hampshire Co. Mass. a distance of 10.08 miles.
Length: 10.08 miles	1744	Citation: 233 ICC 231

New York Central System
Docket: 12429	6/2/1939	Section: 1
Application for authority to abandon its line of railroad extending from Phoenicia to Kaaterskill a distance of 19.2 miles located in Ulster and Greene Counties, a distance of 2.7 miles located in Greene County, all in State of New York.
Length: 19.2 miles	1745	Citation: 233 ICC 700

New York Central System
Docket: 12596	10/16/1939	Section: 1
Application of The Michigan Central Railroad Company to abandon operation and remove track of a part of the so-called Caro Branch of The Michigan Central Railroad Company to Owendale Station, Mich, of about 20.17 miles in length in Tuscola and Huron Counties, Mich.
Length: 20.17 miles	1746

New York Central System
Docket: 12670	11/30/1939	Section: 1
Application to abandon and operate part of the Lansing Branch extending from a point situate approximately one mile south of Logan Street Lansing, Ingham County through Ingham, Eaton and Jackson Counties to Springport, Jackson, County 23.56 miles, Michigan.
Length: 23.56 miles	1747	Citation: 242 ICC 493

New York Central System
Docket: 12796	3/5/1940	Section: 1
Application for Beech Creek Railroad Company for abandonment of a line of railroad between Mitchells and Wynn, Clearfield County, Pa. and permit of the abandonment of operation of by The New York Central Railroad Company, a distance of 1.97 miles.
Length: 1.97 miles	1748	Citation: 240 ICC 97

New York Central System
Docket: 12907	5/22/1940	Section: 1
Application of The Michigan Central Railroad Company to abandon part of the Air Line and operation extending from Haires to O.D. Tower, a distance of 4.1 miles in Jackson County, Mich
Length: 4.1 miles	1749	Citation: 240 ICC 775

New York Central System
Docket: 13062	10/7/1940	Section: 1
Application for authority to abandon a portion of the Fayette Branch from Morenci, Lenawee County, Michigan to Fayette, Fulton County, Ohio approximately 6.61 miles (1.95 miles in Michigan and 4.66 miles in Ohio).
Length: 6.61 miles	1750	Citation: 242 ICC 719

New York Central System
Docket: 13066	10/10/1940	Section: 1
Application of Boston & Albany RR. Co. for abandonment of operation of the Providence Webster & Springfield Railroad known as the Webster Branch of Boston & Albany approximately 11 miles from its Junction with the main line of Boston & Albany R. R. at Webster Junction, Auburn to Webster in Worcester County, Mass.
Length: 11.0 miles	1751	Citation: 244 ICC 533