Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad
The Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad (R & S) was a railway company in New York and Vermont ( United States). It existed as an independent company of 1832 until 1968.
The Company was incorporated on April 14, 1832 and began in the autumn of 1833 with the construction of a standard gauge railway line from Ballston to Troy. They branched off in Ballston from the already existing since 1833 Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad. The line was finally opened to Troy on August 19, 1835 to Waterford and on March 19 in 1836 and had a total length of 41 kilometers. The terminus was located in Troy, first on the west bank of the Hudson River.
On January 1, 1851, the R & S leased the Saratoga & Schenectady. At the same time concluded with the Utica and Schenectady Railroad shared a contract for the route. Together with the other railway companies that cite Troy, the Rensselaer & Saratoga founded on 20 January 1851, the Troy Union Railroad, which built a connecting track between the companies, including a bridge over the Hudson, and a common Central Station on the east side of the river. These plants went on 22 February 1854 in operation and the Rensselaer & Saratoga was able to quit their terminus in Troy.
The Albany and Vermont Railroad, which operated a route from Troy to Albany, could be leased on 15 June 1860 as well as the Saratoga and Whitehall Railroad on April 1, 1865 and the Troy, Salem and Rutland Railroad on 19 June 1865. 1868 merged the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad finally with several railway companies in the region, namely the Saratoga & Whitehall, the Rutland and Whitehall Railroad and Troy, Salem and Rutland. The name was kept. The route network was extended so that in the state of Vermont in Rutland and had to now including the leased tracks a total length of 282 kilometers. 1869 came again ten kilometers to as the Glens Falls Railroad was a branch line from Fort Edward to Glens Falls opened. This railway company was leased from its inception on July 26, 1867 and acquired on August 10, 1906. The R & S also led the operation on the 1870 opened Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad.
On May 1, 1871 leased the Delaware and Hudson Company ( D & H), the R & S. The final merger of the D & H with the R & S, the Saratoga & Schenectady and Albany & Vermont only took place in the course of the reorganization of the D & H in 1968. Nowadays the former network consists of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad still the main route Schenectady - Saratoga Springs Whitehall, the branch line to Glens Falls, the routes Albany - Troy - Mechanicville (all three owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway), Whitehall - Rutland ( in possession of the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad ), Eagle Bridge -Salem and Greenwich Junction - Thompson (both owned by the Batten Kill Railroad ). In Saratoga Springs, the route was umverlegt made to free at construction sites in the city center. The Amtrak operates the Ethan Allen Express, and the Adirondack on the track Schenectady Rutland.
- Former Railroad Company ( New York)
- Former Railroad Company ( Vermont)