New York and Long Island Traction Company

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The New York and Long Island Traction Company was a street railway company in Queens and Nassau County, New York, United States. [1] It was partially owned by a holding company for the Long Island Rail Road and partially by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. [2] [3] The company operated from New York City east to Freeport, [1] Hempstead, [1] and Mineola. [4]

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Lines

The railroad had two main lines.

Mineola Line

The Mineola Line (now the Nassau Inter-County Express n24 bus route) spanned from Queens Village to Mineola (in Nassau County) along Jamaica Avenue.

Brooklyn-Freeport Line

The Brooklyn-Freeport Line spanned from Brooklyn to Freeport (also in Nassau County) and ran mostly along Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Merrick Road. The 17-mile (27 km) route [5] was mostly replaced by the Q7 and Q85 (operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations) and n4 (operated by Nassau Inter-County Express).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bleyer, Bill. "Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile". Newsday. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys". The New York Times. June 21, 1905. p. 14. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Company Profile". Jamaica Buses, Inc. Archived from the original on January 25, 2006.
  4. ↑ Meyers, Stephen L. (2006). Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. Images of Rail. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   0-7385-4526-0.
  5. ↑ Transit Journal (Volume 24 ed.). 1904. p. 932. Retrieved February 26, 2017.


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