Talk:Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation

Full list of operating streetcar companies

• Brooklyn Heights Railroad, opened 1891
  • Brooklyn City Rail Road, opened 1854; leased 1893
    • Bushwick Railroad, opened 1868; leased 1888
    • Brooklyn Crosstown Railroad, opened 1869; leased 1889
      • Calvary Cemetery, Greenpoint and Brooklyn Railroad, opened mid-1880s; leased 1887
    • New Williamsburgh and Flatbush Railroad, opened 1870; leased 1889
      • Greenpoint and Lorimer Street Railroad, opened 1885; leased
    • Grand Street and Newtown Railroad, leased 1890
• Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
  • Broadway Railroad, opened 1859
    • Yates Avenue and Flatbush Railroad, opened 1881; leased 1881 (did this operate separately?)
• Nassau Electric Railroad
  • Atlantic Avenue Railroad
    • South Brooklyn Central Railroad

The following companies merged on July 1, 1929 to form B&QT

• Brooklyn City Railroad
• Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
• Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
• Coney Island and Gravesend Railway
• Nassau Electric Railroad
• South Brooklyn Railway??

Note the lack of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, which stopped operating the Montague Street Line in 1923 or 1924, and no longer leased any other companies. For some reason, the Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad, DeKalb Avenue and North Beach Railroad, New York and Coney Island Railroad, Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad, and Prospect Park and South Brooklyn Railroad are also possibly missing; I don't have a great source though. --NE2 21:38, 10 March 2007 (UTC)