Long Island Traction Company
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The Long Island Traction Company was a street railway holding company
Holding company
A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...

 in Brooklyn
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 and Queens
Queens
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, New York City
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, United States
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.

In order to get around anti-stock watering statutes, the owners of the Brooklyn City Rail Road, capitalized at $6 million, incorporated the Long Island Traction Company in West Virginia
West Virginia
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 in March 1893 with a capital of $30 million. The BCRR-controlled Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Brooklyn Heights Railroad
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad was a street railway company in the U.S. state of New York. It leased and operated the streetcar lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, but started out with the Montague Street Line, a short cable car line connecting the Wall Street Ferry with downtown Brooklyn...

, until then the operator of only the short cable-operated
Cable car (railway)
A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required...

 Montague Street Line, leased the BCRR on June 6, 1893. The LI Traction Company acquired the Broadway Railroad by May 1893, and incorporated the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad
The Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad was a street railway company in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, United States. It originated as a horsecar line and was electrified in 1894....

 on November 24, 1893 to take it over, as well as the Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad and Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad. The increased capitalization was used to convert the companies from horse car to trolley
Tram
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 operations.

The LI Traction Company went bankrupt in mid-1895 after a January strike
Strike action
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. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated January 18, 1896, and took over the LI Traction Company in early February.

Controlled lines

From the Brooklyn City Rail Road
  • Annex Line
  • Bowery Bay Line
  • Bushwick Line
  • Calvary Cemetery Line
  • Corona Line
  • Court Street Line
  • Crosstown Line
    Crosstown Line (Brooklyn surface)
    The Crosstown Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Van Brunt Street and Manhattan Avenue between Red Hook and Long Island City, Queens. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B61 and the B62 bus routes...

  • Cypress Hills Line
  • Flatbush Avenue Line
    Flatbush Avenue Line (surface)
    The Flatbush Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Flatbush Avenue between Downtown Brooklyn and Marine Park...

  • Flushing Avenue Line
  • Fulton Street Line
    Fulton Street Line (Brooklyn surface)
    The Fulton Street Line or East New York Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States along Fulton Street between Fulton Ferry and East New York...

  • Furman Street Line
    Furman Street Line
    The Furman Street Line was a street railway line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Furman Street from Cobble Hill to Fulton Ferry.-History:...

  • Gates Avenue Line
  • Grand Street Line
    Grand Street Line (Brooklyn)
    The Grand Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States, running mostly along Grand Street/Grand Avenue between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens...

  • Greenpoint Line
    Greenpoint Line
    The Greenpoint Line was a streetcar line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. When it stopped operating, it was not replaced by a bus route.-History:The line was opened by the Brooklyn City Railroad in October 1854 to Bushwick Creek....

  • Hamilton Avenue Line
    Hamilton Avenue Line
    The Hamilton Avenue Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Hamilton Avenue between Bay Ridge and Hamilton Ferry at the north end of the avenue in Red Hook...

  • Holy Cross Line
  • Lorimer Street Line
    Lorimer Street Line
    The Lorimer Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Lorimer Street, Franklin Avenue, and Classon Avenue between Bedford–Stuyvesant and Greenpoint...

  • Lutheran Cemetery Line
  • Meeker Avenue Line
  • Myrtle Avenue Line
    Myrtle Avenue Line (surface)
    The Myrtle Avenue Line is a surface transit line on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It was the first streetcar line in Brooklyn, built by the Brooklyn City Railroad, and it is now the B54 bus route, operated by MTA New York City Bus' Fresh Pond Depot in Ridgewood, Queens...

  • Nostrand Avenue Line
    Nostrand Avenue Line (surface)
    The Nostrand Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Nostrand Avenue, as well as northbound on New York Avenue and Bedford Avenue , between Sheepshead Bay and Williamsburg...

  • Putnam Avenue Line
    Putnam Avenue Line
    The Putnam Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Fulton Street, Putnam Avenue, and Halsey Street between downtown Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens...

  • Richmond Hill Line
    Richmond Hill Line
    The Richmond Hill Line is a surface transit line on Myrtle Avenue in Queens, New York City, United States. Once a streetcar line owned by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, it is now the Q55 Myrtle Avenue bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority....

  • Second Avenue Line
  • Third Avenue Line
  • Tompkins Avenue Line
  • Union Avenue Line
    Union Avenue Line (Brooklyn)
    The Union Avenue Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running mostly along Myrtle Avenue, Knickerbocker Avenue, Flushing Avenue, Throop Avenue, and Union Avenue from Ridgewood, Queens northwest to Greenpoint, Brooklyn....



From the Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Brooklyn Heights Railroad
The Brooklyn Heights Railroad was a street railway company in the U.S. state of New York. It leased and operated the streetcar lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, but started out with the Montague Street Line, a short cable car line connecting the Wall Street Ferry with downtown Brooklyn...

  • Montague Street Line


From the Broadway Railroad
  • Broadway Line
    Broadway Line (Brooklyn surface)
    The Broadway Line was a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States along Broadway between Williamsburg and East New York. Originally a streetcar line, it later became a bus route, but no bus currently operates over the entire length of Broadway, with the BMT Jamaica Line...

  • Cypress Hills Line
  • Ralph Avenue Line
    Ralph Avenue Line
    The Ralph Avenue Line is a surface transit line on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Once a streetcar line, it is now part of the B47 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority, and prior to 1995, it was the B78 route; the northern part of the route was part of...

  • Reid Avenue Line
  • Sumner Avenue Line


From the Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad
  • Lutheran Cemetery Branch
  • Metropolitan Avenue Line


From the Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad
  • Jamaica Line
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