Description: The Long Island Rail Road, its History: U.S.Open, Operations to Beaches, Mental Hospitals, Race Tracks, Military Camps, movement of MAIL, Freight, Cattle and Farm Produce, BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT, CONEY ISLAND, MANHATTAN BEACH, BRIGHTON BEACH, ROCKAWAY BEACH, PING-PONG ENGINE, WESTBURY, HEMPSTEAD, CARLE PLACE, CARLL PLACE, N. R. A., NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
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IN JULY 1874 THE SOUTH SIDE RAIL ROAD WAS SOLD IN FORECLOSURE TO THE OWNERS OF THE FLUSHING, NORTH SHORE & CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, ADOLPH, ALFRED AND HERMANN POPPENHUSEN et al. THE NEW CORPORATION WAS NAMED THE SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY OF LONG ISLAND
IN JANUARY 1876 THE POPPENHUSENS PURCHASED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND SHARES - A CONTROLLING INTEREST - OF LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD STOCK. THE FLUSHING, NORTH SHORE & CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN RAILROADS WERE LEASED TO THE LONG ISLAND.
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