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The Atlantic Avenue Railroad was a Railroad company is the U.S. State of New York , with a main line connecting Downtown Brooklyn with Jamaica along Atlantic Avenue . It was largely a Streetcar company that operated its own trains, but the Long Island Rail Road operated both streetcars and Steam Train s over its main line, now the Atlantic Branch of the LIRR. HISTORY The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad was the first railroad on Long Island , incorporated on April 25 , 1832 to build from the East River in Brooklyn to Jamaica ., June 2004 Edition The Long Island Rail Road was chartered in 1834 to extend the line east to Greenport ., June 2004 Edition When the Brooklyn and Jamaica was completed on April 18 , 1836 , its line was operated by the LIRR under lease. The original line ran from South Ferry on the Brooklyn waterfront east to a depot at the current 158th Street in Jamaica, with a ferry connection to Lower Manhattan at South Ferry., June 2004 Edition Arrt's Arrchives, Brooklyn & Jamaica Rail Road, Atlantic Avenue Railroad 2 REFERENCES |
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