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The Long Island Traction Company was a Street Railway Holding Company in Brooklyn and Queens , New York City , United States .

In order to get around anti- by May 1893,3 and incorporated the Brooklyn, Queens County And Suburban Railroad on November 24 , 1893 to take it over, as well as the Broadway Ferry And Metropolitan Avenue Railroad and Jamaica And Brooklyn Railroad .4 The increased capitalization was used to convert the companies from Horse Car to Trolley operations.

The LI Traction Company went Bankrupt in mid-18955 after a January Strike .6 The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was incorporated January 18 , 1896 ,7 and took over the LI Traction Company in early February.8


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;From the Brooklyn City Rail Road Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn , 1895, pages 33-34

;From the Brooklyn Heights Railroad

;From the Broadway Railroad Report of the Special Committee of the Assembly Appointed to Investigate the Causes of the Strike of the Surface Railroads in the City of Brooklyn , 1895, pages 52-53

;From the Broadway Ferry And Metropolitan Avenue Railroad

;From the Jamaica And Brooklyn Railroad


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