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The Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad was a Horse Car company in the U.S. State of New York , with a main line from Downtown Brooklyn east to Jamaica along Atlantic Avenue . The company was formed in 1860 by the merger of the '''Brooklyn Central Railroad''' with the Brooklyn And Jamaica Railroad .


HISTORY

The Brooklyn Central Railroad was incorporated , 1861 ., May 2004 Edition

The Atlantic Avenue line became the Brooklyn And Jamaica Railway in 1866 and the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in 1872.Felix Reifschneider, History of the Long Island Railroad , 1925, reprinted winter 2001 in ''The Third Rail''


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