Empire United Railways

{{Short description|Interurban railway in New York}}

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| railroad_name=Empire United Railways

| logo_filename=Empire-united-railway 1912.jpg

| logo_size=120

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| locale=Rochester to Syracuse, to Auburn to Oswego

| start_year=1912

| end_year=1917

| successor_line=Empire State Railway

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| hq_city=Syracuse, New York

}}

The Empire United Railways was an interurban railway that was owned by Clifford D. Beebe of Syracuse, New York. The Beebe Syndicate controlled interurbans that ran from Rochester to Syracuse, to Auburn to Oswego on Lake Ontario.{{cite book|author1=Hilton, George W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2zH-zcuU-MC&q=%22empire+state+railroad%22&pg=PA314|title=The Electric Interurban Railways in America|author2=Due, John|year = 2000|publisher=Stanford University Press, 1960, p.314|isbn = 9780804740142|access-date=March 4, 2011}}

The company was consolidated into the Empire State Railway in 1917.{{cite web|title=JeffPo's Empire State Railroad Lantern Page|url=http://www.jeffpolston.com/empirestate.htm|last=Polston|first=Jeff|year=2010|publisher=JeffPo's Universe|access-date=March 3, 2010}}