Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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-stock watering statutes, the owners of the Brooklyn City Rail Road, capitalized at $6 million, incorporated the Long Island Traction Company in West Virginia in March 1893 with a capital of $30 million. The BCRR-controlled Brooklyn Heights Railroad, until then the operator of only the short cable-operated Montague Street Line, leased the BCRR on June 6, 1893.