sentences:  That railroad was one of ten that merged on 17 May 1853 to form the New York Central Railroad.This Tonawanda was not related to the similarly named Tonawanda Valley Railroad, the Tonawanda Valley Extension Railroad, or the Tonawanda Valley and Cuba Railroad, all three of which were merged into the "new" Tonawanda Valley and Cuba Railroad in 1881.It went bankrupt three years later, after having built sections of its route over unstable quicksand.