It again went bankrupt and on January 26, 1884 the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad bought the section southeast of Boston Corners, to which they already had track rights.

In 1907 the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad bought it and on June 25 merged it into the Central New England Railway.

With the 1925 abandonment of the P&E from Ancram Lead Mines northeast to Boston Corners, the P&C served as the sole route east of Pine Plains (it too was closed in 1932).

Prior to 1910, the line used a station on its own alignment west of Smith Street in Poughkeepsie (though mileages were not substantially different).

[2][3] Between Stissing Junction and Pine Plains, the line used trackage rights on the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad (ND&C).