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. The road was established in 1912 after the Auburn and Northern Railroad and the Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Rapid Railroad consolidated. A year later, in 1913, Syracuse, Lake Shore and Northern Railroad was merged into the company. The line had an "electric parlor car" named Syracuse in 1912 that made runs between Syracuse and Rochester.